A good bit of my objection to fanfic (aside from the copyright issues--and I'm not sure how these apply when you take characters from one medium and implement them in another; particularly when one medium is TV, in which episodes may be written by a lot of different people) is that 99% of it is Just Awful, and it's revolting to see your characters being made to do and say idiotic things, or be forced to enact simple-minded sex fantasies (which is what most fan-fic that comes to my unwilling attention is). Like someone selling your children into white slavery.
(I actually have some sympathy for the squickage of seeing your characters written in a way which you feel is OOC, but, you know, "it squicks me" =/= "it should be banned". And "white slavery" as a choice of metaphor is ... strange.)
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Date: 2010-05-05 08:34 am (UTC)http://community.compuserve.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?msg=58981.2&nav=messages&webtag=ws-books
A good bit of my objection to fanfic (aside from the copyright issues--and I'm not sure how these apply when you take characters from one medium and implement them in another; particularly when one medium is TV, in which episodes may be written by a lot of different people) is that 99% of it is Just Awful, and it's revolting to see your characters being made to do and say idiotic things, or be forced to enact simple-minded sex fantasies (which is what most fan-fic that comes to my unwilling attention is). Like someone selling your children into white slavery.
(I actually have some sympathy for the squickage of seeing your characters written in a way which you feel is OOC, but, you know, "it squicks me" =/= "it should be banned". And "white slavery" as a choice of metaphor is ... strange.)