User blog comment:VicGeorge2K9/Pointless re-adaptations/@comment-17151653-20131029023910/@comment-1323688-20131030134017

That's how I've been telling them. It's just that when the flashbacks have no variation to the original story, no in-story commentary about what took place in previous times, no incidental additional characters or scenes or whatever, it ends up becoming a matter of "what did I even bother re-telling this story for"?