From: Mac4781@aol.com
I also can't understand why those who don't like h/c care to analyze it.
I
have no interest in analyzing tech fanfiction or cyberpunk fanfiction or
why
some fans are drawn to those genres. What about h/c makes non-h/c fans so curious?
I can't speak for anyone else who doesn't like h/c, but my curiosity is roused by the preponderance of a take on the series so totally at odds to my own. Perhaps if you were h/c oriented and came into fandom to find it dominated by cyberpunk fiction, then perhaps your curiosity would be likewise piqued. Maybe, maybe not. But if it was, wouldn't you be inclined to ask why all the scope for fascinating character angst was being marginalised?
What I'm really asking, when I analyse h/c, is, "What makes me the odd one out?" If I can get an answer to that question, then I know a bit more about myself and other fans - fans who I want to be able to communicate with on some level of mutual understanding.
I'm not putting h/c - or any other fanfic subgenre - 'on the rack'. I'm not trying to marshall arguments to suggest that is 'bad' fanfic. I'm not trying to insinuate that it should perhaps not be written, nor imply any limit to how much of it should be written. I'm simply curious to know why it exists in such vast quantities and what impels people to interpret the series in this way.
Neil