I was waiting for you to reply qwahir, the only other big Whedon fan that I know of on this site.

I don't know, I have a hard time when characters are recast as well. I saw the show before I ever bothered watching the original movie, and I just find it hard to see anyone other than Gellar playing Buffy. The same if they tried to recast Willow or Giles or any of the other characters.

I've had that problem with any sort of sequel movies that don't use the original actors.