Prior to The Dresden Files airing, I can't say that I'd really enjoyed a TV show in a long, long while. Sure, I'd watched Supernatural and Smallville and Enterprise (my first few years of college were made up of reruns and "wait, there's a new episode of [insert show here] this week?"), but Dresden was one of those shows I really got into. I was excited about new episodes. I wanted there to be more, right now, why isn't there a new episode on, how do I program my VCR? Further, and more importantly for this meme, Bob was the first character I'd really fallen in love with in years.
Bob pushed all the right buttons: I'm a sucker for redemption stories. And for smartass bastards with (fairly hidden) hearts of gold. And for romance that is never fully realized on-screen, because hinting is so much more fun. Did I mention buddycop? Oh, dear lord, do I love me some buddycop. And the Bob-Harry dynamic made me squee like you wouldn't believe. They were partners, but also brothers (in magic, in fucking up, in having others fuck them over), and also mentor-pupil/father-son in a way that never got too cheesy.
In short, Bob was one of those characters I clung to like a baby monkey.
So, the show ended and I cursed SciFi and fairly resigned myself to never seeing Bob again. Then I discovered the online fandom. More importantly, fanfic. I had not even gone looking during the show's actual run. But there was fanfic. A lot. And a great deal was centered around the old ghost.
I'd never been a fan of extended canon up to that point. Headcanon, that is. If it wasn't written by the Hand of God, I really had no interest in considering it part of a given storyline. But the fanfic went and fleshed out things the show didn't or couldn't. For a loosely-connected group of ficcers, folks sure had a way of tapping into a single awesome hivemind about a lot of the Bob stuff. It made me happy, because it meant I could keep up with a fandom I loved, with a character I loved, and still feel like I was part of something living and evolving.
So, with that, the following bit of bwee is a mix of both true canon and delicious fanon. I've stopped drawing a line between them -- frankly, I don't think it really matters anymore. With a series that only runs one season (and is a totally different beast from its source material), I'm okay with fanon running wild. It's more fun that way. :3
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timeasmymeasure
Bob! Pt. 1
Date: 2011-10-10 03:41 pm (UTC)Never! :D
* How I FEEEEEL about this character--
Prior to The Dresden Files airing, I can't say that I'd really enjoyed a TV show in a long, long while. Sure, I'd watched Supernatural and Smallville and Enterprise (my first few years of college were made up of reruns and "wait, there's a new episode of [insert show here] this week?"), but Dresden was one of those shows I really got into. I was excited about new episodes. I wanted there to be more, right now, why isn't there a new episode on, how do I program my VCR? Further, and more importantly for this meme, Bob was the first character I'd really fallen in love with in years.
Bob pushed all the right buttons: I'm a sucker for redemption stories. And for smartass bastards with (fairly hidden) hearts of gold. And for romance that is never fully realized on-screen, because hinting is so much more fun. Did I mention buddycop? Oh, dear lord, do I love me some buddycop. And the Bob-Harry dynamic made me squee like you wouldn't believe. They were partners, but also brothers (in magic, in fucking up, in having others fuck them over), and also mentor-pupil/father-son in a way that never got too cheesy.
In short, Bob was one of those characters I clung to like a baby monkey.
So, the show ended and I cursed SciFi and fairly resigned myself to never seeing Bob again. Then I discovered the online fandom. More importantly, fanfic. I had not even gone looking during the show's actual run. But there was fanfic. A lot. And a great deal was centered around the old ghost.
I'd never been a fan of extended canon up to that point. Headcanon, that is. If it wasn't written by the Hand of God, I really had no interest in considering it part of a given storyline. But the fanfic went and fleshed out things the show didn't or couldn't. For a loosely-connected group of ficcers, folks sure had a way of tapping into a single awesome hivemind about a lot of the Bob stuff. It made me happy, because it meant I could keep up with a fandom I loved, with a character I loved, and still feel like I was part of something living and evolving.
So, with that, the following bit of bwee is a mix of both true canon and delicious fanon. I've stopped drawing a line between them -- frankly, I don't think it really matters anymore. With a series that only runs one season (and is a totally different beast from its source material), I'm okay with fanon running wild. It's more fun that way. :3