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[darsynia]

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Read this post on friendshipper's journal about closed-canon fandom, guys. It made me feel better, especially this bit:

There's a mellowness to closed-canon fanning that's kind of nice. As wonderful as it is to get new canon every week, it's an emotional roller coaster ride as canon changes, stories get jossed, ships run aground and fans freak out over new developments. Once the show's over, we can still write our happily-ever-afters, explore the Pegasus galaxy, and make up detailed life histories for every character -- without any worries of being contradicted by canon or having our favorite characters die.

I can't help but agree, you guys. Since we know there will be movies, as there were with SG-1, and SG-1's films have such an open-ended quality to them, we have a REAL hope of there being that chance for us, too. If this had aired on ABC? We'd know half our beloved characters were going to die in the finale. Also remember that after the finale of season four, they admitted that they'd written The Last Man as it was, and had prepared to air it as-is whether or not they were renewed.

This gives us a high probability that while yes, there will likely be a cliffhanger, the likelihood that they'll drastically alter their plans for the end of season five due to this new information is *highly* unlikely. Now granted, we don't know what those plans are, and we might not like some of the aspects of them. But writing an episode with the intent of coming up with good, solid episodes that will hopefully help carry the series into a new season is very, very different than writing an episode with an eye toward the end of the series.

I expect to lose the folks who aren't comfortable with/can't feel creative with/don't like participating in a fandom without new canon. I feel like I'm losing family members, and hell, sure, that's kind of stupid maybe, but it is what it is, and you get close to people even if you only think of them fondly by username and default icon. I guess I just want to encourage some folks to stay, those of you who don't have trouble with a closed-canon concept to... stick it out and see what happens before running away, worried that there'll be a bare cupboard mentality and that that will be more depressing than getting out early. In any event, we've got 15 more episodes and a movie to look forward to. I'd be more heartbroken than I am now to think that anyone would be willing to jump the train before it even reaches the end of the line, for fear that coming to a stop would be even more painful.

edit: (Changed icon) Wrote this in a comment to thisissirus and found it amusing and true enough to want to share:

I swear to god that if I have to be the maiden Aunt who Doesn't Understand the Glory Days Are Over, I will. I'm still NOT leaving.

Comments

[ailurophile6.livejournal.com]

I couldn't bear to leave SGA fandom at this point, so not having new canon to draw from won't affect me....I'm just worried that no new canon will tremendously decrease the amount of activity that we see, and that people will move on to other, current fandoms and leave me behind...SGA is really the only fandom I have, I'm not going anywhere...

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

I actually enjoyed the climate of the fandom much more between Last man and S&R, because there wasn't as much petty infighting about what episode sucked and who was wrong and what 'ship would ruin fandom blah blah blah.

I dunno if there will be a drastic decrease--I think it'll very much depend on the way it ends. If it ends with any subtext at ALL to follow up on, we'll be on a high for quite a while, wrapping that up in our various ways.

To be brutally honest, I think some people are worried about the BNFs whose attachment to fandom was tenuous at best pre-announcement. Knowing that some of one's favorite authors might be going 'ah! there's the excuse I was looking for. BYE' is enough to get many worried.

[thisissirius.livejournal.com]

Her post is heartfelt and yet upbeat. I love it. It makes me smile even whilst my heart is breaking.

♥

I love you Darsy, and I will still be around!

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

Love you too, you cutie, you! *will gleefully look forward to posts by you*

[gaffsie.livejournal.com]

They will have to pry this fandom out of my cold dead hands.

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

Bahahahhaha. Exactly. <3

[beeej.livejournal.com]

I'm not going anywhere. *plants feet firmly*

[ailurophile6.livejournal.com]

boy, am I glad to hear that! :D

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

\o/

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

As someone who considers BTVS/AtS closed-canon (the comics do not exist for me), I cannot agree more. There is something wonderful in the finite, in knowing what you have to work with... I am very happy in my fandom!


Gabrielle

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

That's very uplifting, thanks sweetie! <3<3

[grammarwoman]

I swear to god that if I have to be the maiden Aunt who Doesn't Understand the Glory Days Are Over, I will. I'm still NOT leaving.

I may not have any plans to be the crazy cat lady, but I will certainly make up for it with lots of crotchety. I ain't leaving neither. Humph.

*hugs you again*

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

Crotchety ftw, I say. NOT LEAVING. NYA NYA NYA.

Crotchety + five year old stubborn = SGA FAN. Bahahhaa. Ahem.

*hugs back*

[cathalin.livejournal.com]

Waaaah! I feel like I just *found* this fandom. I'm very very sad.:(

But, having said that, there's no way I'm leaving! Not even possible. Billions more stories to tell. Billions more I want to read.:)

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

YAY! I love your stuff and would be WOEFUL if you went missing. *stops printing up fliers*

Srsly though, *hearts*

[nakedwesley.livejournal.com]

I think the show ending is going to make me cling to fandom even more! I do hope they leave us with something we can 'work with', with hope for the future.

The main reason I broke away from Angel fandom was because I was so bitterly brokenhearted over what Joss did to Wesley. The entire show was ruined for me.

Glad to hear you'll be sticking around. :o)

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

The main reason I broke away from Angel fandom was because I was so bitterly brokenhearted over what Joss did to Wesley. The entire show was ruined for me.


EXACTLY. Ugh. I haven't even watched past the first half of season four, because of that. *grumbles*

<3

[emrinalexander.livejournal.com]

This is so true. Smallville was my first open canon fandom - a good 20 years after I'd been in various closed-canon fandoms. And yes, the roller coaster ride of possibly being jossed every week, every season, that was a big adjustment. I finally had to stop watching SV when the direction they were taking Lex in became too painful for me to watch any longer. At least with SGA, everything's ending on a high note, there will be at least one movie (hopefully with the whole cast participating) and we get to write whatever further adventures we want.

[kashmir1.livejournal.com]

I swear to god that if I have to be the maiden Aunt who Doesn't Understand the Glory Days Are Over, I will. I'm still NOT leaving.

ME TOO. *firm*

[tikatu.livejournal.com]

I've been in a fandom that's been closed for over 40 years (the 2004 movie is a canon unto itself as far as I'm concerned) and it hasn't stopped me from enjoying myself. It's far more interesting to delve into what wasn't said, and wasn't done, and what could have been done differently.

I also have the advantage of not having a huge amount of background info available - which today's shows tend to develop.

So, be the maiden Aunt. One of my fellow Thunderbirds fans calls herself the "Crazy Cat Lady"... ;D

[winter-elf.livejournal.com]

holds on tightly. I don't plan on going anywhere!!!!!!!!! And I sure hope there are stories for a long, long time