It's ok to just enjoy some mindless entertainment without looking at it through a microscope. Remember when you could just enjoy Quantum Leap without analyzing the contradictions and absurdities? Join the mindless masses and give your brain a rest. (as long as it isn't a permanent journey into the pit of despair) It's kind of like occasional drug or alcohol use. You can spare a few brain cells.
That's the thing about fanfic, though--it doesn't look at the show through a microscope. I mean, it kind of does, but fic finds the faults in a show's logic, and fixes them. If something doesn't make sense, you write a story that explains it. There are backstory fics and missing scene fics and basically things done to take care of the places where the canon doesn't quite meet the writer's satisfaction.
When the show takes the characters you love in a direction you didn't really want them going, you can write a fic. You can get the ending you really, really wanted. That is a huge part of the appeal of fanfiction.
And even if you love the canon, even if you wouldn't change a thing, there's always the option of exploring what happens next. What you didn't see, what might have gone on behind the scenes. Television can only show so much; it's a limited format. Writing can take you deeper, and into endless possibilities.
I'm sort of watching that too. Well, have watched the first two and might stick with it. It's the bellybuttonlessness that gets me every time, though the pretty helps as well. The voice-overs can be sort of nice. Sometimes.
All the people there vaguely confuse me because they look familiar yet I don't think I've ever seen them in anything else.
The story line and plots get better. The voice-overs... well, they pretty much stay cheesy, but there's less of them as time goes by. As for being to the fic stage, there are various levels of that. There's the kind of fannish squee where you're willing to read anything, as long as it's vaguely about these characters, and then there's the squee where you'd be interested in some really good fic, if you didn't have to look too hard for it. I'm more the second one. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be really good fic.
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When the show takes the characters you love in a direction you didn't really want them going, you can write a fic. You can get the ending you really, really wanted. That is a huge part of the appeal of fanfiction.
And even if you love the canon, even if you wouldn't change a thing, there's always the option of exploring what happens next. What you didn't see, what might have gone on behind the scenes. Television can only show so much; it's a limited format. Writing can take you deeper, and into endless possibilities.
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It's the bellybuttonlessness that gets me every time, though the pretty helps as well.
The voice-overs can be sort of nice. Sometimes.
All the people there vaguely confuse me because they look familiar yet I don't think I've ever seen them in anything else.
Not gotten to the fic stage yet, though.
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