Originally posted by Orovingwen
Originally posted by Stef
I don't prefer the fics to the show or vise versa for that matter, I don't think I said that I was meaning that SGA to me has slipped in quality of scripts and is often IMHO writing its characters so OOC that I see no difference sometimes between the Cr@p in some fanfics and the actual show... some of the eps read like bad fanfics IMHO. I have had major problems with the show of late, so when I read a fic where the characters are fleshed out for the reader, even if sometimes they are still silly, I have to wonder why the actual writers of the show are sometimes unable to write the characters they are responsible for in the first place (well Brad/Robert anyway).
Don't misunderstand me, I don't want SGA to become BSG or some hybrid serious show, I just want some flesh on the bones of the characters, I don't even think we need the "character based" eps to get more info/background/development about say...Sheppard just a few lines here and there would do it, I mean in Tao of Rodney...
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Originally posted by smushybird
OK maybe sometimes but I guess I am more voyeur then participant!
When I wrote slashfic, especially during the intimate scenes, I tended to picture myself as one character or the other--at least in the sense that I put myself in the position of the POV character (I usually wrote in first person) and identified with his emotions and physical sensations (inasmuch as a woman can identify with a guy's physical sensations during sex ). In every slash pairing, I always identify with one male character over the other and it's not always the character I find most attractive (though usually is). And for me, it was wanting to be that character, to understand the complexities of a m/m relationship, the vulnerabilities, <>
I understand why the writer would have to identify with the characters, that makes perfect sense. I even understand identifying more with one character over the other when reading, again makes perfect sense... but actually wanting to be Sheppard or McKay... to the point where you change them so your characteristics are stronger in one or the other... that to me is where the dreaded Mary Sue comes in and that is what I was referring to in my initial post.
Originally posted by smushybird
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