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.
See, that I find really interesting... :) So maybe it's got a lot to do with the type of canon, as well. I mean, Superman stuff is so iconic... I imagine it's really hard to try and look at anything related, even Smallville, without being influenced on that. On the other hand, X-canon - though it's definitely got its share of archetypes/icons - is so.. tangled, for lack of a better word, that maybe its archetypal impact is minimized? Huh... now I'm thinking that maybe movieverse would probably let you have easier access to those archetypes, without the accumulated baggage of thirty years or so... is that part of the attraction? :)
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 strangely reminding me of the whole Remy/Rogue thing... I came in kind of at the tail end of its pinnacle, back in 1997. It was sort of the 'thing' to mock the genre as a whole, just because so much of it was pretty bad. I shamefacedly admit that I mocked, upon occasion... but I stopped! :) Once I got a little less callow, fic-wise, and started to realize that, while there was a lot of bad stuff, there was also quite a bit of good stuff, and a surprisingly amount of really exceptional stuff.
With Remy/Rogue, admittedly, you didn't have the added wrinkle you have with Logan, of him having made a habit of taking young women under his wing as a sort of mentor-figure. That's a complicating factor in terms of the pairing's reception in the wider fandom, but I still wonder if maybe L/R's popularity (which I'm assuming, from what I've heard of movieverse :) isn't part of the problem. It's very much the fashion to knock the most popular pairing/characters just on principle, because they are popular, and Thus Cannot Be Good. Well, obviously there are other things that sometimes go into a reaction like that - I can speak from personal experience, there :) - but you probably see what I mean.... :)
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Re: Something I've been wondering...
Date: 2002-10-28 11:09 am (UTC)See, that I find really interesting... :) So maybe it's got a lot to do with the type of canon, as well. I mean, Superman stuff is so iconic... I imagine it's really hard to try and look at anything related, even Smallville, without being influenced on that. On the other hand, X-canon - though it's definitely got its share of archetypes/icons - is so.. tangled, for lack of a better word, that maybe its archetypal impact is minimized? Huh... now I'm thinking that maybe movieverse would probably let you have easier access to those archetypes, without the accumulated baggage of thirty years or so... is that part of the attraction? :)
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 strangely reminding me of the whole Remy/Rogue thing... I came in kind of at the tail end of its pinnacle, back in 1997. It was sort of the 'thing' to mock the genre as a whole, just because so much of it was pretty bad. I shamefacedly admit that I mocked, upon occasion... but I stopped! :) Once I got a little less callow, fic-wise, and started to realize that, while there was a lot of bad stuff, there was also quite a bit of good stuff, and a surprisingly amount of really exceptional stuff.
With Remy/Rogue, admittedly, you didn't have the added wrinkle you have with Logan, of him having made a habit of taking young women under his wing as a sort of mentor-figure. That's a complicating factor in terms of the pairing's reception in the wider fandom, but I still wonder if maybe L/R's popularity (which I'm assuming, from what I've heard of movieverse :) isn't part of the problem. It's very much the fashion to knock the most popular pairing/characters just on principle, because they are popular, and Thus Cannot Be Good. Well, obviously there are other things that sometimes go into a reaction like that - I can speak from personal experience, there :) - but you probably see what I mean.... :)