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Jafaria
PostPosted: Tue May 09, 2006 11:23 am    Post subject:
Calluna wrote:
PrincessHikaru wrote:
WTF? There's got to be thousands of people writing fanfiction. The chances of finding a magic lamp in my back yard might be better. I hate to sound cynical, but people shouldn't write fanfiction in the hopes of having it become sequals.
Besides, I know one writer of a TV series I like who refuses to read fanfiction. I never asked her why, but as a writer, I would guess it's because she doesn't like to see the characters she helped to create given personalities and traits that were never intended.

~Hikaru


It's understandable if it's a little kid who doesn't understand what fanfiction really is, but not someone who's been online for awhile.

As with why the original creators don't read fanfics, I'm pretty sure most of the time it's because they're afraid they could be accused of stealing ideas if they ever write anything similar. At least I know that's the case with people who work for Disney, as well as my favorite author Terry Pratchett.


Wow! Your favorite author is Terry Pratchett too? His books are so funny!
persian85033
PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2006 8:39 pm    Post subject:
Maybe Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, or Lady and the Tramp.
AmethystFae
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 7:56 pm    Post subject:
AladdinsGenie wrote:
Disney Princess wrote:
AladdinsGenie wrote:

See, I knew the real thing (my dad is a Greek mythology nut) and it still didn't bother me.


I knew it too; I wasn't bothered, just highly amused. "HOW will they clean up HERCULES?"


As soon as I saw Meg come on the screen I went "Oh Lord, she's going to die!!", but that of course never happened..at least how it was suppose to happen Laughing


Hey, it's just like in The Little Mermaid. My oldest sister told me the story, to refresh my memory, and I was all expecting Ariel to die. Laughing

Ah, well. Many of those tales were passed down through word of mouth before they were written down anyway. I guess it's a matter of picking which version you like best.

~Hikaru
AladdinsGenie
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 7:48 pm    Post subject:
Disney Princess wrote:
AladdinsGenie wrote:

See, I knew the real thing (my dad is a Greek mythology nut) and it still didn't bother me.


I knew it too; I wasn't bothered, just highly amused. "HOW will they clean up HERCULES?"


As soon as I saw Meg come on the screen I went "Oh Lord, she's going to die!!", but that of course never happened..at least how it was suppose to happen Laughing
AmethystFae
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 7:45 pm    Post subject:
Calluna wrote:
PrincessHikaru wrote:
WTF? There's got to be thousands of people writing fanfiction. The chances of finding a magic lamp in my back yard might be better. I hate to sound cynical, but people shouldn't write fanfiction in the hopes of having it become sequals.
Besides, I know one writer of a TV series I like who refuses to read fanfiction. I never asked her why, but as a writer, I would guess it's because she doesn't like to see the characters she helped to create given personalities and traits that were never intended.

~Hikaru


It's understandable if it's a little kid who doesn't understand what fanfiction really is, but not someone who's been online for awhile.

As with why the original creators don't read fanfics, I'm pretty sure most of the time it's because they're afraid they could be accused of stealing ideas if they ever write anything similar. At least I know that's the case with people who work for Disney, as well as my favorite author Terry Pratchett.


I heard that before, too. But I didn't think it was an issue with fanfiction. I know it's why I don't read most fanfiction, though.

~Hikaru
AmethystFae
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 7:42 pm    Post subject:
AladdinsGenie wrote:
PrincessHikaru wrote:
At first, I had refused to watch the Disney Hercules, because I knew that they changed up the myths. But once I started viewing the Greek myths as stories rather than possible facts, I didn't have a problem with the Disney movie.
My husband saw some of it, though, and thought it was weird. See, he's into the live action Hercules TV series, plus he read the books when he was younger, so I can understand how he might view Disney's Hercules.

~Hikaru


See, I knew the real thing (my dad is a Greek mythology nut) and it still didn't bother me. The older I got, that's the more I learned none of these stories are how they are supposed to be. It took me years to learn Oliver and Company was Oliver Twist Laughing



I didn't know it until a commercial that said that it was the story of "Oliver" with a Disney "twist."

~Hikaru
Calluna
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 5:16 pm    Post subject:
PrincessHikaru wrote:
WTF? There's got to be thousands of people writing fanfiction. The chances of finding a magic lamp in my back yard might be better. I hate to sound cynical, but people shouldn't write fanfiction in the hopes of having it become sequals.
Besides, I know one writer of a TV series I like who refuses to read fanfiction. I never asked her why, but as a writer, I would guess it's because she doesn't like to see the characters she helped to create given personalities and traits that were never intended.

~Hikaru


It's understandable if it's a little kid who doesn't understand what fanfiction really is, but not someone who's been online for awhile.

As with why the original creators don't read fanfics, I'm pretty sure most of the time it's because they're afraid they could be accused of stealing ideas if they ever write anything similar. At least I know that's the case with people who work for Disney, as well as my favorite author Terry Pratchett.
Ariellen
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 4:44 pm    Post subject:
AladdinsGenie wrote:

See, I knew the real thing (my dad is a Greek mythology nut) and it still didn't bother me.


I knew it too; I wasn't bothered, just highly amused. "HOW will they clean up HERCULES?"
AladdinsGenie
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 4:13 pm    Post subject:
PrincessHikaru wrote:
At first, I had refused to watch the Disney Hercules, because I knew that they changed up the myths. But once I started viewing the Greek myths as stories rather than possible facts, I didn't have a problem with the Disney movie.
My husband saw some of it, though, and thought it was weird. See, he's into the live action Hercules TV series, plus he read the books when he was younger, so I can understand how he might view Disney's Hercules.

