In a message dated 3/3/01 11:28:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, N.Faulkner@tesco.net writes:

<< Which is the question I was trying to answer, as should have been abundantly clear. It is a state of mind that makes B7 British, and it happens to be *my* state of mind, which means more to me than the Union Jack, Her Maj, Cadbury's Creme Eggs or driving on the left. I don't appreciate anyone trying to dispossess me of it. Least of all because it's the strongest connection that holds me to the series itself. >>

There's nothing wrong with that, Neil. But I believe it was you who made the comment that fan writers had no right to "Americanize" the characters because the show and the characters were British (apologies if it was someone else but I have no time nor inclination to go back through the archives... in any case, *someone* said it). To you, it is a state of mind that the characters are British. To others of us, the characters are members of the Federation. There is no "American" and "British" attitude to attribute to the characters when those of us who feel that way write the characters. Fan fiction is all about possibilities. If you want to write your characters to be what you perceive as "British" in manner, have at it. I'm not going to tell you not to, although I disagree that the internal universe of B7 reflects a British society.

BTW, regarding another aspect of this discussion, I don't recall who made the original comments about shifting from video to film, etc., but it occurred to last night that this is done on American soap operas all the time (when they go on location, usually) and has been done as long as I can remember.

Annie