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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
In article <10fvpsk$1on48$1@dont-email.me>,
Your Name wrote:
>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.
>
Quotefile!
>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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