14 Feb
2001
14 Feb
'01
4:14 a.m.
From: Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net
Tavia said:
Certainly less crude/tasteless than your average office, a lot less language too.
But then, how crude, tasteless and blasphemous could a BBC show have been in those days?
A fan story is not a BBC production. It can be as crude, tasteless and blasphemous as the writer is prepared to make it.
Though I wouldn't go as far as to say that a story has to be any or all of those things. For some interpretations it would be very appropriate, for others entirely out of place. A decent writer should be able to allude to such things without getting gratuitously explicit (but then decent writing is all about alluding to things that aren't actually written down in words).
Neil