Talk:Clarke and Bellamy/@comment-93.107.3.181-20170217212312/@comment-27794543-20170218033357

I think it's unfair to call the book series fanfiction. While I don't think very highly of the books, they are the original material. If anything, the TV series is a fanfiction – an officially licensed fanfiction, but the TV series came second and was based off the books.

While the books' writing was not to my taste, they were better written than 99% of the fanfics you'll find. (While there is certainly great fanfiction out there, the vast majority of fanfics aren't that great and get few readers. Btw, I've spent dozens of hours a month for 15+ years reading fanfiction, so I'm not anti-fanficiton, I just realize that most of it isn't that great.)