Like I posted before some people can breathe new life into cliches. I've rped cliches but I read up a lot on what everyone else was doing with said cliche and didn't copy them exactly. I added my own spin I didn't copy it exactly which in literature is called plagerism.
Lucas and everyone used other work, ancient mythe etc, as a starting point. He would've ben cliche if he'd of made Luke's story that of Hercules just changing the names and making it in space but he didn't. Theres is nothing wrong with archtypes or themes but just plain copying another rper since he got attention is cliche.
For instance the possession thing one person did it in a shell and did it well and then suddenly tons popped up with it and we had competeing "demons" and it just got into more of an "Epeen" contest ending not well. All because these people copied the first person, the way they behaved etc, and it ruined the first person's character.
Lucas and everyone used other work, ancient mythe etc, as a starting point. He would've ben cliche if he'd of made Luke's story that of Hercules just changing the names and making it in space but he didn't. Theres is nothing wrong with archtypes or themes but just plain copying another rper since he got attention is cliche.
For instance the possession thing one person did it in a shell and did it well and then suddenly tons popped up with it and we had competeing "demons" and it just got into more of an "Epeen" contest ending not well. All because these people copied the first person, the way they behaved etc, and it ruined the first person's character.