You know, this whole debate over Necrosha and Blackest Night reminds me of another controversy...
In the Golden age of animation, The two big names were Warner Bros and MGM. Well one year, both studios released a cartoons (one relesed immediately after the other) that were strickingly similar. MGM's was a Tom & Jerry film called "Cat Concerto" and WB released "Rabbit Rhapsody" starring bugs bunny. Both cartoons feature Tom and Bugs doing a concert piano perfomance to a filled theatre, during which the music (the Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in both cartoon) wake up a mouse sleeping underneathe the stage (Jerry and a unnamed mouse respectively) annoyed, the mouse sets out to ruin and end the performance and get back to sleep.
The two films, not only sharing the same plot and same musical piece, also have nearly identical gags run in the same order. Both studios claimed that they had made the cartoon and sent the original print off to technicolor, who eledgedly accidentally cent it back to the other company, thus allowing the competitor to copy it before corecting the shipping error.
In watching the cartoon, it is clear that it is no coincidence, yet both companies stuck with their story till MGM was bought out by WB. So a concrete answer never given people simply chose to belive the one they liked the best to be the original. I have my own opinion, but it's really moot, so I don't care.
Seems to be the same case here. Which ever you like, go ahead and enjoy it knowing that any potential knock off can't sour how good the "original" is. And if you can enjoy both, more power to you, and which ever came first is irrelevent to their individual quality. This controversy is one that won't be put to bed because the die hard fans will always defend the company they prefer.
Just remember "originality is simply forgetting where you saw it first"
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