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Slate suggests that CSI might be the most fanfic-generative show on TV.
Say wha?
I understand the need for a hook for a story, and I have no beef with anyone who does write and/or read CSI fic, but that's just annoying ignorance. (OK, when I checked on ff.net, CSI was a lot closer to the top of the list than I thought it would be, but even assuming ff.net is a good bellwether for overall numbers, Buffy beats it by an order of magnitude, and the Slate story's links to two archives with a total of about 300 stories between them does not help persuade me.) I'd be interested in a story about Grissom's attractiveness, but not a story that has to get its punch by making up an exclusivity/preeminence that doesn't exist.
Say wha?
I understand the need for a hook for a story, and I have no beef with anyone who does write and/or read CSI fic, but that's just annoying ignorance. (OK, when I checked on ff.net, CSI was a lot closer to the top of the list than I thought it would be, but even assuming ff.net is a good bellwether for overall numbers, Buffy beats it by an order of magnitude, and the Slate story's links to two archives with a total of about 300 stories between them does not help persuade me.) I'd be interested in a story about Grissom's attractiveness, but not a story that has to get its punch by making up an exclusivity/preeminence that doesn't exist.
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One of my earliest fandoms was L&O, and for some reason L&O fanfic never really took off. There's always been a fair-sized fanwriting crowd, but not to the extent of other dramas.
The way I read the Boston Globe article was that it wasn't merely distinguishing "real" vs. "fake" writers for point-and-laugh purposes (the BBC did that) but rather to portray fanwriting as something perverse and shameful. The equivalent of trying to represent all literature by showing an excerpt from a yellowback novel. The Washington Post, on the other hand, was surprisingly fair.