The House of Limbo (v1)

2007-01-18 [ArchangelGabriel]: It's very rare for a film to live up to your expectations from a book. I rather liked the hogfather though, not any better than the book as good as a film of it could be..

2007-01-18 [Estantia]: hogfather actually stuck to the plot. harry potter doesn't. I saw how they butchered prisoner of Azkaban and have refused to watch the fourth as the book is my favourite...

2007-01-19 [ArchangelGabriel]: i assure you, you did the right thing.

2007-01-20 [Estantia]: oh good, I'd hate to see it mangled, though from what I've seen the dragon is awful...

2007-01-20 [ArchangelGabriel]: Worse than you could possibly have gathered. I propse a solem moments silence for the death of harry potter!

2007-02-04 [Estantia]: and hope that the fanfiction is a hell of a lot better...

2007-02-05 [ArchangelGabriel]: You know, acctualy, i think it might have been, and that is a little worrying ><

2007-02-05 [Estantia]: fanfiction isn't all bad you know...

2007-02-05 [ArchangelGabriel]: i know it isn't, i just feel that it shows a slight disrespect for the author. I think most people like to write stories or draw them. But when you use some one else's characters, it's like taking a part of some one else's soul and just twisting it into your own mould and that just seems disrespectful. I admit that much fanfic is imaginative and often well written but i feel it's a skill better used on their own works...

2007-02-05 [Estantia]: however if you stay true to their characters and worlds as well as write them well they can be just as good, and possibly better than half the things the official companies do to them. star trek is a prime example of this, all the thought that went into it originally seems to be being forgotten, leading it to become worse quality and causing the fans grief...

2007-02-05 [ArchangelGabriel]: but it's something so personal to the author, something that has been taken from the very depths of their soul...

2007-02-05 [Estantia]: and when the official trustees of those stories betray it the loyal people have to nurture them instead...

2007-02-05 [ArchangelGabriel]: but it just doesn't seem right, it just seems to add insult to the wound ...

2007-02-05 [Estantia]: not if the fans look after it better

2007-02-05 [ArchangelGabriel]: It's a risk i wouldn't want to take. The author should be the only one to be allowed to do anything to the cahracters.. It just doesn't seem right to do anything but....

2007-02-05 [Estantia]: but surely helping other writers to flower by giving them a world to work with is good? and from there they can make their own world.

2007-02-06 [ArchangelGabriel]: i just don't like to share such personal things..

2007-02-06 [Estantia]: that's fine for youthen,but others do.

2007-02-06 [ArchangelGabriel]: realy? i can't say i've ever heard an author praise people who write fan fic...

2007-02-06 [Estantia]: the good ones they do at times, and fanfiction of my stuff I wouldn't mind.

2007-02-06 [ArchangelGabriel]: i think we must agree to disagree on this one