Sorry for the late, but yes, I can see your point - I mean HBP left its own exciting paths to take future stories, but as you say, they're quite limiting after the first enthusiasm has passed.
The other fandom issue is fascinating... I've been a lurker in BtVS while it was still being aired (the only fandom of mine where that happened), and remember that it also had a lot of different timelines because it was aired a lot later in most parts of the world. So the cutting edge of fandom differed, and you had tons of different timelines, and spoiler warnings, and 'set during/after season whatnot' was pretty much a standard staple of labelling fic.
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Date: 2006-08-08 07:19 pm (UTC)The other fandom issue is fascinating... I've been a lurker in BtVS while it was still being aired (the only fandom of mine where that happened), and remember that it also had a lot of different timelines because it was aired a lot later in most parts of the world. So the cutting edge of fandom differed, and you had tons of different timelines, and spoiler warnings, and 'set during/after season whatnot' was pretty much a standard staple of labelling fic.