--Coming in with a very late reply to say, this is actually just how it works for me -- I write fic for the "best parts" of a show that exists in my head? Or, not even "best parts" -- for me, it feels like I write fic for the "real story." Like, to me, a TV show is a representation of some idealized story that "really happened" -- and noticing the places that the show falls down in representing the story doesn't feel like it impacts the story itself, but rather just the portrayal of it. (Which is why I will totally say that a show makes a character act OOC -- even though that shouldn't really be possible, at least not with a character that originated in a show; but to me the character has a "life" beyond what's on screen, and it will totally feel to me like some episodes, or some lines or actions or whatever, are mistakes...)
And for the shows I tend to consider trashy, I guess the, hmm, gap, between the show and the "real story" is wider? So some of the fun for me is mocking the show, in part for having "errors" in how true it is to the "real story"...and for me, talking about those things as errors just solidifies the "real story" in my mind, makes it something I enjoy all the more, for being better than what we actually see on screen.
--And I think that's partly why I do enjoy my "trash" shows so much, because I have that kind of...control, over them? With the Type A shows that I admire, they cleave (in my mind) closer to the "real story" -- so if they do something that breaks my heart, I have to just accept that that's "what really happened." While as with the trashy shows, if I don't like something -- NOPE, rejected, that's not how it really went; the show just made a mistake, and I can still write and read the "real" version in fic! :P
(...and I realize this all sounds vaguely delusional, but it kind of is how it works in my head? ^^;)
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Date: 2019-12-02 01:07 pm (UTC)And for the shows I tend to consider trashy, I guess the, hmm, gap, between the show and the "real story" is wider? So some of the fun for me is mocking the show, in part for having "errors" in how true it is to the "real story"...and for me, talking about those things as errors just solidifies the "real story" in my mind, makes it something I enjoy all the more, for being better than what we actually see on screen.
--And I think that's partly why I do enjoy my "trash" shows so much, because I have that kind of...control, over them? With the Type A shows that I admire, they cleave (in my mind) closer to the "real story" -- so if they do something that breaks my heart, I have to just accept that that's "what really happened." While as with the trashy shows, if I don't like something -- NOPE, rejected, that's not how it really went; the show just made a mistake, and I can still write and read the "real" version in fic! :P
(...and I realize this all sounds vaguely delusional, but it kind of is how it works in my head? ^^;)