(Vid) Angel:After the Fall opening credits

[stormwreath]

A while ago I put together an opening credits sequence for Buffy Season Eight, and it seemed like a good idea to do the same for Angel: After the Fall. And so here they are.

For maximum enjoyment, I recommend turning the volume up and playing this vid before reading each issue of the comic. :-)

Download link for high quality 640x480 resolution WMV

Comments

[stormwreath]

This, to me, is pretty much the definition of fanfic. The show has to stay within certain boundaries and take into account all that came before, but fic can toss anything it likes overboard.

Huh. I seem to be going around with a different definition of fanfic to everybody else. :-) Like you go on to say, good fanfic takes endless care over preserving continuity and characterisation, because thats the whole point of it. Fanfic takes the story we love and gives us more of it. More of the characters, more of the world, more of the same. Except often with added m/m sex, for some reason. If you're writing original fiction, however, you're perfectly free to head off in whatever new direction you like. If you want to make Bilbo's convenient little magic ring the Grand All-Powerful Artefact of Doom, you can, because it's your world and you're its sole creator and ultimate source.

It doesn't necessarily mean that the sequel is going to be good, of course, especially if the author does go off in a completely weird direction... Your Torchwood comparison seems strangely apt here. ;-)

Though if you'd rather say S8 is a spin-off rather than a sequel, I've got no real problem with that idea. Angel on his own show was just about as different from the way he was on BtVS as S8 Buffy is from her earlier incarnation...

Also, it's nice to see you back here. It's been a while... :-)

[elisi]

I seem to be going around with a different definition of fanfic to everybody else. :-)
I've been pondering this all since yesterday, and now I'm going to have to write an essay on the different types of fanfic. Bother. (Basically I think there are 2 sorts, AtF belongs in the first, s8 in the second.)

If you want to make Bilbo's convenient little magic ring the Grand All-Powerful Artefact of Doom, you can, because it's your world and you're its sole creator and ultimate source.
Ah, but that's different. The Hobbit was always just an offshoot of a much bigger 'verse (in its straightforwardness, it is like Buffy the movie is to the show). s8 is more like... Children of Hurin (which I haven't read btw, and it's not a good comparison, but...)

Your Torchwood comparison seems strangely apt here. ;-)
At least Torchwood is straightforward about where it stands!

Though if you'd rather say S8 is a spin-off rather than a sequel, I've got no real problem with that idea. Angel on his own show was just about as different from the way he was on BtVS as S8 Buffy is from her earlier incarnation...
Seems like a good compromise. :)

Also, it's nice to see you back here. It's been a while... :-)
RL ate me. And now I want to concentrate on writing...

[stormwreath]

The Hobbit was always just an offshoot of a much bigger 'verse

Actually not... Tolkien origially started telling the story as a stand-alone, but found elements of his Silmarillion mythology creeping in as background material, like the references to Gondolin and the Necromancer. So he later went back to revise Middle-Earth so it included hobbits.

But that's irrelevant to the topic. :-)

[elisi]

Actually, that rather neatly shows it to parallel Buffy the movie. :)