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?)
You may wonder why I keep the distinction of 'canon Sam' if I admit that it's essentially *my* canon Sam, thus admitting the relativity of canon... This is because there is a distinction in my head between 'my canon Sam' (i.e. my interpretation of his character in canon), and 'my Sam' (i.e. a character who diverges from my interpretation of canon Sam in some significant and deliberate ways).
Plus, there's that thing I've had at least three debates about in LoM fandom so far ;-), where I am a bad postmodernist because I say that not *everything* is relative and up for interpretation (although everything is *totally* up for *reinterpretation*), and that there is actually such a thing as, hmm... the authority of the text.
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Date: 2008-02-20 01:55 pm (UTC)Plus, there's that thing I've had at least three debates about in LoM fandom so far ;-), where I am a bad postmodernist because I say that not *everything* is relative and up for interpretation (although everything is *totally* up for *reinterpretation*), and that there is actually such a thing as, hmm... the authority of the text.