Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20170122203703/@comment-25926288-20170123132320

I find no need to bash the writers before we eve see it. There are many shows with many similarities. That's just a fact of life. Is it necessary? Nope, but some shows do it in homage to others. So, I'd suggest waiting and watching to see if what it is. "Rip-off", "Copying", "Paying Homage", all sort of have a similar base with small deviations in definitions. There's' hardly anything original aymore, just manipulations of what's done before (with creative twists).

Are there similarities between Buffy and Once? Yeah, but I think they do so blatantly and aren't keeping it some undisclosed secret. Are there similarities between Once and Lost? Yep, I mean they pretty much should hire the whole cast while there at it. (Joking.) So, it's not a negative to "use what works", so to speak. If Buffy and Lost are successful shows than it's not hard to see why they'd emulate them. (And no, the poor execution and timely shoddy writing isn't some reason otherwise because I doubt the writers see themselves are subpar.)