There's a difference in execution depending on how you split them, but I don't think that Buffy didn't rip of Star Trek any more than Smallville would be ripping off Buffy. It's quite possible that sentence doesn't parse. And it may have happened before then, I'm not familiar enough to say.
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Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 7:26:28 am PST #9557 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 04, 2005 7:27:07 am PST #9558 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Want to bet one of the Lex's finds out about Clark ?
Kalshane - Feb 04, 2005 7:28:23 am PST #9559 of 10000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Have we ever even seen Scientist!Lex on Smallville? I don't seem to recall it. I mean, I suppose his investigations into Clark could possibly count but that was mostly other people doing the work for him.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 04, 2005 7:28:44 am PST #9560 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also, what a shame they don't go for the Farscape option instead and keep two Lexes around for a while .
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 7:29:06 am PST #9561 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's been the implication that he's knowledgeable in the field, but not that much hands on, I think.
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 7:30:45 am PST #9562 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Frank, do you know that they don't? I don't know how it wraps up -- I thought it might play into the sudden yet inevitable betrayal, if they wanted.
DebetEsse - Feb 04, 2005 7:32:26 am PST #9563 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I think Buffy was certainly riffing on Star Trek, but that's different, to me, from un-attributed, apparent ripping off of plots.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 04, 2005 7:35:05 am PST #9564 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Frank, do you know that they don't?
Nope, I don't know anything I haven't read here. I just figured that the Farscape gambit would be both riskier, and more creative than Smallville usually gets.
Although, now that I think about it, soap operas keep evil twins around ad infinitum, so who knows.
eta Granted what was risky and creative about the two Crichton saga was that it wasn't an evil twin scenario or a constituant part scenario.
Beverly - Feb 04, 2005 3:57:43 pm PST #9565 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Who knew? Wayne Brady can actually act. And he's almost as tall as Chris Judge.
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 4:48:58 pm PST #9566 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm guessing you don't watch The Chappelle Show, Beverly.