XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.tv   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 12/19/2018 1:23 PM, Kade Green wrote:   
   > Dimensional Traveler  wrote:   
   >> Hollywood doesn't like original ideas.  They are risky.  They might not   
   >> sell and there's a risk of being sued if the idea wasn't original   
   >> enough.  So Hollywood runs the people who do original out of town.   
   >   
   > Couldn't we at least get hybrids like "Criminal Minds meets X-Files"?   
   > (There's actually an anthology book series that does that, though it's   
   > closer to "Criminal Minds does Alphas".  It's called Shadow Unit, with   
   > Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear as editors.  A special bureau of the FBI,   
   > some of whose members have psi powers,  secretly investigates   
   > criminals with psi powers.  The series is very clearly structured as   
   > television episodes.)	   
   >   
   That would be fine as you really don't want to know how many TV series   
   and theatrical movies are pitched as "X meets Y with some Z thrown in".   
      
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