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Vancouver Browncoats produce fan tv-show based on Firefly
POSTED BY: Oxyopia
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 19:14
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:19 PM
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In regards to this whole "fan fiction" thing, I personally think that writing someone else's character can sometimes be harder than writing your own. You have to stick to a very rigid definition of something that someone else has created. That said, fan fiction is usually just harmless fun. I don't think that the majority of people who write fan fiction have aspirations of becoming published writers. I don't see why so many people have problems with it.
Sure... if you do it right. I think what annoys people (what annoys me, anyway) is when the fanfiction writer screws with the character so much that they're almost unrecognizable. Different voice, different personality. Why bother using that character at all? Or, when they whine that the latest installment of whatever isn't in keeping with the "fanon." (This happened quite a bit when the latest Harry Potter book came out.) On the other hand, I never had any problem with the Star Trek series' that didn't involve direct input from Gene Roddenberry.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:14 PM
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Originally posted by WhoMe:
I think what annoys people (what annoys me, anyway) is when the fanfiction writer screws with the character so much that they're almost unrecognizable. Different voice, different personality. Why bother using that character at all?
Yeah, I'll agree with ya on that one. If you're going to bother writing fan fiction, ya gotta stay true to the original work. I know we had some issues even with our script - though they were different characters, we had to make sure we sounded 'verse like. Took some thought.
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