thread: 2006-03-01 : BSG
On 2006-03-02, John Laviolette wrote:
I find this a little bit odd.
Not reimagining a TV series in your own way. That's normal. NOT THINKING IT'S NORMAL, that's odd. Because greek playwrights did that with greek mythology, and every writer since then has done the same thing, retelling or recombining already existing stories in new ways.
And yet, there's a widespread assumption that a remake or an adaptation should be exactly the same as the original, but with updated techniques. I hear this not just from gamers, but from *everyone*. Some people sound resigned to it and quote the factoid that "there are only 24 stories" (Wrong, there are only 24 possible story shapes, using a specific analytic system.)
So yeah, I'm excited by the excitement over the new BSG, and posts like this one, because it's like everyone's waking up and realizing "YEAH. You can tell THE SAME STORY but in a DIFFERENT WAY. And it's all good!"
I wonder who the prince is who kissed the 21st century and woke it from the witch's spell?
This makes ecb go "shakespeare re-interpretations"
My theory is that mass production has woed us all to looking at interchangeablity as the highest virtue. Now we've gone past the apex of that and realized that organic individuality es gut too. Wabi sabi/lo fi aesthetics here we come. : )
This makes NinJ go "Rock on, Em."
