Authors who are asked about their influences and go back hundreds of years to Shakespeare and Chaucer and the Iliad are cowards beneath contempt Authors who openly admit that they're influenced by big pop culture franchises (that might sue them) meet the bare minimum of decency
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Yeah look if you take the protagonist of The Worst Witch and replace her with Tim Hunter that's it, that's Harry Potter
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Weird how it's just DC comics Books Of Magic which was popular among her demographic (Neil Gaiman is an influence) but she claims to have never read it. Right, yeah, macbeth
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Also hilarious to reference Shakespeare as a reference when the metatheme running under all Elizabethan theatre is that gender and identity are performances. They're crossdressing dramas...
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And it's even worse because if 2 people did come up with the same thing based on similar unrelated source material that'd be interesting. In reality, I gotta assume they're lying like most do.
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It's the same thing w/George Lucas and Joseph Campbell, despite the clear influences from Herbert, Asimov, Jack Kirby, etc. It's weird but I sort of like TROS b/c Palpatine is basically just Darkseid in that movie. Like Terrio had to point out the connections.
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But she never had a character as absolutely magnificent as Tim Curry.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUhuPn8_d0Q …
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