XPost: rec.arts.drwho, rec.arts.tv   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 23/11/2025 8:50 am, Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2025-11-22 11:28:38 +0000, Blueshirt said:   
   >> Your Name wrote:   
   >>> On 2025-11-20 15:26:10 +0000, RICHARD perin said:   
   >>>> In article   
   >>>> <6c9fdff618ba6b2cf876190900442a26@hamiltonhall.info>,   
   >>>> john@hamiltonhall.info wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I'm glad its dead, much better than seeing it violated   
   >>>>> time and time again.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Like Star Trek.   
   >>>   
   >>> And Batman.   
   >>> And Superman.   
   >>> And Knight Rider.   
   >>> And Battlestar Galatica.   
   >>> And ...   
   >>>   
   >>> Now there's a new Stargate show been announced, so there   
   >>> goes another franchise down the toilet.  :-(   
   >>   
   >> Is it the franchises changing for the worse... or just us getting   
   >> older and not liking change?!  ;-)   
   >   
   > For me it's definitely all the idiotic changes that simply make the "new   
   > version" a very different show, so why did they bother re-using the same   
   > title? They may as well just have made a completely new show to begin   
   > with (e.g. "Warship Gigantica") and say it is very loosely based on the   
   > original.   
   >   
   > Almost always these silly remakes / reboots / reimaginings are done by   
   > some new egotistical fool who thinks they know better then the person   
   > with the talent to come up with the original, as to how it "should have   
   > been done".   
      
   Hmmm!! (As this IS a 'Doctor who' newsgroup I'm reading this in ....)   
   I'm thinking you were thinking about Chris Chibnall there, Your Name!!   
      
   > There's usually some nonsense excuse that re-using the same name means   
   > they have a "built-in audience", but that's utter rubbish - the changes   
   > mean the original fans won't like it, and people who didn't like the   
   > original are unlikely to watch something with the same name.   
   >   
   > Even resurrected shows (including prequels, sequels, and spin-offs) with   
   > mostly the same cast and crew rarely work because everyone has changed   
   > and time has moved on, so it's never really the same "magic" as it was   
   > the first time around.   
   >   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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