Annie Wrote:

In a message dated 2/21/01 10:18:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, littles@lycos.co.uk writes:

<< Slash, hurt/comfort... whatever. Rewrite the sentence to read

"...between

fan hurt-comfort fiction and Eng. Lit." and you still get the idea.

Anyway,

we're still talking about what appears to be a transatlantic imposition

on a

British series, which has been retconned back into the series itself. >>

Hmmm. So, you're saying that only us Americans have "forced" the BLakes 7 characters into those naughty little slash stories and that icky

hurt/comfort

stuff? Er, no. Sorry. Not true.

Nope, the English are guilty as well. But hang on, wasn't it you who came on the lyst a few days ago and said that British fans tend not to like H/C and the Americans do, cause for the Americans it's "normal"? Why the change of story?

And, even if it was, so what? I mean, really, "transatlantic imposition on

a

British series"? Because we're American fans we're not allowed to enjoy Blakes 7?

Not saying it at all. Just wanting to propose a deal-- you don't have Avon making gushy speeches about his feelings, and I won't have Spock organise a union on the Enterprise and stage a sit-down in the transporter room. Remember what happened to Doctor Who: 26 years with the Beeb, 90 minutes in America. Half-human, indeed.

series? Just be FANS?

So long as we're fans of the same series.

I don't think so... and I think you're barking up the

wrong tree if you think you're going to have any effect on what other fans say and do, regardless of their nationality.

Not expecting that. Just expressing my opinion, ma'am.

Fans, wherever they are from,

tend to like what they want to like and, in the case of fan writers, write what they want to write. I think everybody all around would be a lot

happier

if they would give up the notion of thinking they can somehow "control"

the

direction of an entire fandom.

Never said I wanted to change your mind. If you want to try to change mine, feel free, but what you said goes double. I think you're confusing me with Diane Gies.

Shane

"I always thought his death and mine would be linked in some way."