The Way It Is

[viridian5]

I've started watching a new anime series and innocently went to AO3 to see if there's fic. Hoo boy is there ever. A currently hot fandom, with lots of new fic appearing daily. I forgot what that's like! Don't have the urge to write for it myself though. No spark of inspiration, plus the fandom apparently has lots of other people writing anyway.

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[mousebebe]

Wow, I haven't been in a "hot" fandom in... about that long, actually. :) At least not writing.

For me, the criteria for writing in a fandom seems to be, not the size of the fandom, but whether I can easily dabble in the in-between spaces. Hence, Andromeda versus Firefly; I can write in Drom because there are gaps you can drive a truck through and a lot of unrealized potential, but I have a hard time in Firefly because of how things tended to get neatly tucked away.

I'd never thought about it in terms of "It doesn't need me," but that might play into it, too. Hmm...

[viridian5]

Yeah, I got into writing Drom from wanting to explore and fill in the empty spaces. I had other issues with Firefly too, which made me sad since the concept sounded more like getting a show about the adventures of something like the Eureka Maru....

[mousebebe]

I do wish somebody would make a show that did that. Be kind of a pre-Drom Maru, I mean.

What other issues did you have with Firefly?

[viridian5]

Yes!

The fact that I looked forward to and had such high hopes for Firefly--a Whedon show! A show that sounded a bit like it would focus on the adventures of a Eureka Maru-type crew! Nathan Filion and Gina Torres in the cast!--made my disappointment in what I actually got worse.

I didn't really like any of the characters--at best I kind of liked Wash sometimes--and I didn't like how Mal treated the Companion character. I was also getting tired of Whedon's obligatory damaged, "crazy"/whimsical asskicking waif characters.

I didn't like how literally the show took the "Western in space" idea in a lot of the clothing, speech patterns, and furnishings. Why would people in a future like that, including a future with a lot of Chinese influence, dress and talk like they came out of a Western movie? (How randomly and arbitrarily the show threw those influences together didn't read well for me either.) Heavy wooden furniture and loose drawers and wooden chairs on a starship seemed so stupid to me. Just remember a scene in Drom's "Fear and

[mousebebe]

All good reasons to be annoyed, I think

[viridian5]

I saw the movie but not the unaired episodes. It'd take a lot to get me to like Jayne. *g* I too wish Zoe was given more to her character than being connected to Wash and Mal, defined by her roles with them.

It is everywhere, but the Firefly's furniture looked so lethally heavy while also being so incongruous on a spaceship that it further called attention to itself.