I personally prefer the number, and that is because I do not like, may I repeat, I personally do not like, real-people fanfic. I have no problem reading or writing about fictional characters, but I have a problem when we start talking about "Sarah Michelle Gellar walked out to the car" rather then "Buffy stalked towards the menacing minivan"
I prefer to say "Ten pulled out the super-sonic ray gun" rather then "David Tennant..."
I like to think of characters as characters, and people as people, you know? If we call the incarnations by their actors, then, YES it gives the actor more credit and more ownership of the character, but as a fanficcer *I* want to be able to write about the character and not the actor. David Tennant never went to Galifrey; He works on a BBC set. You know what I'm getting at? I like to have that immediate distinction between person and character when fan fic is involved.
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I personally prefer the number, and that is because I do not like, may I repeat, I personally do not like, real-people fanfic. I have no problem reading or writing about fictional characters, but I have a problem when we start talking about "Sarah Michelle Gellar walked out to the car" rather then "Buffy stalked towards the menacing minivan"
I prefer to say "Ten pulled out the super-sonic ray gun" rather then "David Tennant..."
I like to think of characters as characters, and people as people, you know? If we call the incarnations by their actors, then, YES it gives the actor more credit and more ownership of the character, but as a fanficcer *I* want to be able to write about the character and not the actor. David Tennant never went to Galifrey; He works on a BBC set. You know what I'm getting at? I like to have that immediate distinction between person and character when fan fic is involved.