Stories are like living entities - they change all the time. I'm not concerned about the natural way of changes. But when people try to change one of my pieces from the outside, it more often than not kills the story for me.

After 40+ years of writing, I'm an experienced enough to know what feels right and what doesn't. And even if other people disagree, it will still feel right to me. Still, when people are trying to turn it inside out and upside down, even if it happens with the best intentions, it pretty much kills it for me. Even if for a third party, the changes would seem more reasonable, it no longer feels like my story, and it just dies.

Which is what happened to the "Director Jones" pilot today. :(