Interesting Simularities
 

I am watching the old Robotech series for the first time in my life, mainly out of couriosity and such, and even though I find a lot of the stories to be poorly written, I am beginning to see that this is indeed a great story.

One thing that really struck me as interesting was the Last episode of the first saga, where Chyron's ship, covered in foleage lifts up from the earth and I am struck by the simularity that it has with the new Stargate Atlantis series. You see, the Wraith, who are also bluish beings of pure evil, had a super huge ship that had been on the planets surface for so long that it too had been covered by folage.

The creators of the series boasted that it had never before been done, a ship covered by trees and vegitation as if it were part of the forest in which it sat, and well here is a 20 year old cartoon that did that very thing.

It is true, it has all been done before. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

I often wonder if there will ever be another original, truly monumentally original idea ever again.

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Nope, there's nothing new. But there's still stuff that's new to me and the human race and there's still stuff that's interesting. Because wether something is interesting is an attitude. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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yea...

where would star trek be without Herman Melville,

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Old ruins of various whatevers covered in foliage is a pretty old story concept, not to mention that it happens in real life a lot.

PvK

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Probably Not...

But at least these simmilar moments always bring back some sort of nostalgia http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Why cry about it? An over-emphasis on "new" and "original" is pretty much what led to modern art. Do you really want movies and TV going down the same road? Personally, copycats are great if they are done tastefully, well, and with enough variations to keep things from getting boring.