More fannish questions...

[fajrdrako]

This set of questions is from fandom_me:

1- What was your first online fandom?
2- Do you have a fandom related 'guilty pleasure' ?
3- Is there anything besides bad technical execution that consistently throws you out of a story?
4- Unpopular fannish opinion?
5- Is there a work of fiction you *wish* had a (or a bigger) fannish following?

My answers:
1- What was your first online fandom? - Dorothy Dunnett fandom. It was Dunnett fans who helped me get online in the first place, before online fandom actually existed - back in the ancient days of DOS and before the Web was invented. It was wonderful. Arguing about which child was which for days on end and tracking down historical references and revelling in everything Lymondesque.

2- Do you have a fandom related 'guilty pleasure'? No. I never have guilty pleasures - that is, I never have pleasures I feel guilty about. I am shameless all my pleasures and wonder why the rest of the world undervalues things I think are wonderful. I know it's their taste at fault, not mine.

So I have no guilty pleasures at all. Just many pleasures.

Though perhaps, given maaseru's teasing lately, I'm feeling a mite self-conscious about my delight in Captain Jack Harkness' possession of the Doctor's hand. But... in a good way.

3- Is there anything besides bad technical execution that consistently throws you out of a story? Characterization that is at odds with the way I see the characters will do it. If the author is really adept, she will probably be able to convince me of any kind of characterization, but there are few writers that good.

4- Unpopular fannish opinion? I'm happy that the Doctor has lost Rose. I loved Rose, but I like the way events happened, I loved her heroic fate, and I love the post-Rose Doctor. I also feel at odds with Jack/Ianto fandom (though I quite like the pairing) because I don't want Jack to love Ianto more than he loves the Doctor. I like Jack being uncommitted, at least in all the normal senses of the word.

5- Is there a work of fiction you *wish* had a (or a bigger) fannish following? Oh, yes - the Karin Lowachee books, Warchild, Burndive and Cagebird. I'd love to be able to discuss these books ad infinitum with a large and articulate body of fans.

Comments

[ladykoori.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Rose is gone too. Mostly because she and the Doctor were acting pretty juvenile for most of series 2 imo. She did have a pretty cool exit, though.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I liked the playfulness between the Doctor and Rose, but I don't know where (if anywhere) it might have led. Do you think they couldn't have changed back to the playful but more serious tone she had with Nine? Or wouldn't?

A change in tone is good. It does no harm that the events surrounding her departure showed heroism, her loyalty to the Doctor, and sacrifice.

[ladykoori.livejournal.com]

Do you think they couldn't have changed back to the playful but more serious tone she had with Nine? Or wouldn't?

I'm not sure they could have gone back to it. Ten and Rose were more like a pair of best mates while as Nine and Rose often had the air of him as the amusing uncle or much older sibling teaching and showing things to Rose. Ten and Rose were more equals, which was good and bad at the same time as it meant Rose was more assertive and sure of herself, more ready to take action on her own, but it also meant that she and the Doctor spent a good deal of time amused with their own greatness.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Interesting analysis! I don't think I agree, but I'll have to think about how and why.