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Current mood:	thoughtful
Entry tags:	about me, fandom: is, meta

Remix: My Definition / My Thoughts
Now that I've got 'the day' post out of the way. I have a post I'm working on about the tv shows I watch vs what's actually on the screen. But I want to write this little bit first.

My beloved former roommie and boston marriage wife of - wait would it be former wife? Ok whatever - witchqueen.livejournal.com now zvi-likes-tv.livejournal.com knowing that The Sentinel fic is my comfort fic of choice, sent me here to read about this wonderful AU that spins the premise of Sentinels and Guides and incorporates characters from other shows who'd fit into the formula.

I really enjoyed it, from Jessica Fletcher (yes, you heard me) all the way down. It's a series I will continue to look forward to reading. But it made me think about fandom and remixes and original product.

I realized I think of Imperfections as a Remix of PetFly's universe. A wonderful, well thought out, cracky and funny and poignant remix, but a remix. This is how else things could have gone, given a and b and a little of z y and #2.

I realize that not all fanfic falls into this, because there are stories that are deleted scenes and stories that are 'The Continuing Adventures'; just like the show but in text. But slash and AU pairings, isn't it all a remix? Isn't it all a retake on the plots and how the characters developed? Maybe even why they developed?

Anyway, pondering this I realized that a lot of my favourite story telling, fanfic wise is Remix of Canon. I love the AU verses which seem to hint that this is what could have happened if the show had been pitched like this instead of like that or if the creators had their eyes opened about racial inequities, various cliches and tropes, othering and the invisible powerful woman; she's there, somewhere, but doesn't get much screen time.

This post isn't really meant as a "And that's why people who don't want their babies to be remixed are...." - insert your opinion here, for or against. This is mostly about me realizing that I'm not likely to get either side of that, because for the most part the minute you change something; the moment you make me think "Oh... so this is what would have happened if", even if it's just a case/planet/whatever they never saw/dealt with on the show, but that would have affected the characters away from the status quo - I think remix.

I wanted to add little bit here about elseworlds and comics and the tv show Smallville and how much I think it could have benefited from being thought of a remix of Superman Canon- so the producers didn't have to keep hopping forward to milestones 'just because' despite the rest of the hands flailing at them in the universe. But the thoughts are not at all clearly out. I tend to just throw up my hands with SV anyway. Huh, I wonder if I think it's an incredibly bad Remix of Comic Canon Superman? Hmm. That puts a new spin for how I process remakes.

*goes to think more thinky thoughts*