coming in way, way, way late from naominovik (http://www.livejournal.com/users/naominovik/2269.html), and maybe this will be explained later on (Haven't read all 88 comments yet).
But why isn't Mists of Avalon fanfic to your mind? And where would something like Wicked fall? How about West Side Story as compared to Romeo and Juliet? As a fanfic reader, they are all three clearly fanfiction to me. The sort of reimagining, turn canon on its head stuff that MoA and Wicked did are really treasured in parts of the fanfiction community. We like a story that makes us think this thing we thought we knew and loved all the way through again.
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Date: 2004-11-16 09:28 am (UTC)But why isn't Mists of Avalon fanfic to your mind? And where would something like Wicked fall? How about West Side Story as compared to Romeo and Juliet? As a fanfic reader, they are all three clearly fanfiction to me. The sort of reimagining, turn canon on its head stuff that MoA and Wicked did are really treasured in parts of the fanfiction community. We like a story that makes us think this thing we thought we knew and loved all the way through again.