Not to mention, Star Trek is an elegant, simple idea that can undergo the strain of countless interpretations and still maintain the integrity of the central concept and the appeal of the audience.
Even Enterprise? Come on. I was always a huge Star Trek fan. Grew up on Next Generation, rewatched TOS when I could, the latter half of DS9 was some of the best TV out there, Voyager was ok. But Enterprise? That killed Trek for me. It was bollocks.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is.... a valley girl fighting vampires.... Seriously. I say, just let Whedon have his little universe to play in, and when he's done with it or the audience just stops caring, PLEASE just let the license fade into obscurity.
I'm sorry, but saying thats all there was to Buffy shows how little you watched or knew about the show. That was the basic concept of the film. The series took that plot and developed a completely new idea of "High School is Hell" as Lynx previously mentioned. It took concepts that many have experienced, including being ignored (in "
Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight"), peer pressure ("
The Pack") and many others and twisted them into a new monster or problem for Buffy to deal with. As time passed on the show took that concept an applied it to later life, for example the a girl losing her virginity and finding out the guy is a soulless jerk? Enter Angelus. As the group aged, they developed more 'grown up' issues, like getting married, losing a loved one, even paying the bills. All of these were well represented in the show.
The Body, the episode centred around the death of Buffy's mother was exceptionally well written, focused on no monsters at all and just the reactions of the group to her death.
As others have mentioned, this is an attempt to cash in on the Vampire trend started by the utter bollocks that was Twilight. Yes it gets me angry that my favourite show is apparently going to be raped as a cash cow, but I fail to see the comparisons between the recent Trek reboot and this. The original Star Trek wasn't a series of my (or indeed most of the people on this boards) generation. It was of our parents. Buffy is our generation. That's the difference. It is a series still fresh in it's fans minds, not a nostalgic rose tinted blur. Plus, Buffy isn't in need of a reboot. It's time line hasn't suffered endless recons and changes. Unlike Star trek and subsequent spinoffs, in which the time line looks like something a glass-blower with hiccups would make.
Although, while we are reinventing and rebooting series that are still being used, why don't we make a Lost movie? That would be great. Of course we will have to get rid of the original cast and start from scratch, but that ok. We could recast Jack Bauer while we are at it. A brand new 24 would be awesome. We could call it 48.
