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« on: July 28, 2008, 10:06:04 AM »
As interesting as people's ideas here are, there should absolutely be no more retellings of the same story, even with the characters mixed up and rearranged. It still baffles me why anyone would want the straight retelling. We've seen it, and it happened with the Barnabas, Julia, Roger etc. that we all know. The re-arranged reality Zahir talks about could be great as some PT fan fiction.
I like the idea of a daily soap opera again. Bigger budget prime time horror or supernatural shows get weighed down and smothered by all the... I don't know, the seriousness, the effects, the pretension... I need the urgency, life, energy, and seeming spontaneity you get from a daily videotaped show.
I also would need a well-done sequel series, set 37 years later, and don't tell me it couldn't be written so that it was completely new-viewer friendly. An alternative might be setting it just a few years after 1971 so that more original characters could be used and recast. I don't like recasting, I prefer new characters to that, but I'll take recasting if I get an original story that continues and doesn't conflict with the original story.
If the makers of a new DS aren't creative and talented enough to come up with their own new and compelling story within the existing fictional world of DS, then the whole thing's doomed to failure anyway. Re-using the old story is like giving up and admitting you don't have new ideas.