thinking about the mag7.5 AU...
I was idly thinking about the Magnificent 7.5 AU i started long ago, and may even finish the first story of. Some day.
When I was a young fan-girl, and The Sentinel was still fresh and awesome and so completely fandom's little black dress, a woman named Susan created a GDP AU of the Sentinel... and I ate it up. And it was my not-so-secret fetish for a while. And then I started to pick apart the holes, because that's what I do when I'm really fascinated and in love with an idea. Basically, if I start picking it apart, you know I really like it. So the GDP AU was kind of awesome, and should have really showcased how bad a Guide's life could get in the universe set-up, but I noticed some things like... Blair was the only Guide who was ever abused, despite a governmental institution ripe for abuse that was very obviously corrupt and full of corruption. Every other Guide's relationship with their Sentinel was nearly glowingly perfect. Yet the exposition and GDP set-up made it a point that the Guides were in a very precarious position, kept imprisoned and chained to their Sentinels in law if not in physical iron. It was weird to see a system where you *know* power-hungry assholes would get off on abuse of power, and in fact, the in-universe history pretty explicitly detailed cases of it, but it was never shown on-screen except for with the GDP Guards....
Now there's another show at this time called Renegade.... featuring the lovely Lorenzo Lamas. And being the young fan-girl crushing on Lamas' magnificent chest (I sh*t you not, I think the first 3 episodes never showed the man in a shirt under his vest), I *of course* was thinking it'd be cool to show someone else's life being turned upside down due to the GDP rules - a Guide for Reno Raines (played by Lamas)! heh, and guess who would have an angsty Unrequited love crush but his female Guide! Who would be a variation of me, of course. Because fan-girl crushes.*
Fast forward a few years, and an older-but-hopefully-wiser fan-woman is binge-watching Renegade, grinning and giggling about how cute Lamas was back in the day. And I got to thinking... in the Mag 7.5 AU, which I've been noodling about lately, I should totally make every new Guide I introduce girl-boy-girl-boy-etc... you know, keep the cast even. Well, I've already got Chris's Guide pegged as a girl, and I had a random thought that Reno could actually be a damn good partner with an ex-military guy... which would be an interesting story in and of itself**....
But this means I have a really good excuse to drool over a younger Lorenzo Lamas again, and brush up on my Renegade... and I have ZERO problem with watching a cute man with a nice chest! :)
-boogieshoes, contentedly drooling over Lamas
*Incidentally, it's a really, really good thing I like to build in my head before this stuff ever makes it to paper. talk about drawer-fic...
**It also means that the Guide on Ryan Kelly's team, if I'm allowed to borrow them, is going to wind up being another female***
***It also means this post has gone from light and funny to more serious than it was ever meant to be. I swear, I can kill a laugh at the comedy show!
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When I was a young fan-girl, and The Sentinel was still fresh and awesome and so completely fandom's little black dress, a woman named Susan created a GDP AU of the Sentinel... and I ate it up. And it was my not-so-secret fetish for a while. And then I started to pick apart the holes, because that's what I do when I'm really fascinated and in love with an idea. Basically, if I start picking it apart, you know I really like it. So the GDP AU was kind of awesome, and should have really showcased how bad a Guide's life could get in the universe set-up, but I noticed some things like... Blair was the only Guide who was ever abused, despite a governmental institution ripe for abuse that was very obviously corrupt and full of corruption. Every other Guide's relationship with their Sentinel was nearly glowingly perfect. Yet the exposition and GDP set-up made it a point that the Guides were in a very precarious position, kept imprisoned and chained to their Sentinels in law if not in physical iron. It was weird to see a system where you *know* power-hungry assholes would get off on abuse of power, and in fact, the in-universe history pretty explicitly detailed cases of it, but it was never shown on-screen except for with the GDP Guards....
Now there's another show at this time called Renegade.... featuring the lovely Lorenzo Lamas. And being the young fan-girl crushing on Lamas' magnificent chest (I sh*t you not, I think the first 3 episodes never showed the man in a shirt under his vest), I *of course* was thinking it'd be cool to show someone else's life being turned upside down due to the GDP rules - a Guide for Reno Raines (played by Lamas)! heh, and guess who would have an angsty Unrequited love crush but his female Guide! Who would be a variation of me, of course. Because fan-girl crushes.*
Fast forward a few years, and an older-but-hopefully-wiser fan-woman is binge-watching Renegade, grinning and giggling about how cute Lamas was back in the day. And I got to thinking... in the Mag 7.5 AU, which I've been noodling about lately, I should totally make every new Guide I introduce girl-boy-girl-boy-etc... you know, keep the cast even. Well, I've already got Chris's Guide pegged as a girl, and I had a random thought that Reno could actually be a damn good partner with an ex-military guy... which would be an interesting story in and of itself**....
But this means I have a really good excuse to drool over a younger Lorenzo Lamas again, and brush up on my Renegade... and I have ZERO problem with watching a cute man with a nice chest! :)
-boogieshoes, contentedly drooling over Lamas
*Incidentally, it's a really, really good thing I like to build in my head before this stuff ever makes it to paper. talk about drawer-fic...
**It also means that the Guide on Ryan Kelly's team, if I'm allowed to borrow them, is going to wind up being another female***
***It also means this post has gone from light and funny to more serious than it was ever meant to be. I swear, I can kill a laugh at the comedy show!
This entry was originally posted at https://boogieshoes.dreamwidth.org/272249.html. Feel free to comment here or there using OpenID.