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12-10-2011, 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Clarke

I believe the argument is that JC is expected not to use cliches so extensively and so shallowly. Lord of the Rings possibly used cliches, sure; but Tolkien wrote books about every single one of them, with such depth and "osmosis value" that he essentially (re)wrote the genre for all his successors.

As good as Avatar is, I doubt that's going to happen.

FAR inferior yet still popular films already have, for numerous genres, as well as a moderately inferior TV series.

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