Yeah, I can totally accept a stretching of their characters in an AU, but... well, when you say "when it's no longer Bodie and Doyle" - do you mean just in name? So as long as someone calls them "Bodie and Doyle", and says that one has curly hair and one short hair etc, then it works for you?
No, not quite, though, truthfully, I can't say it's that far off. I suppose the best example would be "The Cook and the Warehouseman." I love that story but there's no way I see Doyle in "Ray." Yet I can go along with the idea that it is Doyle because the story is so well written. So I can't really say that I won't buy a story where Bodie or Doyle isn't "my" Bodie or Doyle because I can. Just not all the time. The writing makes all the difference in the world. In other words, there doesn't seem to be a hard and fast rule as to what Pros stories I'll like...other than that Bodie and Doyle have to end up together.
Cross-overs are a bit weird to me too, cos it generally means that one or the other of our lads has been dealt with so that they can't be together! I can get over that, and enjoy a story if it's good, if I know the other character being crossed-over.
Ah, see, and I can't. It's just too depressing to think one of them has died or never was.
The only Chief/Pros crossover I really like though is the Jack Reuben Darcy one, for very specific reasons hinging on my first sentence - although I just saw a description of a similarly plotted story that might work for me too... Now if only I could remember where I saw it!
I haven't read that one, even though I really like "Saints and Miracle." I think my biggest problem with stories that cross with other shows, then turn out to be not exactly crossovers, is that there's often inconvenient offspring to have to explain. I've yet to read an explanation I particularly cared for. And while I can take a separation of a couple of years, at the most, more than that and it starts to get, well, depressing. It's probably pretty obvious that I usually prefer my angst in small amounts. :-)
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No, not quite, though, truthfully, I can't say it's that far off. I suppose the best example would be "The Cook and the Warehouseman." I love that story but there's no way I see Doyle in "Ray." Yet I can go along with the idea that it is Doyle because the story is so well written. So I can't really say that I won't buy a story where Bodie or Doyle isn't "my" Bodie or Doyle because I can. Just not all the time. The writing makes all the difference in the world. In other words, there doesn't seem to be a hard and fast rule as to what Pros stories I'll like...other than that Bodie and Doyle have to end up together.
Cross-overs are a bit weird to me too, cos it generally means that one or the other of our lads has been dealt with so that they can't be together! I can get over that, and enjoy a story if it's good, if I know the other character being crossed-over.
Ah, see, and I can't. It's just too depressing to think one of them has died or never was.
The only Chief/Pros crossover I really like though is the Jack Reuben Darcy one, for very specific reasons hinging on my first sentence - although I just saw a description of a similarly plotted story that might work for me too... Now if only I could remember where I saw it!
I haven't read that one, even though I really like "Saints and Miracle." I think my biggest problem with stories that cross with other shows, then turn out to be not exactly crossovers, is that there's often inconvenient offspring to have to explain. I've yet to read an explanation I particularly cared for. And while I can take a separation of a couple of years, at the most, more than that and it starts to get, well, depressing. It's probably pretty obvious that I usually prefer my angst in small amounts. :-)