I definitely agree with your points about it being much too early to have any idea where Joss is going with the comics. I, personally, am not a fan of comics and generally don't read them, but mainly because I find the pictures distracting, have a hard time reading many of the fonts used in dialogue, and if I had my druthers, every book I bought would be at least 700 pages long. So you can pretty much guarantee that I won't be following the comics.
And isn't the whole point of fanfic to tell a story that hasn't been told in canon? If one is writing something new and exciting and wishes to surprise and delight readers, that seems to argue against very detailed summaries. I definitely feel that summaries should warn about things that a lot of people consider squicks - such as incest, slash, BDSM, etc. but I never understood the wanting to be warned about character death (let alone not following comic!canon). If a fic kills a character, so what? It's a fanfic; the character will be alive in the next fic you read. And whenever I see the WARNING: Contains Character Death, I spend a large portion of my reading time attempting to figure out which character will be killed and when, rather than really getting into the story.
As I understand it, the original poster wants all post-Chosen fanfic to conform to comic!canon, or warn that it doesn't. Er . . . wouldn't that be post-virtual Season 8 fic? Because there is no requirement for any post-Chosen fic to warn that it doesn't follow something written later. If I write a fic and label it post-Graduation II, I am only responsible for following canon up until the end of G2, right? At least that's my understanding.
And I definitely agree tat I don't get either why anyone would wish to restric their reading to only properly labeled fics that conform in every instance to canon.
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Date: 2007-04-25 03:54 am (UTC)And isn't the whole point of fanfic to tell a story that hasn't been told in canon? If one is writing something new and exciting and wishes to surprise and delight readers, that seems to argue against very detailed summaries. I definitely feel that summaries should warn about things that a lot of people consider squicks - such as incest, slash, BDSM, etc. but I never understood the wanting to be warned about character death (let alone not following comic!canon). If a fic kills a character, so what? It's a fanfic; the character will be alive in the next fic you read. And whenever I see the WARNING: Contains Character Death, I spend a large portion of my reading time attempting to figure out which character will be killed and when, rather than really getting into the story.
As I understand it, the original poster wants all post-Chosen fanfic to conform to comic!canon, or warn that it doesn't. Er . . . wouldn't that be post-virtual Season 8 fic? Because there is no requirement for any post-Chosen fic to warn that it doesn't follow something written later. If I write a fic and label it post-Graduation II, I am only responsible for following canon up until the end of G2, right? At least that's my understanding.
And I definitely agree tat I don't get either why anyone would wish to restric their reading to only properly labeled fics that conform in every instance to canon.
Um . . . what's a thricewise?