Mag7 ranting time
Oct. 15th, 2004 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusJeez, I'm really ticked off about everything at the moment, or so it seems...
Am I the only one whose immediate response to the question 'how many AUs are there in the Mag7 universe?' is TOO FUCKING MANY!!!!!?
Jesus, people, what's the point? I mean, I can understand how the ATF universe came about and it's an almost-completely-logical extrapolation to bring the guys into the present day (yes,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cycnus39 it's time for your patent 'why Ezra would never work for the FBI rant, form an orderly queue...") even though I hate with the passion usually reserved for the Tories of this world the way it utterly rips the heart from all the Ezra/Nathan angstorama that I love so well.
But other than that, what's the point of getting into a show and then blithely buggering off in a thousand different directions when there's still a shed-load of possibilities within the original premise? Is it completely illogical to assume that the reason people don't seem to be writing much fic at the moment (particularly OW fic) is that they're all off inventing their own little universes where Vin is a mutant cyber-were-raccoon and Ezra is a telepathic xeno-anthropologist with alien abduction memories?
And the juggernaut rolls on. I remember sitting down at Red Rose 18 months ago and brainstorming with Corb on this very subject and even then we managed to come up with about 35 AUs we knew were being written *off the top of our heads*. God knows how many there are now. It's not big and it's not clever.
Oh, and OW is *not* an AU, dumbasses.
Am I the only one whose immediate response to the question 'how many AUs are there in the Mag7 universe?' is TOO FUCKING MANY!!!!!?
Jesus, people, what's the point? I mean, I can understand how the ATF universe came about and it's an almost-completely-logical extrapolation to bring the guys into the present day (yes,
cycnus39 it's time for your patent 'why Ezra would never work for the FBI rant, form an orderly queue...") even though I hate with the passion usually reserved for the Tories of this world the way it utterly rips the heart from all the Ezra/Nathan angstorama that I love so well.But other than that, what's the point of getting into a show and then blithely buggering off in a thousand different directions when there's still a shed-load of possibilities within the original premise? Is it completely illogical to assume that the reason people don't seem to be writing much fic at the moment (particularly OW fic) is that they're all off inventing their own little universes where Vin is a mutant cyber-were-raccoon and Ezra is a telepathic xeno-anthropologist with alien abduction memories?
And the juggernaut rolls on. I remember sitting down at Red Rose 18 months ago and brainstorming with Corb on this very subject and even then we managed to come up with about 35 AUs we knew were being written *off the top of our heads*. God knows how many there are now. It's not big and it's not clever.
Oh, and OW is *not* an AU, dumbasses.
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Date: 2004-10-15 10:40 am (UTC)I don't know much about cowboy films or books, never really seen many or read any, I don't think. I'm guessing they're much more prevelant in the US.
What you say about the puritanism of current USA does ring bells. When life literally depends on killing for survival, there's a lot less room for nancy rules about behaviourand such.
When you say you didn't want to write OW in case you got it wrong, that sounds more like lack of confidence to me, rather than snobbery. Perhaps I'm just misunderstanding you.