Perhaps I should have specified "a GOOD story" *grin*
One that includes those things you mention - honesty and continuity.
Of course there's always litfic where continuity is optional (I never COULD get into "cloud atlas", for instance, which is sort of genre but genre masquerading as high-falutin' litfic and it just LOST me completely), and there's always people pulling a Frey if they think they can get away with that. But yes, from where I stand, I owe that story - the story which has feet to stand on its own, has a beginning a muddle (not a typo) and an end, and which has internal consistency of a sufficient quantity to be able to support itself on it. And characters who behave in ways which mesh with the story's reality, in teh sense that I get extraodinarily annoyed at "Adaptations" of jane Austen peopled with twentieth century people with twentieth century attitudes mouting Autsenesque platitidues and coming off as a parody or a mocking rather than a serious story... but that's another can of worms entirely.
in other words, what I wanted to say was, well said.
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Date: 4 Jan 2007 06:47 pm (UTC)One that includes those things you mention - honesty and continuity.
Of course there's always litfic where continuity is optional (I never COULD get into "cloud atlas", for instance, which is sort of genre but genre masquerading as high-falutin' litfic and it just LOST me completely), and there's always people pulling a Frey if they think they can get away with that. But yes, from where I stand, I owe that story - the story which has feet to stand on its own, has a beginning a muddle (not a typo) and an end, and which has internal consistency of a sufficient quantity to be able to support itself on it. And characters who behave in ways which mesh with the story's reality, in teh sense that I get extraodinarily annoyed at "Adaptations" of jane Austen peopled with twentieth century people with twentieth century attitudes mouting Autsenesque platitidues and coming off as a parody or a mocking rather than a serious story... but that's another can of worms entirely.
in other words, what I wanted to say was, well said.