Life on Mars, my life, thought fragment

[louiselux]

Am waiting for a short person with a moustache to come and have a meeting with me about some Very Exciting References I have that he doesn't. He's very sweet. I think he probably won't turn up though, because we've developed this game of saying we'll meet and then mutually ignoring it. It doesn't knock my duck off though, as my mum would say, as he's only down the corridor.

Life on Mars is sooo slashy. Sam Tyler is like this exotic creature from another planet, all clean shaven and short haired and sensitive. I love the attention to detail in this program, because he even looks physically different from the others somehow, healthier, with his better skin and teeth and hair. How can his grumpy-bastard boss fail to be charmed, in the end? That's right, he can't. Are they doing it on purpose? olympia_m woke me up to the potential last week and yay, last night's episode just cemented it that little bit more. Also, John Simm is very cute.

Update - the man came to the meeting, at last, after all these months! It was a good meeting.

It occurs to me that I haven't written in a film or television fandom for years, not since the X-Files. I don't know if this is to do with any differences between these types of fandoms, for example, are there are easier points of entry into lit and manga fandoms? Maybe I'm less likely to fall in love with a character on screen than on a page - but that can't be true because I love the Doctor and Benton Fraser and Greg House, but have not wanted to write them at all. Maybe it's to do with what stimulates me more - characters created and presented with either words or pictures? Hmmm, I'm sure I had more thoughts, but I'm not getting any further with this so I'd better leave it here.

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I can't read reality-based fic at all - anything that anyone writes, even in parody, about the Mythbusters? Nope. Filmed sources are just one step away from that. I'm trying to think and see where movies with a larger base of unreality, like big-budget SF and fantasy movies, sit on that continuum for me. I want to say that they're easier than more real ones, but I can't say because I read so little fic in general (most of it manga or anime-based) that I don't really have much of a basis for comparison.

(A good part of why I read so little fic is that I'm attuned to the characters, and if they act the least little bit OOC (in my opinion), then it's blown.)