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Originally Posted by trainedobserver
Just like Carter confessed to doing for the X-files the writers of LOST undoubtedly mine forums just like this one for ideas
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I don't think this applies to everything.
For example Star Trek was way before the internet even existed. By the time they got to TNG, the "inside" info for lack of a better term, started to become more pronounced, and while I can agree with your premise to a certain extent, especially with the contemporary stuff, I don't think this applies to everything.
Arthur Clark's novels, Isaac Asimov, the really classic science fiction stories were most certainly not derived from taking other people's ideas, I do believe that some key elements were/are derived from reality.
The truth is stranger than fiction. Sometimes, anyway.