Musing on Reboots among other things..

1. Enjoying the new Vamp Diaries spin-off - "Legacies" - weirdly it reminds me a lot of Buffy, more so than Vamp Diaries or anything else has. I think it's the monster of the week format admist the wackadoodle high school setting. Also Alaric reminds me more of Giles than Dumbledore or anyone else.

2. Been pondering this for a while now..

Some (not all) fans get REALLY upset if another writer reboots or adapts a story they've fallen in love with in a new or different way, with the same characters.
( rather long discussion of rebooted favorite television series and stories with same characters etc as opposed to just exploring the same verse, and why I'm all for that approach, in fact much prefer it to just exploring the verse. )

You ever write something and then think..wait a minute, but what about...

I'm admittedly of two minds on the above. Similar to fanfic. Or cooking for that matter.

How to explain this?

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Sigh. I may delete this tomorrow. Not sure it made a whit of sense. Although let's face it...I'm probably just talking to myself anyhow. ;-)

3. Whoa...Luke Perry died of a stroke at 52