Let me phrase it another way. If I give a fourteen year old a copy of Superman #122 and tell them to write some fanfiction based of it, and I give someone an episode of "Smallville" on VHS and tell them to watch it and then write feedback on it, I believe it is more likely that the kid with the comic book is going to write a 'better' fanfic, with better characterisation (as in true to canon comic, vs. true to canon episode) better spelling, and better grammar.
Yes, it depends on the fourteen year old. But I am confident that if I had a pool of 100 of them, and 50 got Smallville and 50 got Supes comic, the comic fanfic would be overall 'better' in the above characteristics than the tv show fic.
You're right, and age shows a trend, but even in comparing kids posting really bad comicverse fic and kids posting really bad movieverse fic, I tend to think the movieverse fic is slightly worse, given the movieverse fic and comicverse fic I have read. (Note that disclaimer. =)
Well, no one can prove it =) but . . .
Let me phrase it another way. If I give a fourteen year old a copy of Superman #122 and tell them to write some fanfiction based of it, and I give someone an episode of "Smallville" on VHS and tell them to watch it and then write feedback on it, I believe it is more likely that the kid with the comic book is going to write a 'better' fanfic, with better characterisation (as in true to canon comic, vs. true to canon episode) better spelling, and better grammar.
Yes, it depends on the fourteen year old. But I am confident that if I had a pool of 100 of them, and 50 got Smallville and 50 got Supes comic, the comic fanfic would be overall 'better' in the above characteristics than the tv show fic.
You're right, and age shows a trend, but even in comparing kids posting really bad comicverse fic and kids posting really bad movieverse fic, I tend to think the movieverse fic is slightly worse, given the movieverse fic and comicverse fic I have read. (Note that disclaimer. =)