Why are some of the source works or franchises of your fan-fiction works so old? Why don't you use only the Jewish canonical Torah? Why do you reference software world / computer geek / open source details?
PrevNode LinkNextWell, as you can tell, it is futile to try to please everyone and some people are bound to complain, and to opposite extremes. I try to take the advice to "make your own kind of music" and use my own cultural background and interests as inspiration for my creative works. Also note that I tend to agree with Larry Wall that “All Truth is God’s Truth”.
Often, people still enjoy my works without being intimately familiar with all the sources of inspiration.
Now, regarding the Mishnah and the Talmud, to paraphrase on Sturgeon's Law, I feel that 99.95% of the Mishnah and the Talmud are crap
, and while they contain many gems, they are mostly redundant.
There is no way one can expect them (or me) to only use sources earlier than 1900, because technology as well as art, culture, & entertainment / education / amateur philosophy, did not stand still since then, despite being increasingly based on Copyrights’ maximalism.
You can never truly appreciate Hamlet until you've read it in the original Klingon.
But all the mightiest Klingon warriors have watched Disney's The Lion King instead (or in addition), possibly with Klingon subtitles.
In my screenplay Selina Mandrake - The Slayer, the protagonist (Selina) runs into three vampire warriors (“The Three”) dressed as Klingons, who tell her that “Every mighty Klingon warrior has watched Sesame Street”.
As a retort, she exclaims: “Mighty Klingon vampire warriors who have watched Sesame Street… this decade royally sucks!!”. However, most of the best American warriors of the relatively recent past (of all kinds) have watched Sesame Street, because they loved it as happy children (and later as adults).