| Brandon |
[Jan. 17th, 2009|10:52 am] |
Although I was a Xena fan -- and a passionate one -- I never participated in that fandom in the way I mean now when I talk about "fandom." Queer as Folk is my one and only experience of that. So part of what I'm about to say comes out of a lack of fandom experience, because it involves the issue of minor characters, and I have come to understand that making minor characters into major characters in fanfiction is an established fandom tradition.
Nonetheless, it took me my surprise the first time I saw it happen in QAF, and it continues to feel a bit odd to me. We do it with all kinds of minor characters, from Rodney to Gus to Stockwell to Leda, and whether that's successful or not usually depends on the skill of the author. However...
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