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Discussion space - the floor is yours...

Potential points to consider (not exhaustive, just to get you going):

Your show is cancelled. Do you cling or move on?

If you stay, what can you do to keep people's interest in the show alive? Run challenges? Hold viewing parties? RPG?

How do you bring new people into a fandom that's got nothing new to offer in terms of canon? How do you keep them there?

Do your own feelings towards the show change over time given increasing distance from the heady days of when you got a new episode every week to when the new shinies start to look increasingly attractive? What can you do about that? Do you want to do anything about it?

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From:

executrix.livejournal.com

My first fandom was Blakes7, which I watched on VHS about 20 years after the series ended. I think it helps that there were still people who'd been in the fandom since original broadcast; that there is plenty of canon (52 episodes) and the fandom hates the way the canon turned out so much that we're still wibbling (and writing fix-it fics about it) so many years later.

From:

jamethiel

Ooh, now this is interesting. Closed canon gives you the ability to write the fixit fic: I have read fixit fics that were written in non-closed canon (*cough* Buffy *cough) and... simply because the writers of canon chose to go in such a different direction, mostly it seems less satisfying than the show. I don't know why.

I think I prefer closed canon in many ways: there are always holes where I go "But what about?". With open canon, it's like trying to find a firm footing on quicksand: the ground keeps moving under you.

Mind you: I am a fan of Oz, and if there is any show that just NEEDS fixit fics, it is that one. I am still not sure whether to acknowledge the existance of season 6 yet. *adjusts her tinhat*