UltimateE said:
That about covers it. Read my first post - speculation on actual events and issues in the UU should go in their appropriate forum. This forum is more like the fan fic forum - where people can share ideas, etc.
Enough threads to warrent a separate forum? Depends on how you want to look at it. There are several people who don't care to have threads like that in the regular forums, including myself. Same reason why we have a fanfic forum.
Okay, nod with me if I get this straight: All speculation about Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, The Ultimates, Ultimate Iron Man, and all other titles currently in print go straight to their appropriate forum. Fan fic, as in wholly written pieces involving character action, dialogue and narration that involve fan's takes on comic book characters and concepts go STRAIGHT to the Fan Fic forum.
So what is the Baseless Speculation & Ideas niche? Is it:
A) Speculation on the future publishing plans of Ultimate Marvel, i.e. possible Ultimate Thor, Ultimate Hulk, etc.?
OR
B) For fans to post their random speculations (not as detailed fanfic, but as conceptual wankery) of Ultimate Marvel characters that will "probably" not see the light of day? "Ultimate Moon Knight ongoing!", "Ultimate Rocket Racer mini"
On one hand, I see that this forum has a very focused purpose in segregating all the stuff but on the other hand, I feel like there's a very fuzzy line that separates the two ideas listed above.
Realistically, ideas like compound's are either A) not going to see the light of day due to questionable subject matter (X-Factor as porno company) or B) Will not be in fitting with commercially driven creative directions (X-Force as foils for Spider-Man). So
they are obviously just harmless wankery and fanciful play with the ideas and characters.
On the other hand, some ideas are written to FIT into the existing continuity, but are also fan ficcy as well. They're not just wanking for wank's sake --- they're meant to be plausible ideas that can be viewed SIMULTANEOUSLY as
forecasting the directions in which the title can go AND as
playing around with the characters: Fanfic and Speculation all at once.
It's obvious that compound's ideas and mine go straight here, but at the same time they still connect to the main forums, and may easily be dismissed as "just some random wankery" and overlooked for not being recognized as "where could UFF/UXM/USM et al. go?"