They Copied It, So It Sucks: Difference between revisions

* A newer example that will likely only get worse: there is a good deal of ire directed at ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' by people claiming it's a rip-off of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]](2004 TV series)|the reimagined ''Battlestar Galactica'']].

** [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|The original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'']] still gets much criticism today for ripping off ''[[Star Wars]]''. No wonder the [[Darker and Edgier]] remake received rave reviews as it strayed from being a typical show [[Recycled in Space|about a space colony]] as far as possible.

* A possible case is ''[[Robin of Sherwood]]'' and the later ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]''. The second series of ''[[Robin of Sherwood]]'' ended with Robin's death, and there is speculation that the second season finale of ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' chose to kill off Maid Marian in the attempt to emulate what the creators' believed was the "shock value" of the predecessingpredecessor series, except of course that they killed Marian instead of Robin. The key difference was that the former series had to write around [[Absentee Actor|Michael Praed's]] decision to leave the show, whereas Marian's death in the later series was a creative decision and had nothing to do with actress Lucy Griffith (despite later attempts to blame the decision on her). Although ''[[Robin of Sherwood]]'' brought in a [[Legacy Character|"new" Robin Hood]], neither series survived more than one more season without their leads.

* Any pair of young, male presenters on British television will be compared to ''[[Ant and Dec]]'' and accused of trying to copy them. Ironically, many of the comparisons aren't by Ant and Dec fans, but by people who dislike them and therefore conclude that anyone remotely similar to them is exactly like them.