From: Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net
Yes, but as we've both been saying (I think!) some ventures are easier
to
fit in with the canon than others.
OK, but is the venture interesting? well-written? plausible about human motivations? arousing?
IOW, never mind the nutritional value, just enjoy the taste. Slash - the chocolate eclair of fanfic!
Of course, *all* gen is GM-free and organically grown:)
Everything about B7 is fantasy, including canon.
I used to think that the SF/F milieu might be the prime factor permitting the slashing of such series of B7, ST, and the like. That is, that a setting removed from the real world would facilitate the consideration of relationships that would not normally be considered as a serious possibility in the real world. But the slashing of mundane shows like The Professionals, Starsky and Hutch, and even Inspector Morse, rather knocks that one out of the window.
OTOH, it could be that slashing began (as it appears to have done) with ST *because* it was set in an ORL (outside real life) milieu, but having established itself there it spread to fandoms of other shows with IRL milieux.
Was ST the first show (SF/F or otherwise) to be slashed? Was it, indeed, the first show to generate a body of fanfic? (Fanfic of a kind goes back at least to Sherlock Holmes, I think I've heard it said, long before television.)
<Mr Bronson>And for some of us, Dana, Blake's 7 is *not* fantasy, but occupies a locus on the SF/F continuum which resides towards the end we call SF. </Mr Bronson>
Neil