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Leviathan and lonely.
Sep. 3rd, 2010 12:09 amIt's happened. I scrolled past a story today where someone took the BBC Sherlock characters and had them get stuck in the time period of the original Sherlock.
I ask you, what is the point of updating a fandom, if you just put them right back where they were? It's like an AU where Spock and Kirk are highschoolers in America, but then they get abducted by aliens and learn to run around in outer space.
I mean. I have to say. My favorite type of SGAU were the ones where like, John runs a diner and Rodney is the harried professor who stops in at 3 am for coffee and pancakes, and they fall in love, and then Rodney's job still gets him involved with Atlantis, and by some accident, John comes along or touches something in Rodney's briefcase, and they are right back where they started on the show.
So I guess, in theory, the Sherlock story could be awesome. But it would take a lot of trust to get me to read that story. Plus, I give a lot more leeway to fandoms like Star Trek and Stargate, where anything can happen (and usually has, on the show), than something like Sherlock, which is ostensibly set in the real world.
Actually, you know what? It's not AUs. I dislike AUs. I think entirely*. I don't want to read about Sirius and Remus as two regular blokes, I don't want to read about Kirk and Spock as modern day high schoolers, and I don't want to read where Castiel is a librarian (except for that one story, cuz... it just worked). What I do want to read are the "what if" stories. I want to read about when John opted out of the military to own a farm, or Rodney got saddled with a kid and never went to Antarctica. I want to read about Spock being a detective on Earth because his mom moved him back there instead of staying on Vulcan, and Kirk being a mechanic because he never got bullied into Starfleet. I will so gladly read what happened because Voldemort picked Neville instead of Harry as his nemesis.
But time traveling a pair of characters from a real world tv show bugs me.
Watch, now Pru or someone awesome will do it, and it'll be my favorite story.
*In all fairness, there is also a genderswap/mpreg (but not mpreg, since the genderswap happens first?) Master and Commander story out there, which I adore, so I do have my exceptions. But Astolat makes all things awesome. It sounds like the worst story ever, but it's so awesome.
I ask you, what is the point of updating a fandom, if you just put them right back where they were? It's like an AU where Spock and Kirk are highschoolers in America, but then they get abducted by aliens and learn to run around in outer space.
I mean. I have to say. My favorite type of SGAU were the ones where like, John runs a diner and Rodney is the harried professor who stops in at 3 am for coffee and pancakes, and they fall in love, and then Rodney's job still gets him involved with Atlantis, and by some accident, John comes along or touches something in Rodney's briefcase, and they are right back where they started on the show.
So I guess, in theory, the Sherlock story could be awesome. But it would take a lot of trust to get me to read that story. Plus, I give a lot more leeway to fandoms like Star Trek and Stargate, where anything can happen (and usually has, on the show), than something like Sherlock, which is ostensibly set in the real world.
Actually, you know what? It's not AUs. I dislike AUs. I think entirely*. I don't want to read about Sirius and Remus as two regular blokes, I don't want to read about Kirk and Spock as modern day high schoolers, and I don't want to read where Castiel is a librarian (except for that one story, cuz... it just worked). What I do want to read are the "what if" stories. I want to read about when John opted out of the military to own a farm, or Rodney got saddled with a kid and never went to Antarctica. I want to read about Spock being a detective on Earth because his mom moved him back there instead of staying on Vulcan, and Kirk being a mechanic because he never got bullied into Starfleet. I will so gladly read what happened because Voldemort picked Neville instead of Harry as his nemesis.
But time traveling a pair of characters from a real world tv show bugs me.
Watch, now Pru or someone awesome will do it, and it'll be my favorite story.
*In all fairness, there is also a genderswap/mpreg (but not mpreg, since the genderswap happens first?) Master and Commander story out there, which I adore, so I do have my exceptions. But Astolat makes all things awesome. It sounds like the worst story ever, but it's so awesome.