~Hikaru


See, I knew the real thing (my dad is a Greek mythology nut) and it still didn't bother me. The older I got, that's the more I learned none of these stories are how they are supposed to be. It took me years to learn Oliver and Company was Oliver Twist Laughing


Gazmine wrote:
First off- HEY! if you look at my post right above yours i said i like TGMD! ::cries and feels left out::

Anyway, there was a huge forum up but they took it down -cries- there's a nice wide communty of fans on Deviant i've noticed. And they have a few groups on there for fans.


Oooh, three people--We're in business now Laughing

I never go to Deviant Art. I have no idea why...
Gazmine
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 4:04 pm    Post subject:
AladdinsGenie wrote:
VampireNaomi wrote:
Mine would be The Hunchback of Notre Dame, or maybe The Great Mouse Detective. Or Treasure Planet. I must be the only person in the world who didn't like TLM.


I LOVE the Great Mouse Detective, but I don't even know if there's a fandom. It would consist of me and you Laughing


First off- HEY! if you look at my post right above yours i said i like TGMD! ::cries and feels left out::

Anyway, there was a huge forum up but they took it down -cries- there's a nice wide communty of fans on Deviant i've noticed. And they have a few groups on there for fans.
Ariellen
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 3:06 pm    Post subject:
Don't know...I want to say TLM or BatB, but I don't really feel like I 'click' with the FANDOMS for those movies; would those fandoms be more like ours if Aladdin didn't exist? Who knows.

Maybe I would have made parks and resorts my primary Disney fandom.
AmethystFae
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:31 pm    Post subject:
AladdinsGenie wrote:
Calluna wrote:
My second favorite is Hercules, but thinking back to what would have happened if there would have been no Aladdin it probably would have been TLK. Because it was RoJ that actually made me a fan and the whole idea of sequels is what got me thinking about Disney in that way, imagining that the characters have lives outside of the story (I'm probably not explaining this well Laughing ). So probably TLK because it was the next one to come out and if there's no Aladdin there's no RoJ so TLK2 would be the first sequel... but, then TLK2 would probably have never been made if RoJ had never done so well and... argh, so confused! Laughing I love what-ifs but it's much harder with real life than it is with fiction. Laughing


...*smiles and nods* Laughing Nah, I get what you're saying.

Hercules and Tarzan are my third favorites, yet Hercules came out before Mulan. Even though I watch the series and I am familiar with it, I still wouldn't quite be in the fandom. There's so much backstory wth the myths and catching all the references that it would be too much work to be hardcore in the fandom Laughing .


At first, I had refused to watch the Disney Hercules, because I knew that they changed up the myths. But once I started viewing the Greek myths as stories rather than possible facts, I didn't have a problem with the Disney movie.
My husband saw some of it, though, and thought it was weird. See, he's into the live action Hercules TV series, plus he read the books when he was younger, so I can understand how he might view Disney's Hercules.

~Hikaru
AmethystFae
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:26 pm    Post subject:
VampireNaomi wrote:
AladdinsGenie wrote:


I LOVE the Great Mouse Detective, but I don't even know if there's a fandom. It would consist of me and you Laughing


There's a fandom, but I have no idea how big it is. All I know is that there's this crazy girl who is convinced that when she grows up, she will go to work for Disney and that her fanfics will be made into official sequels. She scares the hell out of me. Laughing It's okay to have dreams, but I find it really scary how she seems so sure that everything's going to work out the way she wants to.


WTF? There's got to be thousands of people writing fanfiction. The chances of finding a magic lamp in my back yard might be better. I hate to sound cynical, but people shouldn't write fanfiction in the hopes of having it become sequals.
Besides, I know one writer of a TV series I like who refuses to read fanfiction. I never asked her why, but as a writer, I would guess it's because she doesn't like to see the characters she helped to create given personalities and traits that were never intended.

~Hikaru
AladdinFan92
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 1:55 pm    Post subject: Re: No Aladdin? Now what?
Well,Aladdin was made the year I was born, so for a while, I'd be too small to be part of anything. But I would be part of the Pochahontas fandom at some point, because that's my second favorite movie. Very Happy
AladdinsGenie
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:00 pm    Post subject:
Calluna wrote:
My second favorite is Hercules, but thinking back to what would have happened if there would have been no Aladdin it probably would have been TLK. Because it was RoJ that actually made me a fan and the whole idea of sequels is what got me thinking about Disney in that way, imagining that the characters have lives outside of the story (I'm probably not explaining this well Laughing ). So probably TLK because it was the next one to come out and if there's no Aladdin there's no RoJ so TLK2 would be the first sequel... but, then TLK2 would probably have never been made if RoJ had never done so well and... argh, so confused! Laughing I love what-ifs but it's much harder with real life than it is with fiction. Laughing


...*smiles and nods* Laughing Nah, I get what you're saying.

Hercules and Tarzan are my third favorites, yet Hercules came out before Mulan. Even though I watch the series and I am familiar with it, I still wouldn't quite be in the fandom. There's so much backstory wth the myths and catching all the references that it would be too much work to be hardcore in the fandom Laughing .

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