10 Biggest Changes In Boom! Studios’ Buffy Reboot

Then:

The Master, the Big Bad of season one, represented a classical and monstrous vampire. You could imagine that he roomed with Nosferatu in college. The character is one of the least popular villains in the show’s run. Watching back in retrospect, The Master and his arc come off as hammy.

Now:

The Master is no more. In his place is a familiar foe now known as The Mistress. The rebooted Drusilla is far from the TV shows kooky Dru who was driven insane by Angelus. The Mistress is the one calling the shots, with Spike as her faithful underling, and is Buffy’s first credible threat.

Drusilla’s master plan is to open the Hellmouth and turn the men of Sunnydale into her obedient but mindlessly violent army. However, her side-scheme involves 21st century tech. When Buffy loses her phone in a graveyard scuffle, Drusilla uses it to flirt with Xander, luring him into her grasp. Relying on tact rather than violence, she empathises with his sadness and persuades him she can make it disappear.