Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:08:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: rehash of mundanes VS fans or media vs written
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

I don't think it's fair to say that media SF fans
can't distinguish between Sheridan and Boxleiter, for
example.  Yes, there are always a few people on the
fringe who do have that problem, or are unable to
distinguish between real life and Trek (although
wanting to live by the principles that everyone should
respect everyone else and that everyone should have
good quality of life isn't a bad thing).  I started
out reading sf/fantasy, but my first fansoms were
media SF (Star Wars and Dr Who) and was very active in
comics fandom prior becoming more interesting in
written SF fandom.  If I have my timeline right, Neil
Gaiman was writing for comics before he started
writing mainstream SF/fantasy.

Also, as for media fans merely wanting to meet the
actors - what's wrong with wanting to meet the actors
who bring to life the characters I enjoy watching on a
regular basis?  A lot of the actors are pretty
interesting in their own right, are willing to talk
about acting technique, are up on the technical
aspects of tv and movie production and are fun to get
drunk with.  It's been a while since I went to a Trek
convention, but I can recall having an interesting
conversation with Gates McFadden about the
choreography work she did on movies such as Dreamchild
and what it was like to work with Jim Henson on
Muppets Take Manhattan.  And it's been my experience
of Who conventions that folks were just as interested
in meeting the writers and people on the techincal
side as they were in meeting the actors.

--cathy

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