thread: 2005-07-05 : Setting and Source Material
On 2005-07-12, Vincent wrote:
Ah! This was in one of my comments that I lost, in response to John Kim: when I say "critical" I mean it in the sense of "approaching critically" or "thinking critically about," not in the sense of being mean to. You can critically affirm someone else's work, for sure.All of this you wrote - "...the people writing within it's strictures use to develop entirely new, but compatible storylines and engage in sophisticated new narratives. The authors may also comment on the original and real world issues etc. But the approach of the authors need not be critical of the original in order to play with it and extrapolate the source material to natural extensions of the work, or transcend it." - falls within what I mean by "critical."
As far as fanfic goes as such - what do I know? I suppose I could and should say "pastiche" instead.
