Boo-yah! Eligibility Post!

[ficmod]

Welcome! To the 2019 Eligibility Post!

This is the place to make your case for any canons that you know live in the gray area of "does this count as ten years old?" I will keep a running list here of the canons that I have decided on, one way or another.

When making your case, please include the canon's full name (as you would nominate it in the tagset), the date(s) of all the canon material that has been released, and your reasoning as to why I should accept it. Here's an example:

Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine (1997)

A prequel, Ogre Enchanted, was published in 2018. While the events of Ogre take place in the same timeline/continuity, it follows a main character who did not appear in Ella. The main cast of Ogre is for the most part completely separate, apart from two characters (their identities being spoilers) who were extensively mentioned in Ella, but appeared only briefly in the original book. Therefore, I feel as if the two novels should be considered separate canons.

ETA 2/10/19: In cases of tie-in comics and novels, my rule of thumb is: 1. are the tie-ins well known? 2. are they by the same creators? and 3. does it clearly follow the original canon in terms of continuity/characters? If the answer is "no" to at least two of these, I won't consider them as disqualifying material. If you disagree with me about a particular judgment call, feel free to point out why - I'm not super familiar with everything, and Google can only do so much!

Reviewed Fandoms

Avatar: The Last Airbender - NOT ACCEPTED

Babylon 5 - ACCEPTED

Babysitter's Club (Ann M. Martin) - ACCEPTED

Band of Brothers (TV) - ACCEPTED

Batman Beyond (tv series) - ACCEPTED

Battlestar Galactica (TV) - ACCEPTED

Bewitched (TV) - ACCEPTED

Birds of Prey, Vol 1 - ACCEPTED

Blake's 7 (TV) - ACCEPTED

Carnivale (TV) - ACCEPTED

Cowboy Bebop (anime) - ACCEPTED

Dead Like Me (TV) - ACCEPTED

Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman - ACCEPTED

Excalibur (Comic) - ACCEPTED

Farscape (TV) - ACCEPTED

Final Fantasy VIII (1999) - ACCEPTED

Final Fantasy IX (2000) - ACCEPTED

Firefly (TV) - ACCEPTED

Gabriel (2007) - ACCEPTED

Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling) - NOT ACCEPTED

Hellsing (manga) - ACCEPTED

Highlander - ACCEPTED

Inuyasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale (manga) - ACCEPTED

The L Word (TV) - ACCEPTED

Man from UNCLE (TV) - ACCEPTED

Percy Jackson (book series) - NOT ACCEPTED

Practical Magic (1998) - ACCEPTED

The Pretender (TV) - ACCEPTED

Ravenous (1999) - ACCEPTED

Rurouni Kenshin (anime) - ACCEPTED

Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 - 2003) - ACCEPTED

Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena (Anime) - ACCEPTED

Stargate Atlantis - ACCEPTED

Stargate SG-1 - ACCEPTED

Stargate Universe - NOT ACCEPTED
Star Trek: Voyager - ACCEPTED

Sweet Valley High/Confidential - NOT ACCEPTED

Sweet Valley Junior High/Twins/Senior Year/University - ACCEPTED

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV) - ACCEPTED
 
Terminator (movie series) - NOT ACCEPTED

Xena Warrior Princess (TV) - ACCEPTED

Young Riders (TV) - ACCEPTED

Comments

Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman (TV/Made for TV movies) and The Young Riders (TV)

[melsheartsthings]

Hi! I'm interested and looking forward to this! on to my eligibility questioning fandoms:

Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman (TV & Made for TV movies)– Beth Sullivan (Creator), CBS (original network) (1993-1998 [series and most tie-in books], 1999 [1st movie], 2001 [2nd movie])


The series centers on Doctor Michaela “Doc Mike” Quinn, an independent-spirited, female physician from Boston, Massachusetts, the fifth daughter (four sisters) of a wealthy doctor who encouraged and favored her and his wife, Elizabeth Quinn. After her father's death, Michaela answers an advertisement for a town doctor in the town of Colorado Springs, ion the Colorado territory. Shortly after her arrival and mostly poor reception by the townsfolk, she is made the adoptive mother of three newly-orphaned children, as this was their mother's last dying wish. With their help and that of the ruggedly handsome widowed “mountain man” Byron Sully (who goes by his surname only), Doc Mike soon settles into life in Colorado Springs and eventually she and Sully wed. Set in the late 1860's into the 1870's, the show covers a variety of topics and issues as well as historical events (such as the Sand Creek massacre, the battle of Washita, and so on) in addition to many interesting medical issues and mysteries of the time. There were two made for TV movies that followed the cancellation of the series and served as final wrap-ups for the show. The first made-for-TV movie was released in 1999 and the second in 2001.

Tie-ins: There are some tie-in novels, most of which were released during the series' original run, and the last and most recent of which was released in 2011, but I wouldn't consider any of them truly canon as none are written by anyone who worked on the show as I don't recognize any of the author names as corresponding to names of script writers, however some are based (probably loosely) on show episodes, to be completely honest. Seeing as the 2011 book is basically an AU “licensed Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman fanfic sold in stores for money” dealing with the potential events that would happen if Doc Mike married her one time fiancee, the solider David leading up to her running away with her kids, I personally think we can safely dismiss at least the 2011 novel as being iffy, canon-wise and connection-wise. Also several of the tie-in books written during the years the show ran were written in German and never translated into English, although they were reprinted elsewhere abroad and thus translated into other European languages including French (i suppose if one obtained the french translations, one cpuld then translate those into english but still you lose something in that kind of translation). [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Quinn,_Medicine_Woman#Novels ]

There was also a very short-lived spin-off centered on the town's saloon/brothel keeper, Hank Lawson called California that only had a pilot filmed (which was never aired) in 1997.



The Young Riders (TV)- Ed Spielman (Creator), ABC (Original network) (1989-1992)

A highly fictionalized account of the operations of the Pony Express and the lives of six young Pony Express Riders. This series ran from 1989 to 1992, and was set roughly in the years leading up to the Civil War, in the Nebraska territory. It was short-lived (compared to shows like Bonanza, or the Big Valley, or Little House on the Prarire, or even Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman), but it was a really interesting show in it's own right. No follow-up made for TV movies, spin-offs or tie-in books here.

Re: Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman (TV/Made for TV movies) and The Young Riders (TV)

[ficmod]

Both of these look good to me!

Re: Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman (TV/Made for TV movies) and The Young Riders (TV)

[melsheartsthings]

Awesome!