No Canon For You
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sparklebutchFannish Friday 5:
What five things are you afraid will happen in canon? Or, for a closed canon, what five things are you glad never happened in canon?
I had hope going for oh, eight years, was it. I thought, if they didn't say X happened, then X might as well have not happened. It would have made more sense for Y to have happened, anyway. Let's think about Y. Let's only use X in a moderate tiny way when we really want to write angst, and then switch on it and write glorious Y instead.
Because if X happened, that says pretty horrific things about not only character A, but also, even more so, about character B who put him there and character C who helped. Not to mention moved character D from "mildly unpleasant" to "can't even look at you".
...And then X happened. You think canon's closed, but it isn't. You think your guy is safe because he's so minor, but he isn't.
You think hey, it's just fiction, right? And not even very good fiction.
You're wrong.
Because it is just fiction, and not even very good fiction, but it's there, and you can't unsee what you've seen, even if it's full of gigantic holes in plot, continuity, sense-making (let's not even talk about staying in-character for a minute). Even if it's very easily deniable by employing the most basic of logics. Even if you just don't want it to happen.
Cue a sort of projected midlife-crisis and loss of faith.
Cue a need not only to revert and undo X, but also try very hard to redeem some of the one-lettered characters mention above, because, as I may have mentioned, if X had happened, that makes them bad human beings. And we don't want them to be bad human beings. We like them. We very much love some of them.
Also, and this is a sub-rant, say you thought all your friends are going to bitch and rant about X if it ever happened - say you were positive no one would want it to happen. Say you felt you were in a small but secure circle. But X happened and no one cried over it, no one shouted to the skies. And any other spoiler gets paraded all over, and this one is ignored. And slowly you realise, X happened because TPTB knew that no one would give a fuck. They felt it justified because they didn't feel they had to justify themselves on this topic, on this character.
And you realise that TPTB you praised so for having love for their characters, for remembering them to be Real People in some fictional 'verse - have used this one as less than a petty little plot device, and discarded them without much thought.
Cue a very nasty feeling indeed.
Prompt #186 of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
all_unwritten, today's prompt, is "What if". A simple one, for sure. And there are so many ways to prevent X from ever happening. A million whatifs along the years. A million scenarios more sensible than the one given by canon. A million paths...
Down the road of Chaos.
What five things are you afraid will happen in canon? Or, for a closed canon, what five things are you glad never happened in canon?
I had hope going for oh, eight years, was it. I thought, if they didn't say X happened, then X might as well have not happened. It would have made more sense for Y to have happened, anyway. Let's think about Y. Let's only use X in a moderate tiny way when we really want to write angst, and then switch on it and write glorious Y instead.
Because if X happened, that says pretty horrific things about not only character A, but also, even more so, about character B who put him there and character C who helped. Not to mention moved character D from "mildly unpleasant" to "can't even look at you".
...And then X happened. You think canon's closed, but it isn't. You think your guy is safe because he's so minor, but he isn't.
You think hey, it's just fiction, right? And not even very good fiction.
You're wrong.
Because it is just fiction, and not even very good fiction, but it's there, and you can't unsee what you've seen, even if it's full of gigantic holes in plot, continuity, sense-making (let's not even talk about staying in-character for a minute). Even if it's very easily deniable by employing the most basic of logics. Even if you just don't want it to happen.
Cue a sort of projected midlife-crisis and loss of faith.
Cue a need not only to revert and undo X, but also try very hard to redeem some of the one-lettered characters mention above, because, as I may have mentioned, if X had happened, that makes them bad human beings. And we don't want them to be bad human beings. We like them. We very much love some of them.
Also, and this is a sub-rant, say you thought all your friends are going to bitch and rant about X if it ever happened - say you were positive no one would want it to happen. Say you felt you were in a small but secure circle. But X happened and no one cried over it, no one shouted to the skies. And any other spoiler gets paraded all over, and this one is ignored. And slowly you realise, X happened because TPTB knew that no one would give a fuck. They felt it justified because they didn't feel they had to justify themselves on this topic, on this character.
And you realise that TPTB you praised so for having love for their characters, for remembering them to be Real People in some fictional 'verse - have used this one as less than a petty little plot device, and discarded them without much thought.
Cue a very nasty feeling indeed.
Prompt #186 of
all_unwritten, today's prompt, is "What if". A simple one, for sure. And there are so many ways to prevent X from ever happening. A million whatifs along the years. A million scenarios more sensible than the one given by canon. A million paths...Down the road of Chaos.
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Date: 2008-03-08 04:31 pm (UTC)Because she may not have thought he was an admirable man, but she thought he was *important*.
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Date: 2008-03-08 07:32 pm (UTC)I have a lot of problems with this lady, but, I suppose they're on other things.