I think it makes sense to me, especially from the point of view of a creator as opposed to the POV of the reader/consumer. It's much easier to take the structure of Cinderella or B&B or Snow White and transplant them in modern retellings or fantasy novels. Whereas Buffy hasn't quite reached that archetypal status for most people. For me, I think it has, or else I've started seeing so many archetypes in it that a loving boyfriend turned monstrous or a sacrificial suicide/suicidal sacrifice automatically remind me of Buffy.
But yeah, I think re-writing Buffy for the commercial market would be particularly difficult without impinging upon copyright, while fairy tales are more creative commons. And while fanfiction is very far from commercial (at least in most places I've seen), it is very hard to identify with the stories without having the specific story of Buffy in one's head, while a retelling of a fairy tale would be much more resonant without identifying details.
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Date: 2004-10-20 10:26 pm (UTC)But yeah, I think re-writing Buffy for the commercial market would be particularly difficult without impinging upon copyright, while fairy tales are more creative commons. And while fanfiction is very far from commercial (at least in most places I've seen), it is very hard to identify with the stories without having the specific story of Buffy in one's head, while a retelling of a fairy tale would be much more resonant without identifying details.