It's noticeable that fan authors have very little knowledge or interest in how resistance movements work, or what living in a non-democratic society is like.
Good point -- and it's probably a blind spot of which readers from outside Western Europe are much more conscious. (I was certainly conscious that the US-based fandom tended to write the characters as much more gushy and emotional than the original, but I'm not sure if that's due to lack of a cultural 'stiff upper lip' or just being young and female!)
To be fair, I'm not sure we get all that much of a glimpse into how the resistance movements glimpsed in canon actually work, either, which is what fanfic is based upon.
*awkward look* So, erm... how well did I manage it in "Blue Remembered Hills", then? I don't remember putting an awful lot of thought into what the resistance was actually doing (not much, so far as I remember); I was more interested in building Erik up as a mad-scientist manipulator, which seemed a plausible role for him in a B7 context...
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Good point -- and it's probably a blind spot of which readers from outside Western Europe are much more conscious. (I was certainly conscious that the US-based fandom tended to write the characters as much more gushy and emotional than the original, but I'm not sure if that's due to lack of a cultural 'stiff upper lip' or just being young and female!)
To be fair, I'm not sure we get all that much of a glimpse into how the resistance movements glimpsed in canon actually work, either, which is what fanfic is based upon.
*awkward look*
So, erm... how well did I manage it in "Blue Remembered Hills", then? I don't remember putting an awful lot of thought into what the resistance was actually doing (not much, so far as I remember); I was more interested in building Erik up as a mad-scientist manipulator, which seemed a plausible role for him in a B7 context...