learnedax ([personal profile] learnedax) wrote2006-01-09 09:56 pm

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[livejournal.com profile] tpau is rewatching season two of B5 currently, and she just got to Comes the Inquisitor, and episode I never particularly liked. And in fact I still don't care for it, but wandering through while she had it on made me realize something that should have been quite obvious: the core of Midnight Nation is a reworking of this episode. Obviously the setting is closer to Neverwhere than B5, and there are elements which are new and different, but the central sequence is the same. Hmm.
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[identity profile] alexx-kay.livejournal.com 2006-01-10 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, JMS is not at all above re-using tropes. Which has got me on the verge of dropping Fantastic Four, because Reed Richards should not have the same lines as Delenn.

[identity profile] baron-saturday.livejournal.com 2006-01-10 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Neil Gaiman does it too, and I find it just as annoying. American Gods revisits ground well-trod in Sandman. Now, that I think about it, so does Joss Wheadon. Serenity/Firefly has an awful lot of Buffy in it.

Oh well, they can't all be Alan Moore...