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The Sci-Fi Plot
Apr. 1st, 2006 01:39 pmI've been thinking about the sci-fi plot during my plotting of SGA fanfic with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
neverneverfic. There's obviously a problem in our fic and now we're trying to figure out what the cause of the problem is. Several different types of sci-fi plots and one crossover plot were suggested. neverneverfic mentioned that one of the ones I suggested was too much like 'x' fic; whereas, I was worried that it was too much like 'x' episode as I'd never read the fic she'd brought up.
When does the sci-fi plot cease to be the sci-fi plot, but plagiarism? Does that only happen when text is copied word-by-word or scene-by-scene? Are sci-fi plots so overuse and overdone that I shouldn't worry that it's too much like anything except maybe the canon source?
Whenlornelover, amaresu, and I watch sci-fi shows together, we often say, "I've seen this episode of TNG and B5" while say, watching SGA. The list goes on and on. My favorite was when we were watching SG-1 and Lornelover said that she'd seen that episode of SG-1 already.
How many episodes were written off the Transporter Accident plotline? How many Kirk and Sheppard plotlines are featured around the hot, but very special, and kinda sketchy, alien babe that wants in their pants? How many are Time Loop episodes? How many where the less technologically developed aliens try to make the show's head scientist give them technology?
Perhaps more importantly, when looking at the question of plagiarism and fanfic, how many are exactly the same even on different shows? Where do we draw the line in the sand? Is it just part of the collective unconscious? Is every writer so different that it doesn't matter if we start off with the same plot? What do the Remix fics say about this, if anything?
neverneverfic. There's obviously a problem in our fic and now we're trying to figure out what the cause of the problem is. Several different types of sci-fi plots and one crossover plot were suggested. neverneverfic mentioned that one of the ones I suggested was too much like 'x' fic; whereas, I was worried that it was too much like 'x' episode as I'd never read the fic she'd brought up.When does the sci-fi plot cease to be the sci-fi plot, but plagiarism? Does that only happen when text is copied word-by-word or scene-by-scene? Are sci-fi plots so overuse and overdone that I shouldn't worry that it's too much like anything except maybe the canon source?
When
lornelover, amaresu, and I watch sci-fi shows together, we often say, "I've seen this episode of TNG and B5" while say, watching SGA. The list goes on and on. My favorite was when we were watching SG-1 and Lornelover said that she'd seen that episode of SG-1 already.How many episodes were written off the Transporter Accident plotline? How many Kirk and Sheppard plotlines are featured around the hot, but very special, and kinda sketchy, alien babe that wants in their pants? How many are Time Loop episodes? How many where the less technologically developed aliens try to make the show's head scientist give them technology?
Perhaps more importantly, when looking at the question of plagiarism and fanfic, how many are exactly the same even on different shows? Where do we draw the line in the sand? Is it just part of the collective unconscious? Is every writer so different that it doesn't matter if we start off with the same plot? What do the Remix fics say about this, if anything?
