>(Of course I am the kind of sick bastard who prefers it when Mike Meyers plays it 'straight' ("So I Married an Ax Murderer") and cannot stand the man as a broad comic ("Ausin Powers [makes me gag]").
... I have a kind of crush on serious!Jim Carrey. (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; the latter half of The Truman Show) Can't stand his 'real' comedies. So, totally understand that. *g*
>and while there are funny parts to it I basically I turned it into a melodrama about gender issues and questioning sexuality. WTF?
I'd do the same. And to me, that would *be* the fun of it. And I'm currently contemplating committing some Very Serious Crack with space_oddity_75...
>because I can almost lay money on the fact that I won't be a fan of the other half of the cross
See, I don't need to be a fan of the other half. I find the concept of crossovers intriguing as such (if well done etc.), so I usually will enjoy a crossover even if I don't totally love the other half, as long as I have more than a passing knowledge of it. I think that somewhere deep down I just love the idea that all fiction kind of takes place in one and the same virtual universe, a kind of secondary reality...
>A bit OT, but I think it is very interesting how much the LoM comm tears things up. Hooker!verse and Psycho!Samatic Cylce were real shocks to me; I admire both a lot but I cannot fathom the mindset that would want to do that to a character you love.
But those *are* crack, too! Crack isn't just the 'just for laughs' stuff - it's everything that makes your brain hurt. Or at least that's my definition. Anything that twists the universe and/or the characters so much that it's not really compatible with canon anymore at all is crack. So, I meant those, too, when I talked about the high amount of crack in LoM fandom.
Those series are simply serious crack. Which would make them more appealing to me than the usual, funny crack - if not for the fact that I'm rather attached to Sam, and removing the Sam that we know from the equation of LoM kind of makes it... less interesting to me. I'll probably read them anyway, and I may even end up liking them... but ultimately I'm here for the Sam we know - and his delicious angst. *eg*
Re: Doesn't explain why there's more crack here than elsewhere, though, does it?
Date: 2008-02-20 11:46 am (UTC)... I have a kind of crush on serious!Jim Carrey. (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; the latter half of The Truman Show) Can't stand his 'real' comedies. So, totally understand that. *g*
>and while there are funny parts to it I basically I turned it into a melodrama about gender issues and questioning sexuality. WTF?
I'd do the same. And to me, that would *be* the fun of it. And I'm currently contemplating committing some Very Serious Crack with
>because I can almost lay money on the fact that I won't be a fan of the other half of the cross
See, I don't need to be a fan of the other half. I find the concept of crossovers intriguing as such (if well done etc.), so I usually will enjoy a crossover even if I don't totally love the other half, as long as I have more than a passing knowledge of it. I think that somewhere deep down I just love the idea that all fiction kind of takes place in one and the same virtual universe, a kind of secondary reality...
>A bit OT, but I think it is very interesting how much the LoM comm tears things up. Hooker!verse and Psycho!Samatic Cylce were real shocks to me; I admire both a lot but I cannot fathom the mindset that would want to do that to a character you love.
But those *are* crack, too! Crack isn't just the 'just for laughs' stuff - it's everything that makes your brain hurt. Or at least that's my definition. Anything that twists the universe and/or the characters so much that it's not really compatible with canon anymore at all is crack. So, I meant those, too, when I talked about the high amount of crack in LoM fandom.
Those series are simply serious crack. Which would make them more appealing to me than the usual, funny crack - if not for the fact that I'm rather attached to Sam, and removing the Sam that we know from the equation of LoM kind of makes it... less interesting to me. I'll probably read them anyway, and I may even end up liking them... but ultimately I'm here for the Sam we know - and his delicious angst. *eg*