I enjoyed reading your post. Yesterday I talked about similar questions in my own journal, but I was more focused on the response some A.U human!stories get in fandom.
This latest kerfuffle was depressing , true. It is never pleasant to see people angry and/or hurt.
Should fanfics follow in official art's footsteps re: characterization or they may argue, develop or just plain ignore it? I think it's really up to the writer to decide how he wants to handle the source material he got from Joss. Characterization is mostly what matters to many of us , I guess. Good fictions will tend to portray Spike , Buffy , Angel and all the others as they've seen them on screen , as they perceived them . That being said , our perception of the characters may be very , very different.
In the end ( it was the main goal of my post ) , I believe freedom must prevail. If an author wants to use characters and ignore canon characterization , who am I to judge ?
I'm the kind 'live and let live'. :)
Should fans critisize other fans or just ignore the stuff they don't like? Definitely ignore . I mean , when I read a fiction I try to leave positive fb and if I don't like something at all, I will stop reading. I'm not in a position to give concrit. Like you I tend to avoid saying things that a writer could take the wrong way. *sigh* It's not easy ! We should be able to point out things which bother us , but ..
If I see fic or art that make me go : Uhh? I step back and look for something else !
As to the question whether or not some people should take the right to decide what's good and bad in the fandom , and make public post about it, thus attacking or mocking an author , an artist? It' s a big no.
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Date: 2007-05-24 03:55 pm (UTC)This latest kerfuffle was depressing , true. It is never pleasant to see people angry and/or hurt.
Should fanfics follow in official art's footsteps re: characterization or they may argue, develop or just plain ignore it?
I think it's really up to the writer to decide how he wants to handle the source material he got from Joss. Characterization is mostly what matters to many of us , I guess. Good fictions will tend to portray Spike , Buffy , Angel and all the others as they've seen them on screen , as they perceived them .
That being said , our perception of the characters may be very , very different.
In the end ( it was the main goal of my post ) , I believe freedom must prevail. If an author wants to use characters and ignore canon characterization , who am I to judge ?
I'm the kind 'live and let live'. :)
Should fans critisize other fans or just ignore the stuff they don't like?
Definitely ignore . I mean , when I read a fiction I try to leave positive fb and if I don't like something at all, I will stop reading. I'm not in a position to give concrit.
Like you I tend to avoid saying things that a writer could take the wrong way. *sigh* It's not easy !
We should be able to point out things which bother us , but ..
If I see fic or art that make me go : Uhh? I step back and look for something else !
As to the question whether or not some people should take the right to decide what's good and bad in the fandom , and make public post about it, thus attacking or mocking an author , an artist? It' s a big no.
My two cents. :)