I feel like "remakes that are better than the original movie" might be even more controversial than "adaptations that are better than the original book", even though as with adaptations there are actually tons of these that people just don't even know are remakeshttps://twitter.com/AlishaGrauso/status/1285715500929093634 …
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A genuinely great work of art, I would argue, is efficiently and intelligently put together All the pieces of it go together like a Swiss watch You can't just add stuff to it or take stuff away without making it worse That's why fandom prefers works that are kind of bad
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Yeah, I'm by far the most familiar with MLP fandom stuff, and you see this pattern all over the place there, where massive holes in the structure of the show, its sometimes ludicrous looseness, gives rise to great material.
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The most fertile ground here is when there's a good core idea, but mediocre or worse execution. Even more so if It's long enough that it can have chunks that are really solid hits and others that really miss. Both of those check all the boxes, as does Buffy
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*nods* part of why HP was so appealing to me was not because it was masterful writing or wev, but because the premise had so much fucking POTENTIAL for really interesting stories! It's absolutely fertile ground for fanfic that explores all those possibilities.
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Star Trek TOS is genuinely quite good, but it was fertile for fanfic because the technology available at the time could never fully depict the setting to the extent of even the creators' imaginations. That plus the early cancellation left room for fans to fill.
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Like: so many of the Star Trek novels spend their time doing things the show *simply could not portray* because it would have cost a zillion billion dollars to make
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Also Twilight. The most successful modern fanfic was "Twilight but with bondage"
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The sheer amount of "fix-it fic" that's out there definitely speaks to the fact that one driving factor of fic can be a desire to "fix" problems with a canon. But I think compelling world-building and interesting characters can also leave folks wanting 1/
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2/ *more* of a story, even if the original story is already pretty good and not perceived as needing "fixing"
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