Fanfiction 3/16/07

[scarfman]

Here are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website since last Friday. Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoons in a seperate post.

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Thanks for reading.

Comments

[athelind.livejournal.com]

So, since Joss Whedon is now writing 30 issues of Buffy comic that he has decreed is The Official "Canon" Season 8, are you going to modify her timeline accordingly?

[scarfman]

Even when I believed in canon, I didn't believe in tie-ins.

The BBC charter prohibits BBC tv productions (radio productions too, I suspect) from incorporating elements of tie-ins of the franchise, for the reason that British citizens pay a license fee, a tax, to support the BBC and they oughn't be required to purchase anything else in order to follow the programs aired. Russell Davies can invent his own war that unhappened the Time Lords for tv Doctor Who if he liked the way it was done in the novel series, but he can't allude to events in the novel series. I choose to hold BVS to the same standard. In general I'll trump any franchise's tie-in continuity with its origin medium continuity (except for Superman/DC, where the origin medium and tie-ins are so incestuously cross-continuitous anyway, so I feel free to pick and choose according to the needs of the current project).

Whedon's involvement signifies little to me. To quote my essay against canon, "Even endorsement by the property's creator(s) is no measure, because they change their minds, or forget, or don't care, or took the job over from someone else, or die, or any combination of the above."

Besides, even if I didn't eschew tie-ins it wouldn't require any fiddling with the proration of the BVS/A timeline as it was diagrammed above, because it has room for a BVS season eight simultaneous to Angel season five.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

That sums up my attitude toward most TV and movie series. When I was more active in fandom, my rule of thumb was "if it didn't happen on-screen, it doesn't count" -- and that seems to be the rule that most screenwriters and producers use.

Novels don't count, tech manuals don't count, tie-in comics don't count, deleted scenes on the DVD don't count -- all that matters is the Final Cut. The rest is just a rough draft.

These days, though, I've decided to embrace the Gospel of Hypertime: If I Like It, It "Counts".

[athelind.livejournal.com]

That said... on the Star Trek timeline, does the Animated Series count?

[scarfman]

I think most of the animated episodes' stardates fall within the range on the diagram. I can't find a list on the web, but I remember from the Trimble concordance that they tended to be in the five or six thousands, with Magicks of Megas-Tu an anomaly in the twelve hundreds. But some of what does come up on a websearch says Trimble extrapolated or made up some of the stardates in that volume. Sooo, I dunno.

Do I "count" the animated series? Yes. I just haven't figured out how to render Lt. Arex as a triangle yet.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

So the Cybermen's master plan was directed to the sole purpose of killing off Alaric?

[scarfman]

That's all they accomplished.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm now convinced that if there is ever make a movie about you, they will have to cast Jonathan Togo as you, Paul.

[scarfman]

Okay. I can't comment, cuz I don't know his work.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess Wikipedia would be the best place to start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Togo

You should also check the Wikipedia entry for his best-known role to date:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Wolfe

[scarfman]

That's exectly where I looked in order to verify that this was someone whose work I'm not familiar with.