Comments on: Tie-In Writers and the Mono-Medium Logic Problem http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com/2007/10/tie-in-writers-and-the-mono-medium-logic-problem/ An archive of the first few exciting years exploring this area... Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:28:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: christy http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com/2007/10/tie-in-writers-and-the-mono-medium-logic-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-510 christy Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:32:05 +0000 http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com/index.php/2007/10/03/tie-in-writers-and-the-mono-medium-logic-problem/#comment-510 <p>Hello Vee,</p> <p>Nice insights. :)</p> <p>I've half-jokingly said to industry in presentations that on the one-hand there is an increased ability with digital technologies and broadcasting opportunities facilitating more uncommissioned creations, and on the other hand so-called primary creators are doing what fanfic creators used to do. I've wondered too, how fans feel about this...and given your comments on being irritated by excessive synchronic texts, what point is too much? In other words, at what point do creators thwart co-creation? </p> <p>I think your comments about disambiguation, developments being closed off and fixed interpretations offers some indications. There needs to be air to breathe, gaps and the opportunity for play. But if initial creators played with their texts -- doing their own inversions and so on...what would happen then? Would fans then fill in the gaps and create traditional extensions?...</p> Hello Vee,

Nice insights. :)

I’ve half-jokingly said to industry in presentations that on the one-hand there is an increased ability with digital technologies and broadcasting opportunities facilitating more uncommissioned creations, and on the other hand so-called primary creators are doing what fanfic creators used to do. I’ve wondered too, how fans feel about this…and given your comments on being irritated by excessive synchronic texts, what point is too much? In other words, at what point do creators thwart co-creation?

I think your comments about disambiguation, developments being closed off and fixed interpretations offers some indications. There needs to be air to breathe, gaps and the opportunity for play. But if initial creators played with their texts — doing their own inversions and so on…what would happen then? Would fans then fill in the gaps and create traditional extensions?…

]]> By: vee http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com/2007/10/tie-in-writers-and-the-mono-medium-logic-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-511 vee Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:00:54 +0000 http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com/index.php/2007/10/03/tie-in-writers-and-the-mono-medium-logic-problem/#comment-511 Speaking from the consumer/fan perspective, problem #1 with official additional-text is canon reconciliation. Not "and then canon grew faster than I could keep up with it," but "Wait, I was supposed to have a plan?" Some creators know where they're going from the start, but I think most of them don't. The more synchronic paratexts (simultaneous additions to canon) and extratexts (simultaneous commentaries on canon) the creators provide, the more they back themselves into a corner. Ambiguous events are disambiguated; potential developments are closed off; interpretive lenses are focussed so specifically that it requires actively disobedient reading to get a new interpretation. I like to say that creators who put out excessive synchronic text are doing the fan's job for her -- and that's sometimes irritating enough to put me off the text entirely. (We won't even get into those synchronic paratexts that actively contradict canon, because I agree they tend to be just stupid mistakes and/or "oh it doesn't matter" outsourcing, Supernatural comics I am looking at YOU.) Speaking from the consumer/fan perspective, problem #1 with official additional-text is canon reconciliation. Not “and then canon grew faster than I could keep up with it,” but “Wait, I was supposed to have a plan?”

Some creators know where they’re going from the start, but I think most of them don’t. The more synchronic paratexts (simultaneous additions to canon) and extratexts (simultaneous commentaries on canon) the creators provide, the more they back themselves into a corner. Ambiguous events are disambiguated; potential developments are closed off; interpretive lenses are focussed so specifically that it requires actively disobedient reading to get a new interpretation.

I like to say that creators who put out excessive synchronic text are doing the fan’s job for her — and that’s sometimes irritating enough to put me off the text entirely. (We won’t even get into those synchronic paratexts that actively contradict canon, because I agree they tend to be just stupid mistakes and/or “oh it doesn’t matter” outsourcing, Supernatural comics I am looking at YOU.)

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