Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25123326-20140708033021/@comment-4091815-20140709194450

You have the STNG thing backwards.

The first seasons Paramount decided to stick close to the original series because it was believed that's what fans wanted. Syndication was a crap shoot and "true fans" had hated when they changed stuff for the first movie. The fact that Paramount gets anything done is a miracle.

You picked Pan Am and The Playboy Club as your examples? weak.

Those shows - one by ABC the other by NBC - were network attempts to COPY something, in this case Mad Men. You picked them because they were period pieces like Mad Men - but they have nothing to do with a writer's vision - because they lacked any vision at all. They were just costumes and pretty people and "Oh look! Remember when people could smoke on planes?"

Lesson - there are ZERO creator-driven shows on network TV (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CW). That's why we get pablum crap like the two you mentioned.

On to George Lucas - he also said FFFFffff YOU to the fans in order to have HIS vision of his iconic work (Star Wars) realized. I didn't like the outcome but respect the vision. Howard the Duck on the other hand WASN'T a Lucas creation. It was a studio-driven shlockfest that Lucas thought would be a good exercise for Industrial Light and Magic. Not his baby.

I'm one of a handful of people who read everything on this site - "The Fans" don't know what they want. If the show were dictated by "The Fans" it would be a sophomoric and schizophrenic mess.