Thank you for your extensive feedback. I need to make an honest confession at this point: I didn't spend much time pondering whether what the fellows do is in character or whether they should be in the show or not. My plot was dictated by what Shakespeare makes his characters do, so I adapted my minor characters' actions to that, not Shakespeare to my characters. I hate Cameron, but she's wonderful to have on the show - one needs someone to bitch about at the end of an episode.
Although Huddy is my favoured pairing and the one I prefer reading in fanfic, having the relationship canonized is a setback for writing fanfic, as I have discovered to my dismay. Any ideas I have on how the relationship will progress will now have to take into consideration what canon says about it. Up till now, huddy writers could bring them together or keep them apart, have them behave like long-married couples or have them in angsty on-and-off affairs and no one could complain that what they wrote was not in character, because there was no canon by which they could be proved wrong or right. Now we all have to adapt our huddy ideas to canon plot lines. As for the poor hilson-shippers, House/OC-shippers, etc., they'll all have to go AU. That may not sound all that bad, but actually it's quite difficult to keep a decent AU going when the show is doing something completely different.
So, IMO the canonization is not a win for fanfiction.
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Date: 2010-09-19 01:40 pm (UTC)Although Huddy is my favoured pairing and the one I prefer reading in fanfic, having the relationship canonized is a setback for writing fanfic, as I have discovered to my dismay. Any ideas I have on how the relationship will progress will now have to take into consideration what canon says about it. Up till now, huddy writers could bring them together or keep them apart, have them behave like long-married couples or have them in angsty on-and-off affairs and no one could complain that what they wrote was not in character, because there was no canon by which they could be proved wrong or right. Now we all have to adapt our huddy ideas to canon plot lines. As for the poor hilson-shippers, House/OC-shippers, etc., they'll all have to go AU. That may not sound all that bad, but actually it's quite difficult to keep a decent AU going when the show is doing something completely different.
So, IMO the canonization is not a win for fanfiction.