_Reboot_: a semantic extension thereof

[Neal Whitman]

I've been seeing this use of "reboot" for several years now, at least as
long as movie and comic-book franchises have been getting "rebooted" in
order to have fresh new storylines without the encumbrances of decades'
worth of accumulated mythology. Don't have time to find sources right now,
but for starters check this definition of "continuity reboot" on TV Tropes &
Idioms:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ContinuityReboot

Neal Whitman
Email: nwhitman at ameritech.net
Blog: http://literalminded.wordpress.com

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> "... Wonder Woman, NBC's _reboot_ of the comic-book heroine's hit '70's
> show."
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> Star. April 18, 2011. p.13
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