Thread:TheCosmicDestroyer/@comment-5258585-20130417211840/@comment-3553379-20130417232720

Writing a story that's based off another shouldn't be seen as "lacking imagination". If it's completely like another story, I can see a problem. But if the story only shares a few similarities but is unique enough on its own, then it shouldn't be an issue for a story to be 'based off another'.

As the saying goes, all art is derivative. All art is, essentially, based on another type of art. If any art is 100% original, with no influence whatsoever on something else (subconscious or not), it's a rarity and it doesn't mean that it will be good.

Originality does not equal success.

Derivitave does not equal failure.