You can already bet it's going to be a show focused on "today's issues" with fighting vamps being in the background.
I only hope they won't try to push the new slayer as Buffy, just start something new (I know, it's A LOT to ask).
Yeah, even the OG film and series were mostly about the struggles of teen girls, not REALLY about vampire hunting, but I get yah, these days "genre" shows are a thin veneer scrapped over tawdry and hamfisted social commentary.
The thing with 'Buffy' was the juxtaposition of the typical "Valley girl" stereotype thrown into mortal combat with the undead. Facing adult responsibilities, having to suddenly care for others, the world is larger than your hairspray poof, stuff like that. The show obviously took it much farther and SMG was never as visibly superficial as KS (given she was the more mature version of that same character that is to be expected). So if they still call it Buffy then you'd expect it to be an IG influencer type (like the chick from the recent Jumanji films) or even an OF girl if they really wanna be adult, who then has to 'grow up' into the real world.
For me, this character concept wouldn't work if it's the usual snarky, always right, precocious, anti-establishment, feminazi, woke, "drop yah male priviledge, ya'll", girl boss character as there isn't really anywhere for that character to go. Giving her super powers is really just gonna further enforce her skewed world view because she now has LESS accountability and consequences for her actions (basically a more annoying and intolerable version of Faith). Wouldn't surprise me AT ALL if this is what is pitched, along with some artwork of a quasi-emo indeterminate ethnicity girl with the sides of her head shaved, rainbow hair, a nose ring, stepping on a pair of pom-poms to show her defiance of "female gender roles"; while a cowardly beta male Watcher cowers behind her and her rag tag group of LGBT+ color palate friends complete with wheelchair bound trans science nerd, butch lesbian football team captain, perpetually 'friend zoned' art major "male ally", and, why not at this point, a talking squid that lurks in the school library to dispense ancient folk wisdom.
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