Fuck, fuck, fuckity-fuck. I just wrote a really long reply to this, and then scrolled back by accident! I will try to recreate it!
My viewing/reading habits are pretty similar to yours, especially in that I really don't read a lot of Angel fic. What I do read tends to be pretty gen, also. I think a lot of fic reading is about exploring relationships/characters to an extent that doesn't happen on the show. With Angel, I don't really have any 'ships, except for my love of Gunn/Wes, which only works within the parameters of their canon friendship. Canon is what matters to me.
With Lotrips, on the other hand, there is no canon, only a few pictures. The fandom is the fic. And because my lotrips love stems from my LotR love, RPS that is outside of the LotR confines doesn't really work for me.
With Smallville, there are these two characters who you're more concerned about than any of the others, and the canon doesn't delve as deep into their relationship as you'd like. Plus, the canon spends a whole lot of time dealing with things that feel fairly irrelevant. Added to that is the fact that we already know the canon has to go somewhere and do things to the characters that we, or I, won't like. The fic doesn't have to do that.
HP is pretty similar, in that the canon, even though it isn't complete yet, has certain confines. Two more years of school, Voldemort will be defeated, some more people will die. And barring naff epilogues, which I'm sure JKR will not go in for, that's as far as the canon is ever going to go. We never get to see these characters, who for the most part could also use a little more fleshing out, grow up. Plus, their universe is kind of intriguing.
Which, I think, is a very longwinded way of saying that it's about wanting more than canon can provide, for whatever reason. There are some shows that don't grab you enough to need anything more than canon gives. There are others, like Angel, where the canon is almost untouchable. And then there are others, the fandoms of possibility, where there are things that you want to change, things that you want to see, things that the writers haven't done quite enough of.
But I don't know why that makes you re-read HP fic! How many times have you read the books?
Does that make sense? I'm sure it was far more coherent first time around!
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My viewing/reading habits are pretty similar to yours, especially in that I really don't read a lot of Angel fic. What I do read tends to be pretty gen, also. I think a lot of fic reading is about exploring relationships/characters to an extent that doesn't happen on the show. With Angel, I don't really have any 'ships, except for my love of Gunn/Wes, which only works within the parameters of their canon friendship. Canon is what matters to me.
With Lotrips, on the other hand, there is no canon, only a few pictures. The fandom is the fic. And because my lotrips love stems from my LotR love, RPS that is outside of the LotR confines doesn't really work for me.
With Smallville, there are these two characters who you're more concerned about than any of the others, and the canon doesn't delve as deep into their relationship as you'd like. Plus, the canon spends a whole lot of time dealing with things that feel fairly irrelevant. Added to that is the fact that we already know the canon has to go somewhere and do things to the characters that we, or I, won't like. The fic doesn't have to do that.
HP is pretty similar, in that the canon, even though it isn't complete yet, has certain confines. Two more years of school, Voldemort will be defeated, some more people will die. And barring naff epilogues, which I'm sure JKR will not go in for, that's as far as the canon is ever going to go. We never get to see these characters, who for the most part could also use a little more fleshing out, grow up. Plus, their universe is kind of intriguing.
Which, I think, is a very longwinded way of saying that it's about wanting more than canon can provide, for whatever reason. There are some shows that don't grab you enough to need anything more than canon gives. There are others, like Angel, where the canon is almost untouchable. And then there are others, the fandoms of possibility, where there are things that you want to change, things that you want to see, things that the writers haven't done quite enough of.
But I don't know why that makes you re-read HP fic! How many times have you read the books?
Does that make sense? I'm sure it was far more coherent first time around!