XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 9/1/2014 2:05 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article <5404b7a3$0$36570$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Dimensional   
   > Traveler  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 8/31/2014 11:12 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> In article , Azathoth   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> 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?   
   >>>   
   >>> Oh God. Here we go again.  :-\   
   >>>   
   >>> There is no opinion.   
   >>>   
   >>> Fact: The reboot re-uses the old name.   
   >>>   
   >>> Fact: The reboot is (almost always) very different to the original,   
   >>>        in some cases the people making it even say so themselves!   
   >>>   
   >> Doing something completely different is sometimes the reason and point   
   >> for those making it.   
   >   
   > Then use a different name ... it ain't rocket science: different   
   > products have different names.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >> Also the creative people frequently are forced to use it and alter their   
   >> vision to fit when the money people demand they use the old name for the   
   >> recognition value.   
   >   
   > There is no "recognition value" (except to deaf and blind morons) when   
   > you make lots of changes and make what in reality is a different   
   > product. People who liked the original will be expecting more of the   
   > same. You don't buy a jar of "Strawberry Jam" unless you want   
   > strawberry jam.   
   >   
   > If the original is so worthless that they have to make lots of changes,   
   > then why re-use the same name?? People who didn't like the original   
   > would be incredibly stupid to watch something with the same name ...   
   > but then apparently the vast majority of the human race *ARE*   
   > incredibly stupid. You don't buy a jar of "Strawberry Jam" and expect   
   > to get tomato sauce.   :-\   
   >   
   > The *ONLY* reason for re-using the same name that even remotely   
   > approaches being "sensible" is because the greedy swines simply want to   
   > extend the copyright and stop anyone else making a properly fitting   
   > addition to the franchise.   
   >   
   Calm down, I was agreeing with you.   
      
   As for the strawberry jam analogy, the tomato sauce makers are   
   deliberately trying to trick people into buying their product by   
   labeling it "Strawberry Jam".  Yes, its stupid but the studio execs only   
   care about money and do think the public is stupid.  Unfortunately there   
   is a significant segment of the public that continues to act as evidence   
   supporting that view.  (For example, the two latest "Star Trek" movies.)   
      
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