Random question of the day

[hmpf]

Why *is* it that Life on Mars fandom produces about ten times the crack as, say, Farscape and Highlander fandom combined? (And so much less angst than you'd think, considering the hyper-angsty premise?)

Comments

[enlight-bystand.livejournal.com]

On the angst thing, perhaps because the original already deals with the agnst, fandom doesn't feel as obliged to help?

Hm. But in my experience...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

angsty source texts draw angst fen. Who then proceed to produce angsty fic. Which, to be fair, does happen in LoM fandom - just not quite as much as I would have expected.

[loz]

Are you forgetting how very funny and non-angsty the show could also be?

Not at all.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

But you've seen Farscape, right? Totally cracky, in a very funny way, sometimes; totally angsty at other times. Yet there isn't a *fraction* of LoM fandom's amount of crack in FS fandom.

Just wonderin', is all. I'm not saying there shouldn't be this amount of crack in LoM fandom - just that I haven't encountered it as a mass phenomenon in my previous fandoms. So, being the armchair anthropologist that I am, I'm set to wondering why that may be. And I still don't really have a theory.