All fic is AU. Discuss.

[WraithRichard]

Fanficing stuff is not new. Even stuff that messes with the previous stuff.

[mathpiglet]

Don't you love stuff like that?

I do. You find all kinds of fun stuff when you go looking. You see people who seemed so interested and then only posted a few times. I always wonder what made them decide to stop posting.

[WraithRichard]

I do. You find all kinds of fun stuff when you go looking. You see people who seemed so interested and then only posted a few times. I always wonder what made them decide to stop posting.

To be honest, I've considered it after a long lull, but you guys always post something interesting and/or hilarious to draw me back.

[s09119]

It's easy to lose momentum with fanfiction. If all your early reviews are "Meh" to "Dumb," why would you want to keep writing for that audience?

[WraithRichard]

It's easy to lose momentum with fanfiction. If all your early reviews are "Meh" to "Dumb," why would you want to keep writing for that audience?

Or, as many of my fandoms have, you run out of people to talk to. The thing become isolated and stagnant and boring.

[SF_and_Coffee]

I hope SG never becomes stagnant and boring!

[thekillman]

i love to see the brain children (more like brain civilization) of the Gateworld Fleets make it to Stargate. ranging from the Nomad project (ships sent out by earth to "seed" subspace buoys to speed up first contact and explore galaxies further away) which bears resemblance to Destiny and it's seedships, to the Drones and their resemblance of the Swarm(machine species made to fight a war from one side. eventually they adapted to their failsafe, and overcame their masters and continued their programming)



i love fanfic because it offers great food for thought.

[WraithRichard]

i love to see the brain children (more like brain civilization) of the Gateworld Fleets make it to Stargate.
i love fanfic because it offers great food for thought.

If fanfic is food for thought, my food probably leaves a bad taste in one's mouth.

[thekillman]

i don't know.

S09's food is what nurtures my brain when i crave for stargate

[mathpiglet]

It's easy to lose momentum with fanfiction. If all your early reviews are "Meh" to "Dumb," why would you want to keep writing for that audience?

Hmmm. That's true.

Or, as many of my fandoms have, you run out of people to talk to. The thing become isolated and stagnant and boring.

This place is huge with an enormous number of posters! I don't think you will run out of people to talk to for ages!

I hope SG never becomes stagnant and boring!

Three series with many years of episodes. It should continue for a long time yet. Many people may still become fans even without new episodes airing.

[WraithRichard]

Three series with many years of episodes. It should continue for a long time yet. Many people may still become fans even without new episodes airing.

I only recently managed to permanently get into it (my fiancée nearly ruined it for me).

[mathpiglet]

I started watching just over a year ago. I needed something to watch while I was on the treadmill and my son suggested this.

[thekillman]

Three series with many years of episodes. It should continue for a long time yet. Many people may still become fans even without new episodes airing.

it has generated sufficient material to create original fiction for decades. which is precisely why MGM will never permanently abandon it. in terms of analogies, we're in the fridge.

Stargate itself has a beautiful premise because the Gate is an artifact which allows low-threshold interstellar travel. unlike ship-based or jump-point based stories

[Kunoichi]

I count myself lucky to have been a fan of the franchise since the film came out! I think (and hope) that there is enough fan interest to keep discussions going for a long time to come. If any form of the show is still being transmitted on tv, there will always be new fans being attracted and there are plenty of long term fans who are happy to keep things ticking over. Look at other fandoms, Trek has keep going with periods of time where there hasn't been much new material to work with and so has Star Wars.

I think there is definitely an argument for fanfic being AU. If someone writes a fic that deviates from canon, then it is pretty much AU. So all shipper fic that involves a relationship that hasn't been confirmed, at the stage in the SG timeline the fic is set, is AU. Any fic where the characters behave in a fashion that the onscreen characters wouldn't is AU or fic written to 'correct' a plotline the author didn't like is AU.

[mathpiglet]

I count myself lucky to have been a fan of the franchise since the film came out! I think (and hope) that there is enough fan interest to keep discussions going for a long time to come. If any form of the show is still being transmitted on tv, there will always be new fans being attracted and there are plenty of long term fans who are happy to keep things ticking over. Look at other fandoms, Trek has keep going with periods of time where there hasn't been much new material to work with and so has Star Wars.

I think there is definitely an argument for fanfic being AU. If someone writes a fic that deviates from canon, then it is pretty much AU. So all shipper fic that involves a relationship that hasn't been confirmed, at the stage in the SG timeline the fic is set, is AU. Any fic where the characters behave in a fashion that the onscreen characters wouldn't is AU or fic written to 'correct' a plotline the author didn't like is AU.

Many authors would argue that the way they write the canon characters is completely believable even if it was not shown on screen. I tend to think that any fiction written by a non-sanctioned author is AU. Some AU may be very close to canon, but it's still AU. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.