I keep wondering whether he's going for trying to make the watchers work out how the original plot can be weaved into the new version. As if he's not actually GOING for mystery per se, because he's presuming that people KNOW what happens, so the interest lies rather in how he's going to link back to canon? (I have my own issues with some of the rapes of canon, but that's a different matter.)
As far as cliched is concerned - look, it's basically fanfic-on-screen, and let's face it, there's a hell of a lot of very cliched but very popular fanfic out in the world. Why does it surprise you that this one is popular?
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Date: 2012-01-09 03:20 pm (UTC)As far as cliched is concerned - look, it's basically fanfic-on-screen, and let's face it, there's a hell of a lot of very cliched but very popular fanfic out in the world. Why does it surprise you that this one is popular?