Canonical Characterisation in SGA
I've been reading all the wonderful comments on the SGA story I posted the other day, Overheard at Supper, and this one things keeps recurring over and over.
People keep saying the equivalent of: "your take on the characters is so them."
It's not a one-off event, either. It happened in the comments of A Change of Seasons, and some of my other stories too. But it's only with these two stories that I really noticed the trend.
And at first I was just nodding my head, feeling pleased and flattered that people thought so, but after a while I started to wonder... If my characters are "so them," then what are other people writing that makes my take so comment-worthy?
I mean, aren't all takes on the characters equally valid? What is it that I'm doing that's clicking with people? Is there some kind of "range" of characterisation, and stories which fall closest to the centrepoint are seen as more authentic? Or is there some other thing going on, like the fannish zeitgeist, and I'm just more influenced by the hivemind than other writers?
I'm suddenly really intrigued. I want to know who you think these characters are, and what you're looking for when you read a story about them? What makes them "so them" in a story?
Talk to me.
People keep saying the equivalent of: "your take on the characters is so them."
It's not a one-off event, either. It happened in the comments of A Change of Seasons, and some of my other stories too. But it's only with these two stories that I really noticed the trend.
And at first I was just nodding my head, feeling pleased and flattered that people thought so, but after a while I started to wonder... If my characters are "so them," then what are other people writing that makes my take so comment-worthy?
I mean, aren't all takes on the characters equally valid? What is it that I'm doing that's clicking with people? Is there some kind of "range" of characterisation, and stories which fall closest to the centrepoint are seen as more authentic? Or is there some other thing going on, like the fannish zeitgeist, and I'm just more influenced by the hivemind than other writers?
I'm suddenly really intrigued. I want to know who you think these characters are, and what you're looking for when you read a story about them? What makes them "so them" in a story?
Talk to me.