XPost: rec.arts.drwho, rec.arts.tv   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-11-23 09:47:57 +0000, Daniel70 said:   
   > 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!!   
      
   Not necessarily. There are many franchises that have been ruined by   
   silly reboots, remakes, and reimaginings, many long before Chibnall   
   (aka Chib-nail-in-the-coffin) joined Doctor Who.   
      
   Earlier examples include the idiotic "Team Knight Rider" and the awful   
   "Knight Rider 2000" movie. Plus of course the ridiculous Americanised   
   "Doctor Who" movie with Paul McGann.   
      
   It isn't just TV / movies either. The comic book industry has ruined   
   many of its own franchises with silly changes too.   
      
      
      
   >> 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.   
      
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