Buffy fans, watch the above clip from the proposed Buffy: Animated Series at your own peril. As much as I’m enjoying the season eight comics, it doesn’t quite compare to hearing the original actors (and the frighteningly SMG-sounding Giselle Loren) bringing the characters to life.

The animation, which evokes Justice League Unlimited, is nicely stylized, letting Buffy do things even the best stunt double couldn’t pull off in live-action. And several scripts were already completed by Buffy writers such as Jane Espenson, Steve DeKnight and Doug Petrie. But after the show’s network, Fox Kids, died, it was never able to find a new home.

“We had a great animation director, great visuals, six or seven hilarious scripts from our own staff—and nobody wanted it. I was completely baffled. I felt like I was sitting there with bags of money and nobody would take them from me,” creator Joss Whedon told the Hollywood Reporter in 2003.

Although Buffy has managed to come back from the dead in the past, the animated series has seemingly little hope of being re-animated.