Especially since you just don't know what a fic will turn out to be, whether it will be what you dreaded or a wonderful surprise. You don't know until you read (which is usually the part where people will say to stick with the authors you know. But being a fandom of an ongoing show, that means new authors coming out of the woodworks what feels like all the time, and you never know when an author will pop up that writes exactly the kind of stories you're looking for).
*nodnod* Exactly - especially since I'm relatively new to the fandom, so I don't know which are the authors whose take on the characters is similar enough to my own to be "safe", and which authors I ought to be cautious about. Although I'm figuring it out ... And this isn't meant to imply any sort of value judgment on any authors for not writing the sort of fic I enjoy. It's just that I'm still in the "getting oriented" phase of being in a new fandom, and it's sort of unfortunate that I happened to come into it during a contentious time. Although I gotta say, it looks like there is always a little of that sort of thing, due to the writers' tendency to throw things out of the woodwork at us. *g*
This show is wonderful about keeping things as they are even in the face of major plot changes. They've been awesome about keeping it fresh without sacrificing what we love about the show. I find it makes the cliffhangers easier to handle, because I know that whatever happens it's going to work out.
Yes! It seems to me that it's at least partly a matter of the writers' priorities being fairly closely aligned with the fandom. For the most part, what the writers value about the characters and their relationships seems to be pretty close to what we value in them, too. I'm not especially concerned about this show killing off a major character or even permanently driving a wedge between the characters. (I just have to keep reminding myself of that. And I plan to keep more of an open mind and a positive attitude in the back half of season three than I did during the first half!)
I do know a teeny, tiny spoiler about what the new story arc might be in season four. It's all speculation on my part beyond that one thing, but do you want to know, or would you rather be completely surprised?
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*nodnod* Exactly - especially since I'm relatively new to the fandom, so I don't know which are the authors whose take on the characters is similar enough to my own to be "safe", and which authors I ought to be cautious about. Although I'm figuring it out ... And this isn't meant to imply any sort of value judgment on any authors for not writing the sort of fic I enjoy. It's just that I'm still in the "getting oriented" phase of being in a new fandom, and it's sort of unfortunate that I happened to come into it during a contentious time. Although I gotta say, it looks like there is always a little of that sort of thing, due to the writers' tendency to throw things out of the woodwork at us. *g*
This show is wonderful about keeping things as they are even in the face of major plot changes. They've been awesome about keeping it fresh without sacrificing what we love about the show. I find it makes the cliffhangers easier to handle, because I know that whatever happens it's going to work out.
Yes! It seems to me that it's at least partly a matter of the writers' priorities being fairly closely aligned with the fandom. For the most part, what the writers value about the characters and their relationships seems to be pretty close to what we value in them, too. I'm not especially concerned about this show killing off a major character or even permanently driving a wedge between the characters. (I just have to keep reminding myself of that. And I plan to keep more of an open mind and a positive attitude in the back half of season three than I did during the first half!)
I do know a teeny, tiny spoiler about what the new story arc might be in season four. It's all speculation on my part beyond that one thing, but do you want to know, or would you rather be completely surprised?