From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: solar.penguin@gmail.com
Subject: Re: New American series

Your Name wrote:

> In article
> <35995d55-867b-4be9-a8a3-bfc9bc72451a@r10g2000vby.googlegroups.com>, solar
> penguin  wrote:
> > Your Name wrote:
> > >
> > > Whether one of these silly "reboot" / "change" shows / movies actually
> > > "works" in terms of being successful or popular is completely irrelevant.
> >
> > In what way irrelevant?  It's definitely relevant to the movie studios
> > or TV companies, who always want a successful or popular product.
>
> Irrelvant to whether or not it fits with what has already been
> established, whether or not it's really part of the existing franchise,

So when you say "irrelevant", you mean it's only irrelevant to the
tiny number of fans who are obsessed with classifying and categorising
everything for its own sake.

Thankfully, most people don't fall into that category, and never will.

> ... Making money or being popular has absolutely nothing to do with
> quality

True, but the franchising process has nothing to do with quality
either, and it has everything to do with making money and being
popular.

>
> Of course, most people are apparently too dumb to understand that names
> actually mean something. They blindly believe that if it says "Batllestar
> Galactica" on the tin, then it must be "Battlestar Galactica", even when
> the people making it are telling them it's really completely different.
> :-\

Most people are intelligent enough to know that words, including
names, are defined by how they're used in practice, not the other way
round.  My screen name is "solar penguin", but I'm not a real penguin
and I don't come from the sun.

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