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| Re: Living in Denial | |
| Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net> | Date: 5/21/04 5:58 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: Living in Denial (Wado SG) : It was more than that: 1) Verification of IP or Bungie source from Bungie --
Done by who? How? Wu called the thing an "incursion" on his servers. Certainly tongue in cheek, but also not entirely accurate. : 2) Massive updates to Halo Story Page -- NONE What does that prove? The HSP isn't official. If this had been canon, and HSP didn't know about it, they could have just blown it by not commenting. If they knew it wasn't canon, it just meant they were "in on it". But if they were "in on it" it STILL could have been canon, and their silence was part of maintaining mystery. I myself knew it wasn't Bungie, but I kept quiet until after because it's more fun that way. : 3) Direct questioning of validity from bungie.org -- Silence And if this had been canon, B.org's cooperation would have been necessary, and such questioning and the lack of answers would have been staged for the audience's benefit. That this was hosted at b.org means that their cooperation was always required. So short of a bald statement of fact regarding the source, no amount of "no comment" or posturing can be interpreted conclusively as evidence for or against Enkidu being canon, as : Agreed in part, I was not as happy with the ending as the beginnings, the
: I very much think that it stimulated people intellectually and that was the
: What is the point of the quality of the fiction? Mastery is in the evidence
It's a great piece of writing for fan fiction, head and shoulders above most. That I wouldn't dare deny. But I still think there's a sizeable gap between that and, say, what Greg did at Bungie during the Marathon series. To say that it had merit as an intellectual exercise, because it prompted people to examine it, is true. But that's different from literary merit, because what caused this interest wasn't the inherent value of the text, but the presumed source. Whether the audience made an incorrect presumption because of their own overeagerness or ignorance, or because they were cleverly deceived is neither here nor there, because that misapprehension more than anything else that sparked the interest. If one doesn't believe that, one only has to ask, as the BGH crowd is asking (less politely, to be sure) why it wasn't presented from day one as an obvious piece of fan fiction, one with a special presentation outside the fan fiction section. It wasn't done that way because this spoiled the "fun"-- because a lot of the merit of the whole experience is separate from the actual content. That isn't saying anything bad about it; just something different than saying it either was or was not a good story. Kind of like what people thought of the Bachman books before people knew it was Stephen King. Notice how much more interest they got after people knew it was a King pseudonym? [snip] : To me this is applicable because those that jumped on the bandwagon and
That's nice, but I don't think anybody asked :) Myself, I never felt sure this was from Bungie, and the longer it went on, the more I was sure it wasn't. So the revelation that it isn't doesn't affect my opinion of it-- I just understand how it could affect others' opinion of it.
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