Vaguely metaish thought about LoM fic, very vaguely inspired by...

[hmpf]

reading titles and summaries of Valentine's Day fic at the comm, I suppose.

I just discovered that - in addition to my general allergy to 'soulmates' ideas etc. - I have a particular dislike of the idea that Gene is somehow the first and only person Sam has met who is really 'right' for him. It's the shippy version of "only 1973 is the right place/time for Sam, he could never be happy in 2006/2007", I suppose. In both cases, I don't like how the problem is externalised. The problem - Sam's problem - is *Sam*. Not 2006. Not other people. *Sam* is the one who is so screwed up as to be unable to live, or love.

Right. Back to the &%§#!% thesis. *sigh*

Comments

[loz]

Dude, your life is so much sadder not seeing Sam and Gene's pure, pure love. ;)

Heh.

I've written a few of those in different ways, and I have this one idea that sort of incorporates a lot of those themes --- but you'd hate the ending, I suspect.

I am not a Big Fan of AU. And I really don't see the point with LoM.

Gah, I should be working on the frelling thesis...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

>Dude, your life is so much sadder not seeing Sam and Gene's pure, pure love. ;)

I know, I know. Pity me! ;-)

>I've written a few of those in different ways, and I have this one idea that sort of incorporates a lot of those themes --- but you'd hate the ending, I suspect.

I know you've written a few of these - and I've *read* a few of them, and I'm fairly sure I commented, too. ;-) Some other people have written fics like these, too. As I said, these types of fic do exist; they're just not particularly numerous. Most of the time I'm quite fine with that, and with trying to provide my own instead. It's vaguely inspiring to know that you may be able provide something that the fandom is not exactly drowning in. ;-)

>I am not a Big Fan of AU. And I really don't see the point with LoM.

Possibly we're both defining AU a bit differently. I don't mean "Gene and Sam during the French Revolution" or "Gene and Sam as vampires" so much (although, as always, a really good writer can convince me of almost anything.) The kinds of AUs I'd really like to see more of are those that play with the various possible explanations of Sam's winding up in 1973 that we speculated about before canon solidified with 2.08. The "Sam's really a time agent from a far future", "Sam's in a Dark City/Matrix-like situation", "Sam's suppressing awareness of his real life and is actually a serial killer" kind of scenario. I can see some of these turning into quite amazing novel-length fics. Wish I could write that kind of thing; I'd love to tackle the Matrix one and the serial killer one.

And of course there's also the kind of AU where one just changes the ending... that's the kind of AU I'm currently writing two of, because obviously I *need* that kind of AU pretty badly. *g*

Re: Gah, I should be working on the frelling thesis...

[loz]

I'm going to leave you now.

But, oh right, I write that kind of AU all the time.