From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: YourName@YourISP.com (Your Name)
Subject: Re: New American series

In article , Daibhid
Ceanaideach  wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2012, James Kuyper  wrote:
> 
> > It isn't the continuity that's the issue; it seems as though no one
> > can make more than a few Batman movies before the next one has to
> > start all over again with his origin story. I can understand a
> > creative person feeling that they want to write about a Batman so
> > different from the previous ones that his origin story must have been
> > significantly different - but that doesn't mean you have to re-tell
> > that story. All you have to do is put a reference to the differences
> > in your new story. If you want to re-use the name "Batman", then you
> > should be able to count on most of your audience being familiar with
> > (and maybe even a little tired of) the origin story, and get on with
> > some completely new story of your own.
> 
> 
> That seems like a different issue to what Your Name was saying though.


Not really. It's all part of the same mess - the complete lack of creative
talent in Hollyweird these days and the massively-over-egoed idiots who
believe they know better than the person who created the idea what it
really is.

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