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reenkaI'm obsessively watching Alias at the moment-- only half of first season so far-- and really enjoying it. I dunno why, 'cause it's not fantasy/sci-fi per se, and it's not quite romance adventure either, but I do like well-done spy-fi shows 'cause maybe you could see it as a sort of sci-fi anyway, right?
So I'm wondering why I'm really not interested in Alias fanfic (well, slash especially seems difficult at this point as none of the attractive males even know each other). If it was anything, it'd have to be canonical-pairing, and most likely this is the type of show I might read post-ending fic for if it ended badly, since that sort of curiosity and level of investment applies to most shows I like.
The only thing is... they say one of the main reasons people read fic is to 'get more of the show', right? Okay. Well. I've read a lot of fic in a (modest, but significant) number of fandoms, and I've never felt I was getting more of the same thing. It may even be better, but it's always different. Although sometimes it comes close... if I'm looking for series-continuation fic after the end, it's been a blinding, horrible disappointment, mostly.
Now I'm wondering if anyone actually had a positive experience looking for 'more of the same' after the end of a TV season or after... oh, say GoF or OoTP and been successful. Because oh man... I've really been burned, both with the sort of post-OoTP fic I was looking for and post-anime-series fic for my first mini-fandom, Hana Yori Dango. I've only had one success, and that's Herself's post-Chosen Buffy fanfic, Disenchantment, which perhaps may give me hope for the whole idea, come to think of it. It really satisfied me after the horribly unsatisfying ending (for a B/S shipper). Well, in that case, it probably helped that things revolved at least partly around Spike's last words, which were what bothered me, so maybe the specificity of the issue helped a lot. It's probably a lot harder to satisfy a fan's more ambiguous half-realized desires.
For instance, I just realized what I wanna see is a sort of semi-slashy AU of book 6 that still somehow manages to turn the whole thing into more of what I envisioned in my dreams post-OoTP-- like... not the horrible set-up where Harry 'sekritly' had sex with Malfoy during HBP & didn't crush on Ginny at -all-, but just where certain things didn't happen to do with plot threads other than Draco's-- and also, I think it'd help the H/D cause a lot if Dumbledore didn't die and Harry didn't leave school immediately 'cause he had inside info or something. Of course, this would mean severe messing with Snape's whole plot and actually the whole plot of HBP, but still-- it's good grist. Plus, you could beef up Harry's reaction to the bathroom scene a bit, heh.
Not surprisingly, no one has written this to my knowledge, and I doubt they would, simply because that sounds like a hell of a lot of work, doesn't it? But it just hit me that a H/D-slashy and Draco-centric rewrite of HBP is seriously the only HBP-era fic I'd be actually interested in reading. And sure, people have written several 'slashy' fics set within the HBP timeline, but that's not the same: it's one thing to mess with the timeline and alter a few events wantonly for slashy gratification, and another to reroute the whole shebang seriously, trying to achieve the same plot end-goals as JKR while going slashy.
So maybe the whole genre of series-continuation fanfic is undermined 'cause fans would tend to bring both too much specific expectation and too much ambiguous 'unresolved issues' to it which depend on pov anyway, and it's sort of a 'write it yourself' type thing by nature because of that. It really is so much easier to just dispose of a spouse or even raise someone from the dead if that's what it takes, because at least we can agree that other lovers and dead protagonists = bad. *sigh*
So I'm wondering why I'm really not interested in Alias fanfic (well, slash especially seems difficult at this point as none of the attractive males even know each other). If it was anything, it'd have to be canonical-pairing, and most likely this is the type of show I might read post-ending fic for if it ended badly, since that sort of curiosity and level of investment applies to most shows I like.
The only thing is... they say one of the main reasons people read fic is to 'get more of the show', right? Okay. Well. I've read a lot of fic in a (modest, but significant) number of fandoms, and I've never felt I was getting more of the same thing. It may even be better, but it's always different. Although sometimes it comes close... if I'm looking for series-continuation fic after the end, it's been a blinding, horrible disappointment, mostly.
Now I'm wondering if anyone actually had a positive experience looking for 'more of the same' after the end of a TV season or after... oh, say GoF or OoTP and been successful. Because oh man... I've really been burned, both with the sort of post-OoTP fic I was looking for and post-anime-series fic for my first mini-fandom, Hana Yori Dango. I've only had one success, and that's Herself's post-Chosen Buffy fanfic, Disenchantment, which perhaps may give me hope for the whole idea, come to think of it. It really satisfied me after the horribly unsatisfying ending (for a B/S shipper). Well, in that case, it probably helped that things revolved at least partly around Spike's last words, which were what bothered me, so maybe the specificity of the issue helped a lot. It's probably a lot harder to satisfy a fan's more ambiguous half-realized desires.
For instance, I just realized what I wanna see is a sort of semi-slashy AU of book 6 that still somehow manages to turn the whole thing into more of what I envisioned in my dreams post-OoTP-- like... not the horrible set-up where Harry 'sekritly' had sex with Malfoy during HBP & didn't crush on Ginny at -all-, but just where certain things didn't happen to do with plot threads other than Draco's-- and also, I think it'd help the H/D cause a lot if Dumbledore didn't die and Harry didn't leave school immediately 'cause he had inside info or something. Of course, this would mean severe messing with Snape's whole plot and actually the whole plot of HBP, but still-- it's good grist. Plus, you could beef up Harry's reaction to the bathroom scene a bit, heh.
Not surprisingly, no one has written this to my knowledge, and I doubt they would, simply because that sounds like a hell of a lot of work, doesn't it? But it just hit me that a H/D-slashy and Draco-centric rewrite of HBP is seriously the only HBP-era fic I'd be actually interested in reading. And sure, people have written several 'slashy' fics set within the HBP timeline, but that's not the same: it's one thing to mess with the timeline and alter a few events wantonly for slashy gratification, and another to reroute the whole shebang seriously, trying to achieve the same plot end-goals as JKR while going slashy.
So maybe the whole genre of series-continuation fanfic is undermined 'cause fans would tend to bring both too much specific expectation and too much ambiguous 'unresolved issues' to it which depend on pov anyway, and it's sort of a 'write it yourself' type thing by nature because of that. It really is so much easier to just dispose of a spouse or even raise someone from the dead if that's what it takes, because at least we can agree that other lovers and dead protagonists = bad. *sigh*
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Date: 2006-05-17 12:43 am (UTC)wait, you haven't gotten there yet. when you do, you can read my fic.
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Date: 2006-05-17 12:53 am (UTC)also: hee, your icon :D
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Date: 2006-05-17 01:28 am (UTC)THANK YOU!!!!
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Date: 2006-05-17 05:39 pm (UTC)....though I probably should've written 'do not open till the 18th' in retrospect ^^;;;
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Date: 2006-05-18 04:20 am (UTC)&hearts