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I guess I will always prefer plot-driven fanfic over character studies etc, simply because I feel I already know the characters very well and I don't enjoy the predictability of romance. I loved the crazy-ass myth-arc episodes. Without the myth-arc, Mulder and Scully are just two pretty FBI agents investigating weird shit. I'd never kept watching for that! I'd have forgotten what night it was on and that would have been the end of it.
Seriously, I started watching in 2005 or so, long after the series ended. I think it was on TNT at night and the SciFi Channel? I might have seen some of the early episodes back in the day but my husband (still) hates the show and we (still) only have one TV. I didn't watch the entire series in order until the slimsets were released in 2007. It was the fanfiction that sucked me in--specifically "Life During Wartime" which is a huge multi-author post-colonization fic.
I enjoy the MoW episodes now but initially, not so much. I liked trying to make sense of the ever-more complicated mythology. It's like trying to fit together the pieces of a puzzle. I like puzzles and mysteries.
Many readers enjoy lighter genres of fanfic but there isn't as much of it in this fandom as some, and very little of it is worth reading, imho. Humor is harder to write than almost any other genre. But I'll keep an eye out for that. And if you run into anything you want to discuss, make sure to add it to the nomination post.
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I guess I will always prefer plot-driven fanfic over character studies etc, simply because I feel I already know the characters very well and I don't enjoy the predictability of romance. I loved the crazy-ass myth-arc episodes. Without the myth-arc, Mulder and Scully are just two pretty FBI agents investigating weird shit. I'd never kept watching for that! I'd have forgotten what night it was on and that would have been the end of it.
Seriously, I started watching in 2005 or so, long after the series ended. I think it was on TNT at night and the SciFi Channel? I might have seen some of the early episodes back in the day but my husband (still) hates the show and we (still) only have one TV. I didn't watch the entire series in order until the slimsets were released in 2007. It was the fanfiction that sucked me in--specifically "Life During Wartime" which is a huge multi-author post-colonization fic.
I enjoy the MoW episodes now but initially, not so much. I liked trying to make sense of the ever-more complicated mythology. It's like trying to fit together the pieces of a puzzle. I like puzzles and mysteries.
Many readers enjoy lighter genres of fanfic but there isn't as much of it in this fandom as some, and very little of it is worth reading, imho. Humor is harder to write than almost any other genre. But I'll keep an eye out for that. And if you run into anything you want to discuss, make sure to add it to the nomination post.