Which Spin-Off would you prefer?
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Originally posted by thefrey:
Flame, please.Pander? How so? How do we not know that the original movie was not *The Vision* and that the story line was not sillied up a bit for greater series acceptance.
The original movies had tons of humour in them, but it was a sly, black kind of humour which I loved. I would dearly like to see a more serious series with flashes of gem like humour in it, rather that the pie in the face stuff that some of the series episodes resorted to. I donot think this would be pandering.
I’ll tell you exactly how so. If a writer has a good idea but ditches it because he thinks the fans wouldn’t like it, that’s bad. He’s not being true to himself. Even worse is if the writer mechanically writes a new tv show because a specific story is demanded by the fans. I writer writes what he writes becauses a feeling inside tells him what the story is. Sure, he can take suggestions. And he can also have a go at writing a specific story that is demanded of him and not of his own inspiration. But the results can be less than satisfying.
To create a specific story on-demand is awful for a writer! It’s extremely difficult to pull off in a pleasing manner. I wouldn’t want to push that on anyone. Writers “discover” stories and are not dictated by legions of fans. You don’t see people lobbying Stephen King for a specific book.
Do you understand what I’m getting at? Television writers can write something and then later decide if it’s worthy of putting on tape. Not the other way around.
The Beans are going to write what they write because they want to. Not because [i]we[/i] want them to. That would be pandering and would be less than worthy.