Media references to fanfic, the week ending 6/19/10
True Blood again inspired several refs this past week. In the New York Post, Tiffany Connors said, of True Blood, Last week's homoerotic dream featuring Sam and Bill was just fuel for the fan-fiction fire and made Mama wonder if Sookie is just superfluous at this point. And, New York Magazine's Vulture wrote All told, the premiere was a reminder that when done right, True Blood's bag of tricks - dream sequences that read like fan fiction, biting social satire played with sitcom timing, gross out gore, id-channeling sexcapades, camp to shame John Waters - can make for a rollicking hour of television, especially when anchored by pathetically human emotions like loss, guilt, regret, and fear.
On BlackBook, Joe Coscarelli wrote that People reported that Megan Fox is re-engaged to Brian Austin Green of 90210 fame, but that's what fan fiction is for.
In a Hollywood.com overview of the continued popularity of Firefly, Peter Hall wrote Whedon can't keep his universe alive all by himself, but he can inspire the fans to want to keep it alive in art, fan fiction, and support of spin-off comics and books that take the characters into new adventures.
Finally, on San Francisco Bay Guardian, Cheryl Eddy, in a review of the BBC's The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, wrote besides tapping into the Jane Austen slash fiction demographic, this tale of pre-Victorian bodice ripping and skirt lifting among the female gentry offers the considerable thrill of being adapted from the actual secret diaries of the titular Miss Lister, decoded by a biographer 150 years after her death.
On BlackBook, Joe Coscarelli wrote that People reported that Megan Fox is re-engaged to Brian Austin Green of 90210 fame, but that's what fan fiction is for.
In a Hollywood.com overview of the continued popularity of Firefly, Peter Hall wrote Whedon can't keep his universe alive all by himself, but he can inspire the fans to want to keep it alive in art, fan fiction, and support of spin-off comics and books that take the characters into new adventures.
Finally, on San Francisco Bay Guardian, Cheryl Eddy, in a review of the BBC's The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, wrote besides tapping into the Jane Austen slash fiction demographic, this tale of pre-Victorian bodice ripping and skirt lifting among the female gentry offers the considerable thrill of being adapted from the actual secret diaries of the titular Miss Lister, decoded by a biographer 150 years after her death.