I figured out what my next article for this website is going to be about. It is going to be about the concept of canonical vs. apocryphal versions of stories. You have that in the Bible with your official versions of stuff, which is right there in the Bible, versus your un-official stuff, which was left out for a variety of reasons, but still exists - although it doesn’t end up carrying the same weight as more “authentic” scriptures.

Anyway, I want to apply this its modern parallel in Hollywood story-telling. You have movies and so forth, which are your canonical versions. And then you have a variety of things from fan-fiction onwards, which are the same story-systems, but told from apocryphal view-points. Some are even considered heretical (illegal), much like apocryphal books of the Bible.

Also, I think I want to look at certain elements of intellectual property law, and talk about how story-telling companies use copyright as a means of controlling what stories become part of the established canon, and which remain out in the cold as apocryphal.