I feel like there's more you wanted to say here. Like your thoughts haven't been fully expressed...
Very interesting read. I understand the "safe" feeling you're proposing with the fanfiction community. So Season 8 isn't safe because we are concurrently distanced from the writers while directly exposed to the characters and the plot? We cannot completely understand the minds of the writers and anticipate the direction of the story. Nor can we escape and find ease in the filter existing between the source text and fanfiction - this filter doesn't exist for Season 8.
So fanfiction feels safe, Season 8 doesn't - presumably BtVS didn't feel safe either? Or is the visual medium meant to bring it's own comfort zone to the viewers?
Does the visual medium of Season 8 contribute or detract from the "safe" feeling? How does the visual medium factor into this theory?
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Very interesting read. I understand the "safe" feeling you're proposing with the fanfiction community. So Season 8 isn't safe because we are concurrently distanced from the writers while directly exposed to the characters and the plot? We cannot completely understand the minds of the writers and anticipate the direction of the story. Nor can we escape and find ease in the filter existing between the source text and fanfiction - this filter doesn't exist for Season 8.
So fanfiction feels safe, Season 8 doesn't - presumably BtVS didn't feel safe either? Or is the visual medium meant to bring it's own comfort zone to the viewers?
Does the visual medium of Season 8 contribute or detract from the "safe" feeling? How does the visual medium factor into this theory?