Dilema. Pls halp.
I have a fic bunny that I need to exorcise.
And I don't really have time for this, but it's a bunny that's been treating my brain like its own personal hutch for quite some time. It's not a particularly troublesome tenant but it refuses to leave. And at this point I just want it out.
But there's just enough apathy in me that I can't quite justify getting into the fic, especially since it's a fairly elastic idea and could conceivably balloon out to several involved chapters. And also, I have to admit that I would partly be doing it because the movie that's behind this idea was less than stellar, on several levels ... and that seems a leetle bit hateful. But at the same time, if others find the idea at least a little intriguing, that would be worth playing it out, I think. It's just one of those things that I'm not quite interested in enough to do solely for myself, yanno?
(If it helps you any to click on the cut and then give me your opinion, it's Eliot Spencer-related.)
So it's an Eliot Spencer backstory fic, post-Moreau and pre-Leverage. That stage where he's discovered how low he can go, which will inevitably put at least parts of this on the darker end of my spectrum. And while Eliot!angst might decide some people right there, that's not the whole story. Because, if you recall, I did mention a movie.
Like most dedicated little fangirls, having discovered my enjoyment of Christian Kane in Angel was easily sustained and surpassed in Leverage, I went on a brief spree of watching other stuff with him in it. I got bored pretty quickly, but not before I watched Her Minor Thing. Which was a mistake, because as soon as I finished I thought: That would have been so much better if it actually were Eliot ... and he was kind of on a break, recuperating, and he was just doing it to get that chick past her boyfriend as a favour to a friend, all zany chick-flick style, only it's Eliot, so ... not so very much chick flick.
And I have those kinds of ideas relatively frequently, but this one I'm genuinely interested in. Just not motivated enough by. And it's an intriguing mix of romantic comedy-type formula with the melancholy of a somewhat destroyed man, with the added challenge of keeping it all basically canon with the movie. I don't even know if the combo would work without a lot of dark and probably inappropriate humour. And I don't really want to go down the sappy route of Eliot starting with a con and ending up falling in love, because frankly I can't see that chick being someone who Eliot Spencer would fall for. She was kind of vapid and shallow.
Anyway. That's my dilema. Should I give it a go? Or is it best left alone? Has anyone else even seen the movie? What do you think?
And I don't really have time for this, but it's a bunny that's been treating my brain like its own personal hutch for quite some time. It's not a particularly troublesome tenant but it refuses to leave. And at this point I just want it out.
But there's just enough apathy in me that I can't quite justify getting into the fic, especially since it's a fairly elastic idea and could conceivably balloon out to several involved chapters. And also, I have to admit that I would partly be doing it because the movie that's behind this idea was less than stellar, on several levels ... and that seems a leetle bit hateful. But at the same time, if others find the idea at least a little intriguing, that would be worth playing it out, I think. It's just one of those things that I'm not quite interested in enough to do solely for myself, yanno?
(If it helps you any to click on the cut and then give me your opinion, it's Eliot Spencer-related.)
So it's an Eliot Spencer backstory fic, post-Moreau and pre-Leverage. That stage where he's discovered how low he can go, which will inevitably put at least parts of this on the darker end of my spectrum. And while Eliot!angst might decide some people right there, that's not the whole story. Because, if you recall, I did mention a movie.
Like most dedicated little fangirls, having discovered my enjoyment of Christian Kane in Angel was easily sustained and surpassed in Leverage, I went on a brief spree of watching other stuff with him in it. I got bored pretty quickly, but not before I watched Her Minor Thing. Which was a mistake, because as soon as I finished I thought: That would have been so much better if it actually were Eliot ... and he was kind of on a break, recuperating, and he was just doing it to get that chick past her boyfriend as a favour to a friend, all zany chick-flick style, only it's Eliot, so ... not so very much chick flick.
And I have those kinds of ideas relatively frequently, but this one I'm genuinely interested in. Just not motivated enough by. And it's an intriguing mix of romantic comedy-type formula with the melancholy of a somewhat destroyed man, with the added challenge of keeping it all basically canon with the movie. I don't even know if the combo would work without a lot of dark and probably inappropriate humour. And I don't really want to go down the sappy route of Eliot starting with a con and ending up falling in love, because frankly I can't see that chick being someone who Eliot Spencer would fall for. She was kind of vapid and shallow.
Anyway. That's my dilema. Should I give it a go? Or is it best left alone? Has anyone else even seen the movie? What do you think?