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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] Simon touched on why I think a reboot wouldn't work...because it would ultimately be pointless. The Marvel Ultimate Line is doing this at the moment, starting from the beginning and retelling the story. So we've got a new version of Spidey's black suit, a new version of the Dark Pheonix storyline, and stuff like that. This creates two problems: 1/ The appeal is in redoing old stories and doing them better. However, that's also the reason why it fails. So they reboot Star Trek. We get to meet the Borg for the first time and the continuity is not messed up. Woo, and indeed pee. What have we gained? Not much. 2/ Once they've told all the classic Marvel stories, the universe line will end up exactly where the current line is. With the same problems of hideous amounts of backstory. So do we then reboot it again? The mainstreem Marvel universe has gone on for (essentially) 40 solid years without a reboot. DC has. And you wouldn't pick up a Superman comic and say "thank god this is all much less confusing that the Fantastic 4". Rebooting strikes me as a lazy cop out, and a chance of trying to recapture past glories without actually doing anything new. Sure, we get 300 years of history that are consistent, but that doesn't mean we get good stories. (Besides, wasn't TNG pretty much a reboot anyway? They changed the status quo fairly drastically [the Klingons], originally refused to use lots of TOS aliens [Romulans and Vulcans], intentionally made Picard completely different from Kirk, and set the whole thing 100 years in the future where the basic groundwork was the same but many of the details had changed.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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