Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25266931-20161119192054/@comment-28345522-20170328012248

KNN005 wrote: @chishio: "Nothing's completely original anymore" is a cop-out to me. True or not, anyone can attempt originality. Instead most people just like to say "I steal from the best" and shovel the same stuff other people did on a screen or page. I'm going to keep trying to be as original as possible for better or worse. Homages and refs and call back and send-ups are fine. But I keep that stuff to a minimum.

EDIT: Who cares how I write it? The sun doesn't set or rise based on my way of turning a phrase or writing a word. So why was this a big deal? If you subscribe to Foucoalt's theory, nothing original has been made since the very first stories told by man. Everything after that is an amalgamation of ideas constructed by the author. Originality is then up to what is and isn't saturating the market currently. Not so much a matter of "anymore" as "ever was".

If you really break something down into base components, you will always find something that's been used before. So no, nothing is completely, from a void, original. There's execution, which can make a work stand out on it's own and be considered original. Do you dislike all machinimas, no matter what they bring?

It does matter how you write if ends up being incoherent thoughts  and distracting from the actual statement.