Question in the key of X
Jul. 18th, 2004 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonlettuceQuestion:
How is it possible to write movieverse Gambit? He's not in the movies. So far, he's a name on a database. That's it. When you write Remy as a Cajun thief with kinetic energy powers you are writing comicverse Gambit. Who knows, maybe in the movie series he's going to be a door-to-door saleman from Queens whose mutation is the ability to turn bright purple whenever he's horny. (Okay, I know this scenario is unlikely, but work with me here.)
The only tack for saying movieverse when you write a pairing like Logan/Remy (and I'm not picking on Logan/Remy writers, it just seems to be the most popular paring for movieverse!Remy slash) is that you want the reader to visualise teh sex0r that is Hugh Jackman. Well, yeah Hugh Jackman is teh sex0r, but, you know what, so is Logan. 5 ft 3, hairy-as-all-hell, ex-Alpha Flight member Logan.
Is it that writers think they'll get more readers if they label a fic as movieverse? Is it that they've never read the comics and are basing movieverse!Remy on other movieverse!Remy fics they've read? Or is it just me being a picky cow?
Then again, I'm also the person who enjoys reading Lex/Bruce Smallville fic, and Bruce ain't appeared in that show yet. So, I guess it makes me a hypocrital picky cow, too. meh!
How is it possible to write movieverse Gambit? He's not in the movies. So far, he's a name on a database. That's it. When you write Remy as a Cajun thief with kinetic energy powers you are writing comicverse Gambit. Who knows, maybe in the movie series he's going to be a door-to-door saleman from Queens whose mutation is the ability to turn bright purple whenever he's horny. (Okay, I know this scenario is unlikely, but work with me here.)
The only tack for saying movieverse when you write a pairing like Logan/Remy (and I'm not picking on Logan/Remy writers, it just seems to be the most popular paring for movieverse!Remy slash) is that you want the reader to visualise teh sex0r that is Hugh Jackman. Well, yeah Hugh Jackman is teh sex0r, but, you know what, so is Logan. 5 ft 3, hairy-as-all-hell, ex-Alpha Flight member Logan.
Is it that writers think they'll get more readers if they label a fic as movieverse? Is it that they've never read the comics and are basing movieverse!Remy on other movieverse!Remy fics they've read? Or is it just me being a picky cow?
Then again, I'm also the person who enjoys reading Lex/Bruce Smallville fic, and Bruce ain't appeared in that show yet. So, I guess it makes me a hypocrital picky cow, too. meh!
