don't particularly like the pairing of Logan/Rogue, but that doesn't mean I haven't appreciated some of the excellent L/R stories I've read recently. I just have too much comics background to ever really buy Logan/any young woman he's taken under his wing, I guess. But that's entirely separate from the high level of skill I've seen in the handful of L/R writers I've read. :)
Exactly.
That's exactly all I'm trying to say.
You don't like L/R, or *whatever* ship, I hear ya. I've been very vocal about my own pairing dislikes.
It's when that dislike is translated into "all fic of ABC type sucks. How do I know? 'Cause I read one D/E type story and *it* sucked, and therefore it must *all* suck because not only do I hate that pairing, it was badly written."
This is the part where I usually invoke Sturgeon's Law. *g*
I'm still working on a post about the whole thing, and I can say from my own experience, that writing Smallville has been less easy for me, because I *can't* seem to rid myself of as much Superman canon, even in the broadest terms, as I'd like. I'd love to posit a happy ending for Clark and Lex, or even Clark and Chloe or Chloe and Lex, but I know that Clark becomes Superman, Lex becomes his archenemy, and Lois Lane is both Clark's and Superman's love interest. And that's so iconic that I find it hard to work around.
Whereas in X-canon, the writers themselves have done so many AUs and new takes and can't be bothered to keep track of canon, that I can take what I like (Carol Danvers or Mariko or Beast - and while I don't read the comics myself, I do check the FAQ at er, the x-men newsgroup [racmx?] and pick the brains of people who *do* read the comics), drop it into movieverse and keep going with the movieverse, because what is movieverse but an offical, canonical AU?
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Re: Something I've been wondering...
Date: 2002-10-28 10:15 am (UTC)Exactly.
That's exactly all I'm trying to say.
You don't like L/R, or *whatever* ship, I hear ya. I've been very vocal about my own pairing dislikes.
It's when that dislike is translated into "all fic of ABC type sucks. How do I know? 'Cause I read one D/E type story and *it* sucked, and therefore it must *all* suck because not only do I hate that pairing, it was badly written."
This is the part where I usually invoke Sturgeon's Law. *g*
I'm still working on a post about the whole thing, and I can say from my own experience, that writing Smallville has been less easy for me, because I *can't* seem to rid myself of as much Superman canon, even in the broadest terms, as I'd like. I'd love to posit a happy ending for Clark and Lex, or even Clark and Chloe or Chloe and Lex, but I know that Clark becomes Superman, Lex becomes his archenemy, and Lois Lane is both Clark's and Superman's love interest. And that's so iconic that I find it hard to work around.
Whereas in X-canon, the writers themselves have done so many AUs and new takes and can't be bothered to keep track of canon, that I can take what I like (Carol Danvers or Mariko or Beast - and while I don't read the comics myself, I do check the FAQ at er, the x-men newsgroup [racmx?] and pick the brains of people who *do* read the comics), drop it into movieverse and keep going with the movieverse, because what is movieverse but an offical, canonical AU?
At least, that's how I look at it.
Does that make sense?