reboot != revision
- Thread starter AJBryant
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Oy.
Like any complex process, like the lives a story draws from, a story once "rebooted" will follow a different path from the original. To do otherwise would be ridiculous.
Who just wants to see a good movie?
It's one of those code-word terms (like "family values" -- remember that one?) which has no real meaning of its own but is supposed to mean whatever the speaker says it means right now, rendering it completely and totally useless for purposes of intelligent discussion or information exchange.
That's the literal meaning, sure. But there's no clear consensus that I've noticed what it ACTUALLY means. People call the new BSG a "reboot," and that's certainly not just a start-up from the dead with no significant changes.
If new BSG is a reboot, then Trek XI should not be. How bout that?
They might have just played footsie with their shoes off.
For all we know, that IS how Scalosions fuck.
EDIT: Boo, I just noticed.
No more Frosty the Vorta!
If new BSG is a reboot, then Trek XI should not be. How bout that?
They might have just played footsie with their shoes off.
For all we know, that IS how Scalosions fuck.
EDIT: Boo, I just noticed.
No more Frosty the Vorta!
Reboot (noun) 1. To restart a computer after a crash or error has happened. This puts the computer back to a state just before the crash happened. 2. To start from a place before things went horribly wrong. "You need to reboot this company in order to save it." 3. A TV seires by Mainframe Entertainment that takes place inside a Computer, more precicly, Cyberspace. 4. In Hollywood it means to go back to square one of a franchise, like what was done for Batman, Superman and James Bond recently.
That's the "concept of the word 'reboot'" in computer terms only.
If that's what it meant to people in the entertainment business, the word wouldn't exist in that context because it's usefulness would be so extraordinarily limited.
Good point.
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