It's so weird to see an
indepth article on slash in the mainstream press. It's a good read, and the writer did his homework and wasn't judgey. I recognized the names of a few people interviewed. Stewardess! Loooove her BoB fic. :D
The Leverage creator is cool. And we've been over this a zillion times with Jeff Davis and how I get it that the
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Totally. They shouldn't cater to every audience whim, but making the audience happy (knowing you can't please all the people all the time) is not a bad thing.
It's really only with slash ships where fans get accused of being too pushy and disrespectful of the creative process and the authors/creators' rights to their characters.
Yep. Because the notion of leading gay characters and couples is still foreign to most showrunners. Still an impossibility.
Absolutely nothing about Scott and Derek saying "Well...don't do it again" and letting Deucalion go paid off our investment of watching their conflict across 12 episodes.
YES. So true. It crosses genres and isn't just about shipping. It's about emotional payoff. The ending of The Sopranos was so controversial because many people felt they didn't get that payoff after investing so many years ( ... )
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when I've invested years in a TV show that is about relationships as well as the mystery or whatever, and when said show has teased me with the possibility of HEA, it really poisons years of joy to have the rug pulled out from under me.
Same. A bad ending or going downhill can ruin an entire show for me.
Hey, how did Burn Notice end? I stopped watching years ago (it wasn't a bad breakup -- I just drifted away), but I assume Michael and Fiona ended up together?
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THIS. So much! When you strike gold, you don't continue mining for nickel. Great example with DC, and it was the same with Veronica Mars. Duncan was designed to be her OTP, but they realized the chemistry with V and Logan could not be contained and it would be stupid to deny it. The whole show changed midway through S1 because of it.
And yeah, a universe without homophobia is swell. Danny's swell! But LGBT characters on TV (with only a couple of exceptions, including Glee) are teritary characters. They are still not leads. Why not? Why on earth not? Especially on a show with a young, accepting audience. What is stopping them ( ... )
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I agree about Jeff and Stiles, and his refusal to abandon course with Stydia. I don't even mind Stydia since at least it's been a slow build. Holland and Dylan are cute together, although granted, Dylan has chemistry with the door.
It's interesting what Jeff said about the majority of fans not even knowing what Sterek is. It's true that we live in a fandom bubble to a certain extent. But even if they don't know, it doesn't mean they'd be opposed to it. (And even if they were -- he's not out to meet fan desires, heh.) I just feel like chemistry should be capitalized on when it happens. It's pretty rare to really have magic between two characters/actors.
the first person who's actually willing to go there with two "read-as-straight" leading/major characters based solely on chemistry and fan interest is going to be amazing and pretty much a god among ( ... )
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I can see both sides of it, and how some authors, actors, showrunners, etc. might feel a bit put out by fanfiction in general.
For me, as long as fans aren't profiting from other people's creations, I don't see the problem. We write and read fic because we love the show/movie/whatever. The anti-fic creators (e.g. Anne Rice, George R.R. Martin) don't seem to get that love is the driving force behind the vast majority of fic.
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That said, I can also understand how protective someone might be of an original character they created, and don't feel comfortable with someone else putting their own characterizations and scenarios on that person. I would suspect that those who have the greatest problem with it are likely fiercely attached to their own creations and don't want anyone else "messing with them".
as long as fans aren't profiting from other people's creations, I don't see the problemThey're not profiting monetarily, no, but one might ( ... )
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