Your generalisations about 'this fandom' amuse me. I don't mean that all that snarkily, it's just that you're often treating LoM fandom as some homogenous group, and --- didn't the ending discussion on lifein1973 show you that some of your assumptions in that way are, at least partly, wrong? Hell, some of the more prominent LoMfans are contradictory in themselves, so what do you think the rest of the fandom's like?!
Anyway, neither of them is all that compatible with the more 'extreme' versions of Sam that are current in this fandom.
Well, obviously - but that's because they're extremes! The same could be said for any character in any fandom. Fan writers, often very wisely, concentrate on two or three aspects to explore; of a character, of a situation, of a genre. Certain elements get ignored, or pushed to the side, or downplayed.
You can, very plausibly, have an irate, "I know everything, you know nothing" violent Sam. You can also, very plausibly, have a, "my world is crumbling, I wanna crawl into the hole in the wall" crying Sam. Two extremes, same character. In a fan fic, you don't get the wonderful acting talents of JS, you don't get smash cuts and the thrill of visuals (car chases!) to break up what might be a confusing characterisation shift. You can't convey as much, so you concentrate. With concentration, you can get an extreme.
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Date: 2008-02-20 01:18 pm (UTC)Anyway, neither of them is all that compatible with the more 'extreme' versions of Sam that are current in this fandom.
Well, obviously - but that's because they're extremes! The same could be said for any character in any fandom. Fan writers, often very wisely, concentrate on two or three aspects to explore; of a character, of a situation, of a genre. Certain elements get ignored, or pushed to the side, or downplayed.
You can, very plausibly, have an irate, "I know everything, you know nothing" violent Sam. You can also, very plausibly, have a, "my world is crumbling, I wanna crawl into the hole in the wall" crying Sam. Two extremes, same character. In a fan fic, you don't get the wonderful acting talents of JS, you don't get smash cuts and the thrill of visuals (car chases!) to break up what might be a confusing characterisation shift. You can't convey as much, so you concentrate. With concentration, you can get an extreme.