XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: azathoth@outer.darkness.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:07:50 +1200, Your Name wrote:   
      
   >> Again, why do you care what they call it or how original it is?   
   >> Nobody's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to watch it.   
   >   
   > A. Re-using the same name for a very different product is   
   >    moronically stupid. NAMES HAVE MEANING.   
      
   Again, that's your opinion. If you don't watch it, why does that opinion   
   matter?   
      
   > B. It destroys whatever is left of the original franchise,   
      
   Huh??? You really must be joking. If what you said was true, when "The   
   Amazing Spider-Man" appeared in theaters, the Tobey Maguire trilogy would   
   have ceased to exist, but half the cable channels I get keep rerunning   
   them seemingly every damn weekend, and the copy of 3 I have still is   
   sitting in my DVD rack. I also have the complete collection of Star Trek:   
   The Original Series, which I was able to obtain long *after* TNG started   
   airing back in the 80s.   
      
   >    including any even remote hope of a getting properly fitting   
   >    addition.   
      
   That also doesn't make sense. First of all, you can indeed get   
   installments of questionable style followed by a better one -- the   
   silliness factor in Superman III and Superman IV was gone again in   
   Superman Returns, and lots of people think Man of Steel was as good as   
   Superman II. And second, if there ever is a "properly fitting addition"   
   you'll come here and start whining that it "destroyed the franchise" and   
   "why couldn't they make something *original* for once?"   
      
   > C. It's sheer laziness and over-egoed stupidity to   
   >    butcher someone else's hard work.   
      
   How can you "butcher" something without destroying the original, just by   
   making something similar but new that stands beside it?   
      
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