With ref to your other post today, I wonder if we've reached the stage where the awareness of TV writers that there is a fan fic community out there is actually having a negative impact on their creativity. Are they actually leaving interesting stuff offstage for ficcers to play with, particularly in the sense of relationships inferred but not shown on screen? It's an interesting development, the provision of a joint intertextual playground, but I feel that if the majority of TV drama is being made on that basis it does rob it of a certain artistic integrity. However, I suspect that most writers working in TV or movies today would laugh in your face at the very idea that they could have the luxury of artistic integrity of any kind...
I think DW is particularly embroiled in this intertextual stuff. It struk me when I was watching the latest Aardman movie (the Pirates one) that the humour was very similar - for example there's a pub scene set in the 1840s where everyone's making a big fuss of the characters and the Elephant Man is sitting weeping in a corner, no longer in fashion. And later, the Pirate Captain sees Darwin sitting next to a monkey and says, "Are you two related...No, don't be ridiculous." How DW is that?
The Doctor is a cultural magpie, picking up shiny trifles and scattering them through time and space. And his creative fans have always emulated him, regarding the whole canon and beyond as their playground. I think that's why I've never felt comfortable writing any other fanfic. I feel that DW has more or less been set up for me to add to the creative universe. Other ones feel much more closed to me. But of course YMMV.
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I think DW is particularly embroiled in this intertextual stuff. It struk me when I was watching the latest Aardman movie (the Pirates one) that the humour was very similar - for example there's a pub scene set in the 1840s where everyone's making a big fuss of the characters and the Elephant Man is sitting weeping in a corner, no longer in fashion. And later, the Pirate Captain sees Darwin sitting next to a monkey and says, "Are you two related...No, don't be ridiculous." How DW is that?
The Doctor is a cultural magpie, picking up shiny trifles and scattering them through time and space. And his creative fans have always emulated him, regarding the whole canon and beyond as their playground. I think that's why I've never felt comfortable writing any other fanfic. I feel that DW has more or less been set up for me to add to the creative universe. Other ones feel much more closed to me. But of course YMMV.