Dr. Fawn or Captain Grey: Who is more overlooked?
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MMK wrote:Doc Brown wrote:Oh, I think you'd be surprised what some authors will contemplate! Take a look around http://www.fanfiction.net for an hors d'ouevres, and then graduate to http://www.godawful.net for the main course. True to the culinary metaphor, you may need a strong stomach!
It may come as no suprise to you when I say that I have read ALL the CS fan fic on http://www.fanfiction.net - I started there then I found this site
I haven't heard of the other site, but I'll try reading some ff's from there... besides I'm not eating any food at this moment in time, so I should be alright.
Uh - enter godawful with extreme care. It's not a fanfiction site as such - it's a review site where people who hate, but at the same time are fascinated by, bad fiction gather to burn bad stories in effigy. The posts are often hysterically funny, but not kind. I've been a member for several years under a different name, and believe me, I know what I'm talking about.
Fortunately, there are no Scarlet fics mentioned on the main forum on GAFF (as we members call it - stands for GodAwful Fan Fiction) although there have been some Thunderbirds fics mentioned in the Antidotes forum (where recommendations to read good stories get posted.)
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Marion wrote:Part of the problem with writing about Dr. Fawn is that his role in most stories is to patch up the others after they've had the adventure. With the exception of a few stories, he doesn't leave Cloudbase.
Captain Grey can be included in any adventure/mission/story--if the author wants to.
It would also be hard to define which agents are being 'spotlighted' in some stories--when I write about Scarlet, I generally include Blue, and vice versa. When Magenta or Ochre are in the story, they tend to be in it together.
I stopped calling some of my stories 'Captain Scarlet' stories when I felt that he wasn't the focus of my attention (at least) and defined them as 'Spectrum Stories.' My favourite character is Captain Blue (which I'm sure will come as a huge shock to no one at all) but because of that, I write about Scarlet a fair bit as well. I have written stories about Captain Ochre, and ones where Scarlet's partnered with other characters, and about the Angels as a group. In some stories, almost everyone appears to some degree. It is harder though, the more people you give substantial parts to.
You could read the 'synposis' posted for ever story that is posted, and see if that gives details of which character if the main one.
Other than that, I can't help you.
I hope that, in "The Identity Of Martin Stewart," I can include Dr. Fawn to a degree. After all, I am writing about an amnesiac, and Dr. Fawn does have memory-stimulating techniques available to him. Not, alas, that they're totally effective on Captain Scarlet himself.
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