From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: dtravel@sonic.net   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek: Am I the Only One?   
      
   Merrick Baldelli wrote:   
   > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:35:37 -0700, Anim8rFSK    
   > wrote:   
   >    
   >> In article ,   
   >> Merrick Baldelli  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:13:42 -0700, Anim8rFSK    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> But we aren't talking brains, and we're barely talking people; we're    
   >>>> talking producers.   
   >>> .Ha ha ha ha...  This is only going to go downhill from here...   
   >>> I can tell and it doesn't take much to mark it as such.     
   >>>   
   >>>> The reason the whole 'remake tv shows' genre came up in the first place    
   >>>> is that if you'd try to sell something original to a producer, he'd    
   >>>> always rephrase it in terms of "it's like..."   
   >>> .There's another reason why...  It's also based on how   
   >>> conservative producers can be as well.  If the idea's too new, they   
   >>> often look at it as a sort of "high risk to failure" which then causes   
   >>> then to shun it out of hand.     
   >> You're going to make me analyze the process aren't you?   
   >    
   > .Only if you feel the need. *chuckling*   
   >    
   >> You've got multiple windows.  "Brand spanking new, beat 'em to the    
   >> punch" is okay, which is why you have half a dozen lame ass "War of the    
   >> Worlds" come out *before* Speilberg's ultra lame ass version, even    
   >> though they're in response to it.  Same notation for any Disney flick,    
   >> like all the Frog movies out right now - see Richie Rich's entire career.   
   >    
   > .I completely forgot about this one...  This is another element   
   > that Hollyweird Producers do... The ol' Keeping Up With The Joneses   
   > mentality that if one of the other movie houses is producing it --   
   > they have to do it as well because if others are doing it -- it MUST   
   > be a sure-fire success.     
   >    
   Its probably not that they assume it _must_ be a sure-fire success so    
   much as they can't take the chance that it will be a major success    
   without them grabbing part of the pie/audience/buzz.  ("Look at how well    
   their Giant Robots movie did!  Why didn't you have one in the    
   pipeline?!")  Whereas if your flavor-of-the-month movie and theirs both    
   flop, you can point that out to the boss as a mitigating factor.  ("We    
   know that the audience wasn't ready for Furry Giant Robots 'cause Mickey    
   Mount Bros. Furry Giant Robot movie tanked too!")   
      
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