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   YourName to All   
   Re: New American series   
   13 Oct 12 19:04:25   
   
   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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