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Originally Posted by Zeke
look at the success of neo-Doctor Who, which made a clean start without ignoring anything that came before.
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Actually, they only ignored the bits which made the old series worth watching - like decent writing, dialogue and/or direction.
And if you've seen what the future holds with series 3, even you would vomit.
@Burt: Now you know how I feel towards Russell Touchwood Davies.
As for political parties and their promises, see also: Hilaire Belloc's famous poem:
"That Accurs'd Power that stands on Privilege
And goes with Women and Champagne and Bridge
Broke - and Democracy resumed her reign
(Which goes with Women, and Bridge, and Champagne)"
@others:
Focusing on profit means selling out the ideals and the core of the programme, and leaving the empty husk, adding in ephemeral crap that makes you want to puke, and shoving it in front of the chav unwashed masses who will lap it up because it's got shiny SFX and so much sap it's drowning the cast, coupled with celebrity writers who have no idea what they're doing with the show. You can't play to the fans and go solely for profit. You can balance both, or crash the show in five years at the outside when people get bored with it. And that applies universally.
Oh, and as a closing comment, the Great Gatsby is dreadful, and only mindblowing in how stupendously dull it is to read.