In a message dated 2/25/01 6:12:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, littles@lycos.co.uk writes:
<< H/c didn't originate from B7. It appears, and correct me if I'm wrong, to have originated in Star Trek fandom, years before B7 was written. So regardless of whether British people wrote B7 H/C, its origins were transatlantic.<<
The discussion topic was H/C in B7 fandom. Since the first place B7 was shown was the U.K., and the first zines that came out were indesputably British, and many of them were H/C, by no stretch of the imagination can American B7 fans be blamed for H/C in B7. There's drama in B7 too. Drama existed on American TV before B7 was made. Does this mean that Americans are responsible for all drama in B7? Of course not. That's faulty logic.
Long before American B7 zines took hold, I remember seeing several issues of a popular UK zine named "Wallow." It existed for nothing but H/C. It was British.
Leah
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littles@lycos.co.uk writes:
<< H/c didn't originate from B7. It appears, and correct me if I'm wrong,
to
have originated in Star Trek fandom, years before B7 was written. So regardless of whether British people wrote B7 H/C, its origins were transatlantic.<<
The discussion topic was H/C in B7 fandom. Since the first place B7 was
shown
was the U.K., and the first zines that came out were indesputably British, and many of them were H/C, by no stretch of the imagination can American
B7
fans be blamed for H/C in B7.
Very true, but I think it's reasonable to posit that at least some of those early British B7 writers were familiar with American Trekfic and hence, by that route, the h/c approach. That is not to say that UK writers were incapable of spontaneously creating their own native h/c slant as well. I really don't think this is a national culture thing. UK writers might tend to write h/c in a particular way, and US writers might also tend to write their own h/c in their own particular way, but there is a large area of common ground and I doubt if it would be possible to pin any one story to a UK or US (or Australian/NZ/other) source through the way it is written.
Neil
I said:
<< H/c didn't originate from B7. It appears, and correct me if I'm wrong, to have originated in Star Trek fandom, years before B7 was written. So regardless of whether British people wrote B7 H/C, its origins were transatlantic.<<
Leah said
<The discussion topic was H/C in B7 fandom. Since the first place B7 was shown was the U.K., and the first zines that came out were indesputably British, and many of them were H/C, by no stretch of the imagination can American B7 fans be blamed for H/C in B7.>
Erm, you might want to read my posts more carefully next time. My point was that the genre H/C originated in Star Trek fandom, which, while American in origin, had become well established in Britain before B7 hit the airwaves, and included many people who later became fans of B7. Consequently, the fanfic genre originated in America, later transferred to the UK through Star Trek fandom, and then later became transferred to other UK fandoms (B7, The Professionals, etc.).
< There's drama in B7 too. Drama existed on American TV before B7 was made. Does this mean that Americans are responsible for all drama in B7? Of course not. That's faulty logic.>
Ah, but the Americans learned about drama from the English, years before the invention of the television :).
Shane
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