Posts by Megan Wegan
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to Gee,
Also, just a note on using Rolleston etc. as an example – I’m sure most people on this forum and elsewhere are not employing a “tone” regarding the _place_ itself so much as the _idea_ of wholesale relocation so far from the city. No offence intended.
Oh, no, I am employing a tone. Mainly because I hate massive subdivisions full of cookie-cutter houses and manicured lawns. But also, because as you say, the idea of a wholesale moving of Christchurch seems, aside from being stupid and expensive, to miss the point of Christchurch being what it _is_. As you say the Garden City. I don't live there any more, but every time I go home, I am struck by what a pretty city it is, and Avonside is one of my favourite parts. The idea of Christchurch as a whole bunch of big parks dotted with brand new suburbs seems very very wrong.
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to David Haywood,
David, are there not enough rumours about me and various Public Address writers without you adding to the pot?
But I know, I have seen photos of the new studios, and it doesn't look nearly like you could host a party there. And the architecture is significantly less mock-tudor, which I think is a loss.
As for Rolleston, I have several family members who live there, and they are very happy to do so. And it has very nice smooth wide roads and footpaths. And The Warehouse there was not busy when I went to buy something on Boxing Day. I am sure it is a very nice place. I'm told the local pub is good.
(It's just a shame it has no personality, is poorly located, and all the houses look exactly the same, and every time I visit, I feel vaguely like I'm going to be chased out of town by people wielding pitchforks.)
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to Lilith __,
Wow, and he's a fast talker, too!
Fast, and smooth.
(Sorry, I will stop now.)
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to Emma Hart,
I don't know how obvious it is if you're not from Chch that when people talk about moving people out to Pegasus or Rolleston, that's not actually part of Christchurch.
Plus, Rolleston? Basically a massive subdivision. It's like saying 'here, let's take you out of your charming, lovingly-restored, heritage home, in the middle of a lovely wooded suburb, close to the city, with good access to _everything_, and move you to a brand new house in subdivision hell, 40 minutes from town including about 10 minutes on the open road'. Um, yeah, no.
Part of me regards the sheer breadth of Mr Haywood’s skillset as bordering on the indecent.
It's really not fair for that much talent to be embodied in one person. He must be bad at _something_.
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Up Front: First, Come to Your Conclusion, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
I can sort of visualise being satisfied with everything I watched or read as presented. I just never managed it myself.
I think it is maybe a matter of just not caring enough. Or recognising that were I to slip down that particular rabbit hole, I'd never get back out.
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Up Front: First, Come to Your Conclusion, in reply to Emma Hart,
Everyone writing on every TV show you watch has done that. How is it different from fanfic?
Yeah, no, like I say, I didn't mean to diss the genre. I actually am interested in why I'm just not interested in it.
I guess, the difference, is the endorsement of the show's creator...The officialdom?
I also think I'm just not that...obsessive a fan. (And I don't mean that in a bad way.) I mean, I watched an episode of Dr Who last week, massively out of order - as in, I've seen the first half of one season, and I watched the end of one about four years later. Poor Emma had to put up with my "who is that guy" questions, and I am pretty sure she was horrified.
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Up Front: First, Come to Your Conclusion, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Believe me, writing really good fanfic takes just as much effort and imagination as writing really good original stories.
Oh, yeah, I didn't mean to imply that it doesn't. God, any kind of good writing is hard. I meant for me as a reader, it just doesn't interest me as much. I don't know why - I am exploring the idea out loud.
Like I said, it is likely snobbery. But see, say, I've never read Joss's Buffy comics, or anything like that. To me, the show was the thing, it's done, I loved it, and that's enough.
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Up Front: First, Come to Your Conclusion, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Still have a very soft spot for Clueless though.
And 10 Things I Hate About You.
Is the difference that they are good?
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Up Front: First, Come to Your Conclusion, in reply to Emma Hart,
So where do we stand on something like this? Parody, surely? (Also, who the hell has my copy?)
I am asking these questions, because I've never been that interested in fanfic as a thing - or for that matter, historical fiction. I'm just not that kind of fan. It's probably snobbery, but I care what Joss wants to do with the characters and the story, not what someone else does. Plus, I don't need someone else's imaginings of what Mal is like in bed, I can get there on my own. (so to speak, etc.)
I thought maybe it was because I don't tend to like the kind of shows that inspire it mostly. But then someone pointed me to a Darcy/Bingley story, and I was still underwhelmed. I just don't get it.
Or, maybe, it's just that I tend to think, if you're gonna write, come up with your own characters and backstory.
(I am also astounded at how little smut there's been in this thread, given it was all about the ridiculous idea that women actually like sex.)
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Up Front: First, Come to Your Conclusion, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Shakespeare nicked the plot of Romeo and Juliet wholesale from a poem, and rewrote it as a play. The Aeneid was a “what happened next” for the Iliad/Odyssey.
So, at what point does it stop being homage, and start being Fanfic, though? I hate those books that are like "let's take a famous novel and make a sequel to it.