Me again and sorry about the earlier cock up. I've been told I've got to put this into two parts, so....
I don't want authors making what they will of our lads' characters, because it's their characters that I like in the eps! If I can't see at least a decent dollop of those ep-characters, then I can't believe in the story, because it might as well be about other people with the same names. Me, too, but I can accept the exaggeration of certain tendencies (for want of a better word!) otherwise then you're wandering into the realm of misrepresentation. But then isn’t a lot of fan fiction a bit of an exaggeration of the original characters? But then, again, again, again, I’m going to slightly contradict myself and admit to liking some stories where the original Bodie and Doyle characters have almost disappeared e.g. Arabian Nights. In the early days of reading slash I started and abandoned that story many times because I couldn’t stomach the author’s projection of Doyle, but later when I’d read the whole story it became a favourite. But maybe I’m not contradicting myself because in the end, as Cims points out below, I think I did eventually find the Bodie and Doyle that I know and love from the episodes. It’s hard to build a theory when the actual practice fails to support the theory on so many levels (now I really don’t know what I’m talking about….).
Actually that's probably not quite what you mean anyway, and not entirely what I mean. I mean Sebastian exaggerates Doyle's vindictiveness, and I can still go along with her stories. And Rhiannon makes the lads into completely other people - but they work for me, because I can see the essence of our lads there, in pretty much everything they do. And I don't think I can see Bodie's essence in this story, and I'm not convinced that his essence could emerge from what we're told of him so far...
I know what you’re saying but I think I do see fragments of Bodie in this story, even at this early stage e.g. loyalty to a friend; not finding verbal communication very easy but expressing himself physically; some kind of attachment/honour to the army; some kind of respect for Cowley.
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Part 1
Date: 2019-04-07 06:14 pm (UTC)I don't want authors making what they will of our lads' characters, because it's their characters that I like in the eps! If I can't see at least a decent dollop of those ep-characters, then I can't believe in the story, because it might as well be about other people with the same names.
Me, too, but I can accept the exaggeration of certain tendencies (for want of a better word!) otherwise then you're wandering into the realm of misrepresentation. But then isn’t a lot of fan fiction a bit of an exaggeration of the original characters? But then, again, again, again, I’m going to slightly contradict myself and admit to liking some stories where the original Bodie and Doyle characters have almost disappeared e.g. Arabian Nights. In the early days of reading slash I started and abandoned that story many times because I couldn’t stomach the author’s projection of Doyle, but later when I’d read the whole story it became a favourite. But maybe I’m not contradicting myself because in the end, as Cims points out below, I think I did eventually find the Bodie and Doyle that I know and love from the episodes. It’s hard to build a theory when the actual practice fails to support the theory on so many levels (now I really don’t know what I’m talking about….).
Actually that's probably not quite what you mean anyway, and not entirely what I mean. I mean Sebastian exaggerates Doyle's vindictiveness, and I can still go along with her stories. And Rhiannon makes the lads into completely other people - but they work for me, because I can see the essence of our lads there, in pretty much everything they do. And I don't think I can see Bodie's essence in this story, and I'm not convinced that his essence could emerge from what we're told of him so far...
I know what you’re saying but I think I do see fragments of Bodie in this story, even at this early stage e.g. loyalty to a friend; not finding verbal communication very easy but expressing himself physically; some kind of attachment/honour to the army; some kind of respect for Cowley.
To be continued....