The Round Table - Who Will Bridge The Gap?

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I was reading the interview at Del Floria's that features orockthro , a new and young version of the MFU fan.  You can find that interview HERE She has written some stellar stories for the fandom, and to be honest, I don't think any of us older writers could have done it with the same attitude and style.  There really is a difference between writing from our perspective and that of the younger generations that didn't live in the 60's.
The film version of The Man from UNCLE has been done as a 'period piece', meaning they've tried to capture that era as well as is  possible, but it's not going to feel like the 60's, no matter how much care is given to the task.  That's fine, I'm not  complaining, I am merely struck by  how different the interpretation is from those who were there, the first generation if you will, and those who have come along a few decades later.  We all try to paint a similar picture, but somehow the strokes are going to be inherently, vastly different.
That's not a bad thing, and infact, when reading the stories by writers like orockthro, I'm impressed by how tangibly fresh it seems.  Same characters, same old UNCLE and yet... it isn't.
I don't know if I have a question, but I'm interested in what other people think about this.  Will it change the fandom to have writers coming in who see the 60's from their perspective?  How will we fare, the older, original fans?
Brave New World?  I wonder...

Comments

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

It's difficult to pin down specifics, but it's there nonetheless. When I write about the 60's environment, I'm doing so because I remember it. Even the show sometimes fails to represent what really was because the writers of the show were older, and not necessarily engaged in the moment. That sounds contradictory in a way, but their efforts at portraying the youth culture was generally pretty lame, and even their token blond Beatle was 10 years older than the group he supposedly resembled.
Writing about it now, we older cousins do tend to put some of our own version of 'muscle memory' into the stories, while the younger writers have an edge that is lacking elsewhere. Your story that you rec'd yesterday, for example, could only come from you. It's a different kind of interpretation of things, even if we sometimes delve into AU; the results are different because our viewpoints cannot possibly be the same.
As for fanfiction, I've only been at this for about four and half years, so the earlier stuff and methodology belongs to another set of writers. Even that is marked by a different sense of story construction , or mood... something. I think the newer stories sometimes lack finesse, but that may be due to greater numbers, and that in turn is due to the internet.

[orockthro.livejournal.com]

Writing about it now, we older cousins do tend to put some of our own version of 'muscle memory' into the stories
Interesting! :D I can totally see how that would be the case.

As for new fic, I wonder if it isn't just the speed. Zines, my understanding is, had hard deadlines so authors would write and edit until a zine went to print. Now we publish fic whenever the hell we feel like it. XD The speed has probably been amped up when it comes to fic production.