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Complete This Phrase / Fill In The Blank(s) - Blackmailing Liz-Intro to Barnabas-Kidnapping Maggie-Intro to Julia / Re: Episode #0334
« on: November 05, 2012, 03:24:23 AM »That damn pen!!!
(Yeah right, the Pen explains it all!!)
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That damn pen!!!
i could be wrong but what i think is being said here is that most of the plots of the OS were cribbed from other literary sources...
jane eyre, frankenstien, rebecca, the turn of the screw, the picture of dorian gray, the telltale heart...all of these stories were rewritten into the DS framework utilizing it's setting and characters but were not exactly "original" stories being told.
the end result felt very fresh and original but the writers heavily referenced other material.
Telling a new story is what's exciting, not re-telling stories.That suggests that very little of the original series is exciting.
The team of Sebastian Cabot and Doug McClure
...so why is it so difficult to retell this tale in a successful way? it's a great story, but is it too colossal and unwieldy to reign into a digestable story to attract the attention of a new audience?