International Geek-Out Report (and a note on catching up)

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First, the note: I haven't gotten any further with my LJ catch-up plans because it was the last week-and-a-half of term and I was busy doing university stuff (except for the three days beccatoria was visiting me, when I was busy geeking out). Will get around to the catching up next week, I think.

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Now for the International Geek-Out Report.

beccatoria arrived on Friday and left on Tuesday; in between lay three days of unrestrained geekiness. We watched all of Life On Mars and nine eps of Battlestar Galactica. Thankfully, she turned out to like LoM and I turned out to like BSG S3. We sang the chicken song. We had loads of crisps and sweets and other unhealthy food. We watched fanvids. We decided that Gene Hunt is the God of Children and should open an orphanage with Adama. We decided that Saul Tigh was a Russian intellectual in another life. We pointed at the screen screaming "battle shorts!!!" in unison. We visited the future of the 1980s and the Frankfurt University book warren. We talked writing and politics and Star Wars (I now know everything about the Star Wars Extended Universe.)

When she left I told her to write fanfic, and she did! And it rocks! (Sorry, beccatoria - I know I said I'd give more detailed feedback but I haven't gotten around to it yet - uni interfered.)

beccatoria also gave me a live read-through and betaing session of "68 Wives", which she loved and said is actually a lot more ready for publication than I thought it was. So, I may actually publish that *really* soon. (amonitrate, you got time for some beta reading?) I also showed her the Maya fic, which she didn't like so much - possibly, as we tentatively concluded, because it is unashamedly fanficcy, in an 'easy' way. Which is exactly what it is supposed to be, and I think it does the job it's supposed to do - namely, lovingly circling an emotion - so I'm fine with that. It's essentially emotion porn, no more, no less.

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In other news, somehow I am now completely zen about any changes to Life On Mars canon that season two may possibly bring about. Oh, and I won a Magic Alex CD. :-)

Comments

New canon

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"New canon" means the canon that will be established by series two, i.e. new stuff that might throw a monkey wrench into all our theories and our fics and so on. I don't define our creativity as a 'problem'. I don't really define new canon as a 'problem', either - it just made me uneasy to think about for a while because I have become quite used to, not to mention quite emotionally invested in some of my ideas and speculations about how the show is going to continue/end, and if the show takes a radically different route I may be disappointed, depending on how well I think the route they choose works. There are quite a few ways the show could end that I can imagine being disappointed by, but, as I said, I am now quite zen about it.

Also, it will be more difficult to keep working on some of my fics, depending on which route the show will take. I don't like having to bend canon too far, unless I'm deliberately writing an alternate universe scenario, and I'm afraid that some of the possible endings for the show could ruin my fics quite thoroughly, or at least make it necessary for me to turn them into radical AUs, which I'm not very eager to do. I like AUs, but I like my AUs to be created by deliberate decision, not caused accidentally by the addition of new canon while I'm still writing. This is why I prefer writing for 'dead' shows, or if I'm writing for 'live' shows, to write 'filler' material that won't conflict with future developments. Unfortunately with Life On Mars I've embarked on several 'post last episode' stories, I really don't know why. But I don't want to abandon them, either.