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   solar penguin to All   
   Re: New American series   
   13 Oct 12 12:58:28   
   
   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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