Different Fandoms...

[lyore]

You know, it's weird how I look for different things in different fandoms. Am I the only one who does this?

I mean, I'm into the Stargate SG-1 fandom purely for the fic, but I'm a sucker for Star Wars meta (although well written (OT, gen) fic is always good). Harry Potter was about half-and-half meta and fic, back when I was a big-time fan. Dr Who is great for the general squee! ness, but I don't really want to read fic for it, and Supernatural is all about the visual candy (OK, partly this is out of an attempt to stay unspoiled).

Thinking about it, I guess it mostly has to do with the way I relate to the source material. Stargate, for instance - Don't get me wrong, I love that show to pieces, but for it's potential, as well as what it is. When you combine the gaping plot holes, the inconsistent characterisation and character development, and the complete lack of resolution to most of the episodes, it's crying out for decent fanfic to fill in the gaps. Whereas Star Wars, prequels and all, doesn't have that feeling of incompleteness to me. I still love good 'missing moment' fics, but I don't really need them to get a sense of what the movies are saying (OK, maybe for the prequels...). On the other hand, I will go hunting for good meta concerning any of the characters, even the ones I don't particularly like, just to see other peoples interpretations.

I don't even know if that makes sense, but it's after midnight, and I have to be up in 6 hours.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bluebells/]

Nah, it makes plenty of sense. I look at fandom as a supplement of canon and if I go leafing through fanfic it's because I'm not satisfied with what's being put to me in canon. It's the same with writing and this is why I had a lot of trouble with bob_ette's initial Supernatural fic: everything I wanted was already in the series or seemed promised to come, so what in the hell could I write about? In such cases it falls to writing about things that are either 'missing', the 'uncensored' version of scenes, or making things up entirely. I tend to do the last of these and refer as much as I can to events we've seen in the episodes.

The other day I was gripped with boredom and happened across a fan's "uncensored" version of the "Skin" (ie. doppelganger) episode (again, SPN). It was actually very good and tied itself in seamlessly with the original; but I'm a sucker for anything that's well written. I need a SPN icon.

[lyore.livejournal.com]

Ohh, link please?

[psuedoskribe.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'd have to find it again, will try. Mind you, it had incestuous undertones (rather, overtones), but will let you decide.

[10 minutes later]

Huzzah!

http://estel-willow.livejournal.com/118743.html#cutid1

Have I whined yet how hard it is to find good gen SPN fic? Pretty hard!

[lyore.livejournal.com]

That is why I haven't even looked :)

GEN FIC!!! We need more GEN fic!

[psuedoskribe.livejournal.com]

Hehe, we should make a banner demanding more GEN. I mean, I'm doing *my* part for the GEN-ness, but what're you doing, eh? Eh??? =PPP

[lotusflower85.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit the same - there are fandoms I love but would never read or write fic for.

And I completely agree with you on Stargate fic - you'd think with such a long running tv show there wouldn't need to be so many 'missing moments' but what I love about the show (the characters) aren't always explored and their issues aren't always resolved. There's nothing like a good Stargate tag to pick up the slack where the writers left off.

Not that i'm disparaging them, of course. I understand that with a sci-fi action based show, of course the plot is going to come first. But sometimes those quiet missing or after-episode moments in fic are just so much more satisfying.

[lyore.livejournal.com]

Yeah - Buffy's one of the other shows I love, but I pratically never read fic for.

Stargate's great for the mindless fun action, but yeah - sometimes I feel that they really aren't using the characters to their fullest potential. Which is where fanfic (good fanfic, of course) comes into it's own.