Question?

[oneiriad]

Am I the one being weird or is it reasonable enough to have expected, when sitting down to a 20 minute television program entitled Fan fiction, for it to be about, well, fanfic, and not mostly about early Christian gospels? I mean, yes, there was a brief intro to what fanfic is and it was a decent one, except I think uberfic is not quite as common in non-Xena fanfic as the guy made it sound, and then we got to looking at gospels. I mean, I know NT is just OT fanfic complete with ooc-ness and a Mary Sue, but seriously? Kind of disappointed here.

Comments

[piratepurple.livejournal.com]

I would be too. Was there any mention of parallel novels? That was what they called Grendel and The Wide Sargasso Sea back when they were published.

It kind of sounds like it was paid for by a church as a conversion tool the way you describe it. =/

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

Well, when I say program, I mean that one of the Danish tv channels have a cooperation going with the universities, putting together a few lectures and interviews and stuff, focusing on different themes every day - today's was New Forms of Litterature, and had other stuff like that poem William Gibson wrote that self-destructs upon reading. Anyway, it's all public service. And the program mentioned The Wind Done Gone, albeit not by title.

Thing is, the lecture that they called Fan fiction was given by a lektor (not sure what that is in English - lecturer, perhaps?) from a theological institute and he was mostly focusing on talking about how the gospels are like fanfic, in that they continuelly expanded the original canon, offering prequel and sequel and missing-scene bits the further from the original events they where written. Which is actually quite interesting and not particularly conversion-y - particularly since he talked a lot about people making stuff up, but it was basically about the early gospels and how they came into being, and how new Jesus stories are still created, using fanfic as an explanation, rather than a program about fanfic as such - which, considering, was not really what I was hoping for.

[piratepurple.livejournal.com]

Bummer that it wasn't more comprehensive. I've been removed from public places for suggesting the gospels are fanfiction, so I'd love to see this program. Sadly, I think it will be a long time before the US moves that far forward. *sigh*

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

so I'd love to see this program
It's online - at least in DK, I don't know if people outside of the country can see it. That said, it's in Danish, and I'm not sure I'm up to translating 20 minutes worth of program, at least not right now.

Anyway, it should be at this link: http://www.dr.dk/DR2/Danskernes+akademi/Filosofi_Tro_Historie/Fan_fiction.htm , if you're still interested.

[exeterlinden.livejournal.com]

Hey, cool...