Different Fandoms...
Apr. 19th, 2006 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lyoreYou 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.
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.
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Date: 2006-04-20 11:37 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-04-20 12:29 pm (UTC)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.