XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From: mr@sandman.net   
      
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    Wiseguy  wrote:   
      
   > Prequels don't ruin a franchise, whether you like them or not.   
      
   Well, then JJ Abrams can't, either. I was responding to YourName that   
   claimed that JJ Abrams would destroy the "real Star Wars", whatever that   
   means.   
      
   And I think you mean that prequels can't ruin the originals - the   
   franchise as such is the sum of all its parts, and if some of those   
   parts are bad, it certainly can ruin the franchise as a whole. The   
   original movies aren't ruined though.   
      
   > They only tell what's gone before.  Sequels, on the other hand, can   
   > ruin a franchise by turning the story in stupid directions.   
      
   Huh? That makes no sense at all. The prequels can introduce directions   
   that ruins the franchise just as much as sequels. Like introducing   
   "midichlorians" that if you take it into consideration ruins Yodas   
   entire sensei talk on Dagobah.   
      
      
      
      
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