excellent point! TV writers write spec scripts for currently-running shows, then shop those scripts around to similar genre shows
that's how you get gigs https://t.co/gHhkVERIwa
— bletchley punk (@alicegoldfuss) January 16, 2021
Yep! It’s not magic. It’s a production process like anything else. Quite often, scripts are written for one show or movie, and then adapted into an altogether different show or film. This happens all the time.
In other words, it’s fanfic all the way down. The reason it was besmirched is because fanfic as we currently think of it was mostly produced by women in our recent cultural history.
In the past, it was produced by nearly everyone as just how culture proceeded.