[ SECRET POST #4417 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4417 ⌋

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Comments

Re: That terrible thing you recently watched/played/read. Tell us about it!

[(Anonymous)]

Watched the first 4 episodes of Titans. I was setting ten to one odds I'd find it bad, and was not surprised. I find it obvious, meandering, often cloying, and over the top, with mediocre acting and some terrible special effects. The fact that it can be a little bit gritty and the characters can swear is just enough of a bright spot to make it feel utterly wasted on a C-grade show.


I read the first 20K or so of a really bland Johnlock fic, in which Sherlock is a young, inexperienced aristocrat aboard a Regency era passenger ship and John is one of the ship's crewmen. I very much wanted it to be good (which is why I stuck around so long, hoping it would improve) but it wasn't good at all. There was almost no characterization to speak of, and very little plot apart from Generic-Love-Interest!John and MarySue!Sherlock falling madly in love and both angsting that they're not good enough for the other. (Which are things I'm totally here for, if there's also a plot and good characterizations, but alas, there was not.)

Re: That terrible thing you recently watched/played/read. Tell us about it!

[(Anonymous)]

That's such a bummer. It's so rare for people to have good AU ideas, and actually execute them at the length they deserve, so it's super disappointing when the writing just isn't there.

Re: That terrible thing you recently watched/played/read. Tell us about it!

[(Anonymous)]

I've always felt really blessed in the Sherlock fandom, because IMO it's one of the rare fandoms that has a lot of really good AUs. Mostly because it's an incredibly adaptable canon. Pretty much everything that defines the characters is something they can take with them into any number of AUs.

That said, after seven years reading Sherlock fanfic, I definitely feel like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel, and coming up with a lot of the bland, poorly characterized fics people on this comm are always accusing AUs of being.

so it's super disappointing when the writing just isn't there.

There's a fanfic flamingo that says "Summary is everything you ever wanted; writing makes you weep tears of blood." It is very relatable, I think. :P

Re: That terrible thing you recently watched/played/read. Tell us about it!

[(Anonymous)]

And honestly, it's kind of worse when the writing is like... competent, but juuuuuuust not good enough.

Because if the writing is obviously incompetent, you can at least close it and move on right away. If the writing is semi-competent but not actually good, you can get sucked in because you want it to be good so much so you read, like, 1/4 of the fic before you finally realize it's actually not good enough and move on.

Or maybe that's just me...

Re: That terrible thing you recently watched/played/read. Tell us about it!

[(Anonymous)]

Because if the writing is obviously incompetent, you can at least close it and move on right away. If the writing is semi-competent but not actually good, you can get sucked in because you want it to be good so much so you read, like, 1/4 of the fic before you finally realize it's actually not good enough and move on. Or maybe that's just me...

Ha! This is so damn relatable, and definitely not just you.

This perfectly describes the fic I just read, and you know how I said I read like 20K of it? I just checked and apparently I actually read 60K of it. I honestly...have no words for myself right now. Except for what the fuck, self? I think I skimmed some of it, but still. I wasn't interested at all. I just kept reading because the fic is like 300K and I really wanted it to get better. When I finally got to the first sex scene and was so bored I couldn't make it through, I think I broke out of the spell and finally gave up, lol.

I really ought to value my time more than this. Derp.

Re: That terrible thing you recently watched/played/read. Tell us about it!

[(Anonymous)]

Some of my favorite Sherlock fics have been AUs! It's made me lose most of my wariness over AUs, so I can definitely understand getting suckered into a blah one.

Re: That terrible thing you recently watched/played/read. Tell us about it!

[(Anonymous)]

That's a shame. AUs often disappoint me this way, though...great idea /setting, but it's only superficial.

Re: That terrible thing you recently watched/played/read. Tell us about it!

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like I'm lucky to have read quite a lot of really wonderful AUs. But lately, yeah, I've definitely been finding an abundance of AUs where the writer seems to have just wanted to write original fiction, with the names of their faves attached for, like, emotional motivation or something?