User blog comment:Princess Callie/Spinoffs and Blacklisted Subjects./@comment-5025667-20131220203100/@comment-24486926-20131220204525

If they actually do manage to tell it better; yes. But therein lies the issue. Oftentimes, they don't.

I remember when I banned Sonic.exe at Spinpasta; it overcrowded the category, but that wasn't the biggest issue; the issue was that each one was either taken completely out of context or just a retelling of the exact same story over and over again. The biggest issue with the constant violations of the no spinoff rule is that they're classic examples of complete rehashing of pastas that are commonly used as "make your own" pasta templates.

Let's take, for example, once again, Lost Episode pastas. What did many back in the 2000's consist of? Hyper realistic blood. After it became cliche, it often involved some character killing off multiple other characters, or some other often used context. Eventually, every lost episode pasta became nothing but a blend together of the same things over and over again.

See my earlier reply to Sloshed. I mentioned an excellent Spinpasta I had found.