Dru, Steinbeck and the Book of Deer

  You know, I think I'll just say it: I told you so. The new  Buffy  cannot possibly succeed because it's flying in the face of the fates and going the wrong way. It's as simple as that. I am not decrying the class and professionalism of Sarah Michelle Gellar's production team but, to me, it's as if they're trying to find their way through Carlsbad Caverns without a flashlight. ( Buffy the Infantry Officer . 11th November 2025) As also explained in The Glorious 14th , I frankly think Somebody Up There is still stomping hard on you lot because you're still going the wrong way and still seem unable to join the dots together. Unable to work out that that I might just have bought a flashlight, got it right, found Buffy the Vampire Slayer 's true continuation via that lost story arc and (as I myself just realised) continued a certain Xander Harris's own story arc into the bargain. Just to be clear, I know Nicholas Brendon was oft far from perfect and I d...

And so it has come to pass, that just like all the other attempts to get Buffy going again since about 2018,  New Sunnydale has been royally stomped . I'm sorry for Sarah Michelle Gellar but less sympathetic to the rest of you. I was part of an incredible series of events from 2009 onwards which landed me with a vampire flatmate in Partick, an email correspondence with a Buffy cast member, a trek across America to a fateful meeting on Sunset Boulevard, the against-all-odds publication of Dear Miss Landau  and also... I also wrote four novellas about Drusilla, jointly named the Dru Quartet. Two can be found on Archive of Our Own , but the last two have been held back because I believe I found a lost story arc from the original series which was meant to happen but didn't. This is the true continuation of Buffy . At least I think it is. I could put the other novellas in the Archive right now if I wanted, but I don't like self-publishing and I don't want to throw away my...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer : New Sunnydale 's pilot  has been filmed, Sarah Michelle Gellar is working with a crack team to continue ( not reboot) the Buffy saga and Ryan Keira Armstrong is an extremely talented young actress. So what could possibly go wrong? Just about everything, probably. And before anyone else does, I will admit my own bias. Yes, I think they should all do it my way but that's not going to happen. There are about three main reasons which, from my skewed perspective, mean that Buffy II is most likely buggered. The first one's a doozy! As previously explained, an extraordinary and seemingly inexplicable series of events threw myself, Dru and Juliet together, sent me halfway across the world to a mythic meeting on Sunset Boulevard and (it seems) presented me with the lost story arc . The way to continue Buffy , develop many of the existing characters' story arcs in completely unexpected ways and turn the Slayerverse upside down. The odds against all t...