But I find I have a hard time liking a story when one of the characters isn't Bodie or Doyle. That's exactly how I feel - I'm very wary of Cade and Deed fic, I want Doyle to be around as well, and I don't want Cade/Bodie or Deed/Bodie, I only want Doyle/Bodie (*stamps foot petulantly*)
The thing about Zax in the film is that, to me anyway, he totally had no personality, so he can be completely overlaid with Doyle-persona, with no effort at all. And that's one reason I'd argue it's not a good movie - not only do I have no sympathy for what Zax does in the movie but there's no aspect of a personality in him that I can latch onto as motivation unless I make up my own backstory for him, which pretty much negates the whole point of watching a movie imho.
I'm reading Zax as Doyle with a different name, and although that usually throws me too (I search and replace alternative names that authors have used when I can - I know, I'm bad...), in this case it works just fine, and I'm really enjoying the world and the situation that HG has created for them.
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Date: 2007-06-29 04:03 pm (UTC)That's exactly how I feel - I'm very wary of Cade and Deed fic, I want Doyle to be around as well, and I don't want Cade/Bodie or Deed/Bodie, I only want Doyle/Bodie (*stamps foot petulantly*)
The thing about Zax in the film is that, to me anyway, he totally had no personality, so he can be completely overlaid with Doyle-persona, with no effort at all. And that's one reason I'd argue it's not a good movie - not only do I have no sympathy for what Zax does in the movie but there's no aspect of a personality in him that I can latch onto as motivation unless I make up my own backstory for him, which pretty much negates the whole point of watching a movie imho.
I'm reading Zax as Doyle with a different name, and although that usually throws me too (I search and replace alternative names that authors have used when I can - I know, I'm bad...), in this case it works just fine, and I'm really enjoying the world and the situation that HG has created for them.