I'd like to add, though, that, in addition to the setting and the characters themselves being the turn-ons, I think perhaps the underlying Architype might have a lot to do with it as well, especially when it's mixed with an open-ended 'verse to play in.
With the Harry Potter books (and the Lord of the Rings books) the 'verses there are wide enough that there's enough latitude for the ficcers to play in - and a variety enough of characters living out different architypes that it can be a real fantastical turn-on.
The shows that don't develop fic-followings - from reading the shows listed here, it sounds as if the characters involved aren't engaging or the premise and underlying types aren't deep enough to engage the creative writers in the audience.
In other shows, like Buffy in the first five seasons, especially, the writers covered the architypes and tropes well enough that even though I didn't miss an episode if I could help it, I didn't feel the need to write about the characters or their world at all. Or read fic about them.
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Date: 2008-05-26 06:57 pm (UTC)I'd like to add, though, that, in addition to the setting and the characters themselves being the turn-ons, I think perhaps the underlying Architype might have a lot to do with it as well, especially when it's mixed with an open-ended 'verse to play in.
With the Harry Potter books (and the Lord of the Rings books) the 'verses there are wide enough that there's enough latitude for the ficcers to play in - and a variety enough of characters living out different architypes that it can be a real fantastical turn-on.
The shows that don't develop fic-followings - from reading the shows listed here, it sounds as if the characters involved aren't engaging or the premise and underlying types aren't deep enough to engage the creative writers in the audience.
In other shows, like Buffy in the first five seasons, especially, the writers covered the architypes and tropes well enough that even though I didn't miss an episode if I could help it, I didn't feel the need to write about the characters or their world at all. Or read fic about them.