Exactly. There are plenty of writers who are completely okay with fanfiction. She really needs to do some digging before being so accusatory, because it's very offensive to compare people who write fic to white slavers.

I was also expecting more of the parents involvement since they were the ones that burned Freddy and it's about their connection too, but I don't know.

I was expecting more about that as well. That whole thing seemed rushed, because the kids jumped from learning about it to believing they had lied, and their parents had burned an innocent man... And the parents never really had a *say*. I don't know, either. It was weird. (This is one of those movies that the more I think about it, the more holes I find, heh)

The original had a better flow and better organized style of storytelling than this one did because there was more development of the characters and their involvement, not such much with a psychological backstory.

This is part of my problem! A lot of movies/tv shows do this- they try to delve into deep psychology or metaphor, but they do it in a way that overrides the character development and the actual story of the movie. The movie should not be about some sort of psychological issue (unless that is your project), it needs to be about character and plot. If there is that psychological backstory or that metaphor, it deepens the story, but it should not *be* the story.

I really need to watch the original NOES again. Maybe I'll go rent it for tonight.