I dreamt a dream....

[alixtii]

. . . in which there was new Firefly canon. It was airing on SciFi, even though I don't watch SciFi; I was fipping through channels and recognized Summer Glau.

It wasn't good canon; River and Simon were flying on a magic carpet. And everyone was living in a house, and then two houses, and then they built an addition connecting the two houses. [ETA: To be honest, I shouldn't even call it new canon, because it wasn't that, not really. It was a continutation of the text, which I have no doubt every fan would reject as canon.]

But it was on TV. Played by the actors. And as I said before, I could take or leave new canon [new text] if it weren't for the actors. Fanfic keeps me going. But fanfic can't give me Summer Glau's movement or Juliet Landau's voice. I miss these things. I want more.

And then Joss came into my bedroom and explained that it wasn't really new canon [eta: and here I think he meant new canon, because he was being all authorial intention-y like he was when he called the comics canon], it was a fanfic, and gave a long speech on copyright infringement. And I was all, "Do you really expect me to believe someone created a fan film with the original actors? And then aired it on cable television?"

And then I woke up and realized there was no new canon [new text] and was very, very sad.

I want to go back to bed now.

Comments

[echo-of-my-soul.livejournal.com]

Aww! I'm very sad with you. I wish there was new Firefly canon! *sniffles*

[profshallowness.livejournal.com]

Well, the magic carpet was a dream (an echo of how they exited the River brain-stripping instillation in StM, though?) But I think we've all been there, convinced of something happening in a dream and then waking up to find not.

I think I've missed the whole discussion of what constitutes canon in the Ffly 'verse - TV shows as on DVDs and movie, yes? But what's the consensus on everything else?

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

There's a vocal minority of fans who consider the movie to be a separate canon than the show. Beyond that, there doesn't seem to be all that much interest, except when fen deliberately set out to debate what's canon just for the hell of it, over whether the comics or canon or not, so there hasn't been the need for a consensus to emerge. I think Joss thinks they are canon, so there's an authorial intent debate simmering under the surface as well.

I'd accept Magic!Carpet!River and House!Kaylee as a sort of AU. I don't usually read that type of AU, but when it's on the screen played by the original actors that is a whole different type of story.