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⌈ Secret Post #6077 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

I was thinking Person of Interest and Smallville!

HP is actually one of the fandoms where I really don't jive with her characterisation.

I'm not sure if I read her SPN stuff. I know I read the HP/SPN crossover she did and wasn't impressed so I might have just given a pass to the rest of her SPN fics. Is her SPN stuff good?

[(Anonymous)]

DA I'm into PoI and I absolutely hate her characterisation! But I've accepted that she's just going to write her own version of characters which is often very different to what I like, so I only read her stuff if I'm not too attached to the canon.

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Another person into PoI here, and I've found that most of my favorite fics (not just by Astolat) will have a bunch of detractors calling them OOC. It kind of makes me wonder what they consider IC, honestly.

To be fair, I did stop watching the show when they killed off Carter, so I've only watched about half the episodes. Perhaps what I consider IC wouldn't look that way to me any more if I'd finished the show?

But on the other hand, a lot of my favorite fics were written during the first two seasons of the show, so if any of those detractors are judging them based on the characterization choices in later seasons, they're being absurdly unfair.

[(Anonymous)]

Astolat's POI fic is very firmly set somewhere in the first three seasons, IMO. I think she stopped writing POI before season four? Which might explain why someone who watched it to the end and then looked for fic might find it more OOC than I do (I didn't watch the last season).

[meadowphoenix]

her spn stuff is what i call fanon ic pre-s4. most of her fic is s3 trying to deal with dean's demon deal, and a lot of people wrote sam and dean the exact same way, so it was familiar if not ic and very close to the tone of the show so it almost didn't matter.

[(Anonymous)]

I loathe her Clark and Lex characterizations, honestly. To be fair, I don't necessarily think they're any more OOC than my preferred characterizations--they just lean in the polar opposite direction with the characters to the one I enjoy.

Which is basically how I'd summarize all of her writing, both fanfic and original: the writing can be counted on to begin with a fascinating premise, deliver some engaging exposition, and then make a buttload of narrative choices that I find, at best, boring, and at worst, actively off-putting.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - Honestly, this ties into the major issue I have with her original fiction. Her writing is good, but what she finds interesting about her stories tends to veer in the opposite direction of what I find interesting about them. So, as the story progresses, I'm left unsatisfied at best and wishing I'd called it quits back when I still actually liked all the characters I was supposed to like at worst.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, the show couldn't even settle on Clark and Lex's characterizations. I think just about any is canon from that shitshow.