Postscript, re: Babylon 5 and Fanfiction
Jan. 30th, 2002 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosI just found out the Sineala is trying to summarize our recent discussions about how and why some shows have more and better fanfiction.
Babylon 5 is a show where there's really very little good fanfiction. I choose to believe that this is because the show kicks so much ass, and the characters as so well-drawn, that it's difficult, if not impossible, to write fanfiction that fulfills all of the fanfiction characteristics we love, both filling in plot holes or tangenting off incomplete plot ideas and building or investigating characterisation.
I think the most common pairing in B5 is Marcus/Ivanova, because their story had a Sad Ending. But I think it's kind of like trying to write fanfiction for Romeo and Juliet -- it's so well done, fixing it would either make the emotions trite and lose the power of the moments on the show or have to do incredibly ridiculous plot thingies or both. I mean, when the famous Marcus Moment happened, I wrote a list of 100 ways to save him (both before and after the end of Endgame) as a joke -- and man, silly and farfetched and not in keeping with the spirit of the show.
Not that the emotions in R+J might not be trite already...
Babylon 5 is a show where there's really very little good fanfiction. I choose to believe that this is because the show kicks so much ass, and the characters as so well-drawn, that it's difficult, if not impossible, to write fanfiction that fulfills all of the fanfiction characteristics we love, both filling in plot holes or tangenting off incomplete plot ideas and building or investigating characterisation.
I think the most common pairing in B5 is Marcus/Ivanova, because their story had a Sad Ending. But I think it's kind of like trying to write fanfiction for Romeo and Juliet -- it's so well done, fixing it would either make the emotions trite and lose the power of the moments on the show or have to do incredibly ridiculous plot thingies or both. I mean, when the famous Marcus Moment happened, I wrote a list of 100 ways to save him (both before and after the end of Endgame) as a joke -- and man, silly and farfetched and not in keeping with the spirit of the show.
Not that the emotions in R+J might not be trite already...
