“Two variations of the hero’s journey?”

What’s the second one?

Also, Dan Harmon would like a word about story circles.

I mean say what you will of the guy but he’s not even close to being the moan derivative writer I know. Hell, I’d even argue he has had a few original thoughts at one point or another.

But yeah, you hit the nail on the head with the comment. However the whole “nothing new under the sun” thing is literally thousands of years old, so it’s not like people haven’t been complaining about similar things for ages.