Monday Morning Mock Drafts: Let’s Run It Again

Guten Tag, drones.

For this week’s draft we reach into the Grab BagO’ Suggested Topics and find one from frequent contributor and vacuum-adjacent enthusiast Rikki-Tikki-Deadly.

All this note says is “sequels”…

And “sequels” is spelled wrong!!!

That may be my fault, but that won’t stop me from blaming Rikki!

Anyway, this week we draft sequels.  What is a sequel? you ask, and to which I reply, what do you care, no one around here follows the goddamn rules anyway.  Nonetheless I swore an oath when I took this job…(takes call from Puerto Rican counsel)

OK, it wasn’t an oath, per se, (phone rings), OK, there was no oath, (phone goes ominously silent, but still somehow en espanol) but whatever, I’ll still throw some rules out.  Slowly.  Using small words.

DFO draft rooms everywhere:

No.  Pay attention.  Let’s say someone writes something.  Or films something.  Or does something.  Literally anything, they do a first of that thing one time.  That thing, the first thing they did, is not eligible.

BUT, then they do that first thing again, but maybe they do it a little differently.  And maybe they change the title.  Could be a little, could be a lot.  Maybe it’s just the same title, but with a ‘2’ in front of it.  That one you can draft.

Also doesn’t just have to be the second one in a series, you can draft any movie/film/event that is based on or otherwise relies on an original one which, again, you cannot draft.

You can also, at the risk of blowing your minds, can draft a prequel if you want, if it was made after the initiating project.  I’m think here specifically of the ‘Star Wars’ prequels, although why you’d want to draft any of those hunks of crap is beyond me.  The point is you can if you want to.

But you shouldn’t.  That’s unsigned free agent talent right there, that’s what that is.

OK, I’ve been writing this for 12 whole minutes and RTD has rudely not gotten back to me about the message I sent him 13 minutes ago.  He does have the first pick, so I will put this on ice for now.  I’ll try to remember to check in before going to bed, (this will almost certainly not happen), and update as appropriate.

The rest of you are on the clock.