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She's Not Dead
| Tropes and genres | |
|---|---|
| Synonym(s) | SND |
| Related tropes/genres | denialfic, EWE, fix-it |
| See also | Classic, Continued Classic |
 Catherine appears as a ghost/guardian angel, artist is Shirley Leonard, from In Search of Angels (1995) | |
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She's Not Dead, often SND for short, is a term in Beauty and the Beast fandom for fanfic ignoring or retconning the third season and Catherine's death, so that Classic (i.e. Vincent/Catherine) fic can be set during third season or in the future (e.g. to allow Vincent and Catherine to have children).
"Alternative Third Season" is similar to SND. But while an SND has Catherine appearing to die, an Alternate Third Season story skips the fake death entirely.
A fan in September 1990 said:
For me, as with so many others, Catherine is still alive. The only way I can continue to enjoy this is to believe that she didn't die. There was a little phrase going around at TunnelCon that was being used to describe stories in the fanzines. I heard people ask, "Is it an 'SND' story?" Well, I had to ask. It stands for "She's Not Dead." I love it! There are really a lot of great zines out there, and I think there is something for everybody. For myself, if it's an "SND" zine, it's as good as bought.If it's not, I already know I don't want to read it. [1]
SND is for Fic and Philosophy
While one can be a fan of "SND" and an "SND fan," the terms for the actual fans themselves (mostly negative) are Classic, "Rabid Classic Fan," "Militant Classic Fan," "Catherinite," and "Nay-sayer." See The Beauty and the Beast Wars.
Some Tropes Employed for Use for an SND Fic
- Catherine in the Witness Protection Program and/or in hiding in another way
- Catherine as a ghost
- Catherine has amnesia
- Catherine inhabits Diana's body
- Catherine as a vampire
- Catherine has been in a coma
- the whole third season is a bad dream
Fan Comments
1991
I believe the main (and only) opposition to bringing Linda back in a B&B movie, is the fear that the story would be too unbelievable; like Bobby Ewing's shower in Dallas.I do not think this is really a problem. Does anyone remember Vincent's lines about "those dark nights" and "the dreams" in The Rest Is Silence? Very clearly, Vincent has experienced an earlier episode, in his life, where he was overcome with delirium, and swept away in a tide of powerful and terrible dreams. Why is it so hard to believe that this could occur again? I just finished reading a truly fantastic zine, in which V awakens in Catherine's bed. He never went down to that awful cavern, at all - he simply dreamed it and the story line was totally believable, and in keeping with the quality of the series!
If the dream idea does not appeal to movie producers, perhaps the idea of Catherine in a morphine induced coma will. I have also enjoyed another zine, in which Diana has Catherine whisked off to a safe place, but doesn't tell Vincent because the odds of Catherine's recuperation are virtually nil. </ref> from Dancing Lights v.2 n.3 </ref>
References
- ^ from a fan in Tunneltalk v.1 n.7