Because while love and sex are important, these are in fact people responsible for saving the world and catching murderers and taming wormholes and all that--and if they really spent as much time mooning about their love lives or fucking up against bulkheads as fanfic writers have them do-- well, the world would be a smoking cinder by now. *g*

I think the difference, though, is between writers who want to tell stories depicting what life is like for particular fictional characters, and writers who want to tell stories that satisfy their innermost desires.

But we've had this conversation before.

-J