Dream-Buffy Reboot as Cosmic Horror

         I've read a few things about the reboot.  I liked the idea of Xander as a youtuber because he totally would be, but as interesting as the turn they've done for him could be, I'm slightly disappointed, because you could just update him for the modern era.  BtVS was supposed to be groundbreaking for its time--and it was, from everything I've heard--so, y'know, keep doing that?  Give us a better Xander.  Write everyone as better, more supportive, less "I need to fix all my problems myself".  Deproblematize the problematic things, especially if the comics are being written without Whedon.

         That being said I'm still trying to unpack the dream I had this morning about the supposed reboot.  I didn't dream this whole thing, but when my brain gets on a storytelling roll in a dream it's pretty easy to pick it right back up.  I wasn't going to put it under a cut but since I'm using both the straightforward description + some speculation + commentary, it got long.  Fast.  (also this is the most ironic use of the 'dream of life' tag--)
Warnings: discussion of Whedon (and also Lovecraftian-inspired cosmic horror) and thus racism, sexism, ableism

( interesting dream )