Re: Comments from Sonic list about fan-fic (fwd)

From: Erich Schulman (KTN4CA) Team OS/2 <"Erich>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 19:41:05 -0500 (EST)

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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 10:55:07 -0800 (PST)
From: D.M. Quozl Falk <quozl_at_netcom.com>
To: Ron Bauerle <BAUERLE_at_engr.erie.ge.com>
Cc: aa2043_at_freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu, nefaria_at_aol.com,
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Subject: Re: Comments from Sonic list about fan-fic

I'm writing this at CF7, BTW...

> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 06:49:18 -0500 (EST)
> To: sonic_at_bort.mv.net
> From: mighty_at_en.com (Doug LoConti)
> Subject: Problems with fanfic
>
> Ahh yes, the glories of writing your own stories about our favorite blue
> wonder..... new friends arrive, old friends go....and, though the wonder and
> simplicity of writing a story comes the trouble....it's not all as simple as
> it seems. Back in my AOL and Fraudigy days, there were many talented
> writers on both nets that liked to expand the stories and even update Sega's
> views on how Mobius should run. But, as I fly through the stories, numerous
> conflicts between them arise. One simple conflict would be (I won't go into
> specifics, and this is NOT an attack for those that cannot determine that,)
> in one story I read Uncle Chuck is alive, well, and "de-robotisized", and it
> another, (the one I prefer, because as of now, I don't think their is (or
> should be) a way to de-robotisize people,) he is still under Robotnick's
> controll, and a full robot. This brings two problems: 1) Is any one right?
> That is, which story flies? And 2) Can there/should there be different
> stories going? Well, I've decided we need to have stories meet, and
> (through a SINGLE story I'm working on, very long,) I may be able to do it.

Truth be, no single story is ever really "right" or "wrong", but simply a
matter of how the writer views the characters. That being said, there's
also different versions of what is "canon" in the StH universe, coming
from Sega, two versions from DiC, and the ever-evolving Archie comics, as
well as a sort of "shared universe" here on the Internet with certain
original characters created by fan writers that get used by others, such
as Bookshire and Packbell.

....Quozl!


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