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* ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' showrunner Dean Georgaris told ''The Quantum Leap Podcast'' that he had watched every episode of the original ''Series/QuantumLeap'' some time ago, but made the conscious decision to avoid rewatching it when it was time to make the sequel series so that it wouldn't influence its direction. This definitely shows: while there are a few characters from the original, and the central concept of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong is still in place, the rules and lore of leaping are completely different, even though the show is a [[SequelSeries continuation]] and not a remake. Most notably, Ben simply takes over the bodies of the people he leaps into instead of switching places with them like Sam did in the original series, so there is no Waiting Room at Project Quantum Leap for the leapees to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin wait]] in, and Ziggy is just a computer program (and an "it") without a mind, voice and diva-like personality of her own like she had in the original (where she was a "she"). And the changes are not explained or mentioned. There is also an ongoing StoryArc involving what's going on back home at the Project itself, whereas the original was an {{anthology}} with ''very'' few connected stories.

* ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' showrunner Dean Georgaris told ''The Quantum Leap Podcast'' that he had watched every episode of the original ''Series/QuantumLeap'' some time ago, but made the conscious decision to avoid rewatching it when it was time to make the sequel series so that it wouldn't influence its direction. This definitely shows: while there are a few characters from the original, and the central concept of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong is still in place, the rules and lore of leaping are completely different, even though the show is a [[SequelSeries continuation]] and not a remake. Most notably, Ben simply takes over the bodies of the people he leaps into instead of switching places with them like Sam did in the original series, so there is no Waiting Room at Project Quantum Leap for the leapees to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin wait]] in, and Ziggy is just a computer program (and an "it") without a mind, voice and diva-like personality of her own like she had in the original (where she was a "she"). And the changes are not explained or mentioned. There is also an ongoing StoryArc involving the Project itself, whereas the original was an {{anthology}} with ''very'' few connected stories.

* ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' showrunner Dean Georgaris told ''The Quantum Leap Podcast'' that he had watched every episode of the original ''Series/QuantumLeap'' some time ago, but made the conscious decision to avoid rewatching it when it was time to make the sequel series so that it wouldn't influence its direction. This definitely shows: while there are a few characters from the original, and the central concept of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong is still in place, the rules and lore of leaping are completely different. Most notably, Ben simply takes over the bodies of the people he leaps into instead of switching places with them like Sam did in the original series, so there is no Waiting Room at Project Quantum Leap for the leapees to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin wait]] in, and Ziggy is just a computer program (and an "it") without a mind, voice and diva-like personality of her own like she had in the original (where she was a "she"). And the changes are not explained or mentioned. There is also an ongoing StoryArc involving the Project itself, whereas the original was an {{anthology}} with ''very'' few connected stories.

* ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' showrunner Dean Georgaris told ''The Quantum Leap Podcast'' that he had watched every episode of the original ''Series/QuantumLeap'' some time ago, but made the conscious decision to avoid rewatching it when it was time to make the sequel series so that it wouldn't influence its direction. This definitely shows: while there are a few characters from the original, and the central concept of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong is still in place, the rules and lore of leaping are completely different. Most notably, Ben simply takes over the bodies of the people he leaps into instead of switching places with them like Sam did in the original series, so there is no Waiting Room at Project Quantum Leap for the leapees to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin wait]] in, and Ziggy is just a computer program (and an "it") without a mind, voice and diva-like personality of her own like she had in the original (where she was a "she"). And the differences are not explained or mentioned. There is also an ongoing StoryArc involving the Project itself, whereas the original was an {{anthology}} with ''very'' few connected stories.

* ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' showrunner Dean Georgaris told ''The Quantum Leap Podcast'' that he had watched every episode of the original ''Series/QuantumLeap'' some time ago, but made the conscious decision to avoid rewatching it when it was time to make the sequel series so that it wouldn't influence its direction. This definitely shows: while there are a few characters from the original, and the central concept of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong is still in place, the rules and lore of leaping are completely different. Most notably, Ben simply takes over the bodies of the people he leaps into instead of switching places with them like Sam did in the original series, so there is no Waiting Room at Project Quantum Leap for the leapees to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin wait]] in, and Ziggy is just a computer program without a mind, voice and diva-like personality of her own like she had in the original. And the differences are not explained or mentioned. There is also an ongoing StoryArc involving the Project itself, whereas the original was an {{anthology}} with ''very'' few connected stories.

* ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' showrunner Dean Georgaris told ''The Quantum Leap Podcast'' that he had watched every episode of the original ''Series/QuantumLeap'' some time ago, but made the conscious decision to avoid rewatching it when it was time to make the sequel series so that it wouldn't influence its direction. This definitely shows: while there are a few characters from the original, and the central concept of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong is still in place, the rules and lore of leaping are completely different. Most notably, Ben simply takes over the bodies of the people he leaps into instead of switching places with them like Sam did in the original series, so there is no Waiting Room at Project Quantum Leap for the leapees to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin wait]] in, and Ziggy is just a computer program without a mind and voice of her own like she had in the original. There is also an ongoing StoryArc involving the Project itself, whereas the original was an {{anthology}} with ''very'' few connected stories.

** Creator/RussellTDavies's idea for Series 1 was that it should be like you remember ''Doctor Who'' being. This included exaggerating things that weren't really that noticeable in the original series, like turning the Daleks from an evil and destructive, but ultimately surmountable, species into ''the vilest creatures in the entire universe that absolutely do not stop until [[OmnicidalManiac everything is dead]]'' to match how they'd felt to the audience as children, and upgrading the Doctor's usual lack of carrying a gun to an [[DoesNotLikeGuns anti-gun moral code]] (the Fifth Doctor did in fact use a gun - a regular one, with bullets, not even a raygun - to shoot an unhoused Dalek dead in one serial, and no one thought it was odd).

** A lot of things that were never really in ''Doctor Who'' somehow began to appear as {{Internal Homage}}s in later stories, under [[DeadUnicornTrope the mistaken idea they'd always been there]] -- especially in the Sixth Doctor era, where stories were heavily influenced by a fandom that had watched the old stuff once, twenty years ago, and then in many cases could literally never rewatch it because of all the [[MissingEpisode Missing Episodes]]. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E1AttackOfTheCybermen Attack of the Cybermen]]" was an attempt at writing an homage to a Second Doctor Cyberman story, but it's absolutely nothing like a Second Doctor Cyberman story in terms of plot structure or tone. Similarly, the idea that ''Doctor Who'' assistants are always ScreamingWoman DamselScrappy characters led to Mel, who was played up as if she was a 'retro' companion despite no character like her ever being in the show before.

** A lot of things that were never really in ''Doctor Who'' somehow began to appear as {{Internal Homage}}s in later stories, under [[DeadUnicornTrope the mistaken idea they'd always been there]] -- especially in the Sixth Doctor era, where stories were heavily influenced by a fandom that had watched the old stuff once, twenty years ago, and [[MissingEpisode could literally never rewatch it]]. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E1AttackOfTheCybermen Attack of the Cybermen]]" was an attempt at writing an homage to a Second Doctor Cyberman story, but it's absolutely nothing like a Second Doctor Cyberman story in terms of plot structure or tone. Similarly, the idea that ''Doctor Who'' assistants are always ScreamingWoman DamselScrappy characters led to Mel, who was played up as if she was a 'retro' companion despite no character like her ever being in the show before.

** Creator/RussellTDavies's idea for Series 1 was that it should be like you remember ''Doctor Who'' being. This included exaggerating things that weren't really that noticeable in the original series, like turning the Daleks from an evil and destructive, but ultimately surmountable, species into ''the vilest creatures in the entire universe that absolutely do not stop until [[OmnicidalManiac everything is dead]]'' to match how they'd felt to the audience as children, and upgrading the Doctor's usual lack of carrying a gun to an [[DoesNotLikeGuns anti-gun moral code]] (the Fifth Doctor did in fact use a gun - a regular one, with bullets - to shoot an unhoused Dalek dead in one serial, and no one thought it was odd).

** Creator/RussellTDavies's idea for Series 1 was that it should be like you remember ''Doctor Who'' being. This included exaggerating things that weren't really that noticeable in the original series, like turning the Daleks from an evil and destructive, but ultimately surmountable, species into ''the vilest creatures in the entire universe that absolutely do not stop until [[OmnicidalManiac everything is dead]]'' to match how they'd felt to the audience as children, and upgrading the Doctor's lack of carrying a gun to an [[DoesNotLikeGuns anti-gun moral code]].

* ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' showrunner Dean Georgaris told ''The Quantum Leap Podcast'' that he had watched every episode of the original ''Series/QuantumLeap'' some time ago, but made the conscious decision to avoid rewatching it when it was time to make the sequel series so that it wouldn't influence its direction. This definitely shows: while there are a few characters from the original, and the central concept of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong is still in place, the rules and lore of leaping are completely different. There is also an ongoing StoryArc involving the Project itself, whereas the original was an {{anthology}} with ''very'' few connected stories.

'''Creator/GuillermoDelToro:''' You know, I didn't on this one. I thought my preparation for this movie was having watched those movies as a kid and a young adult and as an adult. I carried them, and I decided against watching them. I said, "If I start watching them, it's going to block something." So I told everyone on the design team, "Let's not communicate through homages. Let's try to communicate in the language as if we were doing it for the first time." And then I would say, "Let's do a classic kaiju move like lifting the guy in the air," because I knew it was there. We were of course influenced by ''[[Anime/{{Patlabor}} Patlabor]]'', ''[[Anime/{{Gigantor}} Tetsujin 28]]'', ''[[Anime/{{Voltron}} Voltron]]'', ''[[Series/AmbassadorMagma Space Giants]]'', and ''[[Series/{{Ultraman}} Ultraman]]'', but we didn't consult them like a [[Literature/TheBible Bible]].

Whatever the reason, some creators will deliberately abstain from researching their inspiration, choosing instead to work off PopculturalOsmosis--or [[NostalgiaFilter their own memories]] of that time they watched the movie, ten years ago, in a run-down theater with such a bad sound system that half the dialogue was inaudible. Or if they do research the topic, it will be from second-, third-, or fourth-hand sources: why watch the movie if you can just read the movie critics' reviews of it? Or even better, the user reviews on Amazon?

* Creator/TobyFox has cited ''VideoGame/MoonRemixRPGAdventure'' as an important inspiration for his game ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''. However, Fox has also said he had never played ''Moon Remix'' himself, and his knowledge of the game largely consisted of hearing about how in the game you do not progress and grow stronger from killing monsters or otherwise through acts of violence, but by helping others. This gave Fox the idea for a game which actively accommodates not killing anyone.

* Creator/TobyFox has cited ''VideoGame/MoonRemixRPGAdventure'' as an important inspiration for his game ''VideoGame/Undertale''. However, Fox has also said he had never played ''Moon Remix'' himself before, and his knowledge of the game largely consisted of hearing about how in the game you do not progress and grow stronger from killing monsters or otherwise through acts of violence, but by helping others. This gave Fox the idea for a game which actively accommodates not killing anyone.

* When making ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'', Walt Disney told his entire staff not to read the original Kipling stories at all. The film was said to be "InspiredBy" rather than "based on" Kipling's works. Helps the first script tried to be a faithful adaptation, and Disney promptly rejected it for being too dark for family viewing.

* ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' showrunner Dean Georgaris told ''The Quantum Leap Podcast'' that he had watched every episode of the original ''Series/QuantumLeap'' some time ago, but made the conscious decision to avoid rewatching it when it was time to make the sequel series so that it wouldn't influence its direction. This definitely shows: while there are a few characters from the original, and the central concept of MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight is still in place, the rules and lore of leaping are completely different. There is also an ongoing StoryArc involving the Project itself, whereas the original was an {{anthology}} with ''very'' few connected stories.

* Creator/TerryGilliam said in his autobiography that whenever his movies are inspired by classics (e.g. ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''Film/TheManWhoKilledDonQuixote''), he prefers to work from cultural osmosis and vague memories, and only ''read'' the thing after the movie's finished. On the other hand, ''Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'' is a legendarily close adaptation of the novel (almost word-for-word).

* Creator/TerryGilliam said in his autobiography that whenever his movies are inspired by classics (e.g. ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', ''Film/TheManWhoKilledDonQuixote''), he prefers to work from cultural osmosis and vague memories, and only ''read'' the thing after the movie's finished. On the other hand, ''Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'' is a legendarily close adaptation of the novel (almost word-for-word), so go figure.