OT:An Observation

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Oh, no. It's not just the elves, dwarves and orcs crowd. The plotline is spreading. Somebody needs to put most of it out of my misery.

And the sad thing is is that that kind of plotline can actually be done well, but after you see the nth book with that kind of plotline, you just don't really care anymore.

[Atrocities]

Ok now, be nice or I will delete this thread in a bitter tempor tantrum and take my ball and leave!

[Randallw]

Ok, sorry. Didn't mean to take the thread off in a bitter direction.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Sorry. I wasn't exactly bitter, it's just that sometimes I enjoy being bitingly ironic.

Which still doesn't help. I'll stop now.

[Jack Simth]

It's not very common to run across a concept both original and (widely considered) good in a well-established media (either seperately is reasonably common, however), simply because people have been at it for a long while. When something both original and good comes along, it's often a smashing success. Others, seeing that success, copy it, and then the attack of the clones begins. For a while it works - with film, the first few copycats include their own spins and twists, often have better effects due to bigger budgets, better performers, et cetera, and the idea hasn't become old news. After a while, however, the concept is old news, the copycats have flooded the market for that style, people get sick of it, public intrest flags, and budgets folow. It can be cyclical - a copycat of a piece that hasn't been done in fifty years or more is new to the majority of the current audience.

[Randallw]

I have been told that basically all TV and movie plots are based on the same 6 Greek Plays.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

there's theory's like that. Biggest I've heard is 37.

I've always had the sneaking suspision that that owes more to laziness than anything else.