Weirding yourself out

[tori_angeli]

I was watching the commentaries for season 2 of Leverage when I realized that not everyone watches them for the same reason.

I sometimes hunt down and read interviews with actors.  I was wondering why I do this when I hate remembering an actor's name while I'm watching them play a character.  Associating that face with a real person messes with the

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[tori_angeli]

No. It means I haven't written Katra since November. I DO want to get around to it, but as far as writing and Star Trek are both concerned, my imagination's broke. I have a vague outline idea for it, but I don't want to write while I'm in this funk.

[tori_angeli]

I often get inspired again when new canon comes out. Hasn't been the case with TMNT, though.

[so_out_of_ideas]

I agree with you about associating a face with a real person messing with escapism. Oddly, most of my fandom friends do not seem to understand this concept and continually share actor-things and con-related things with me that I REALLY do not want. I also avoid reading blogs and listening to commentaries until after a show is finished (Like I love the Babylon 5 commentaries w/ JMS because he has a lot of cool things to say after the fact.) because, as you said, anything you find out before a series ends is subject to change. If I'm watching commentary, it's because I want to hear about what writers/creators were thinking and then compare that, on a whole, to what happened in the series.

I also generally don't write fanfic for many fandoms--only the ones that are the most important to me--and in those cases, I won't write until I've watched through as much of the show as is available several times. Otherwise, I don't feel comfortable getting in the characters' heads and speaking with their voices. I try really hard to keep my

[tori_angeli]

This is why I don't write Leverage fanfic--the characters are SO specifically realized on screen that I don't want to mess with that image in my head. Though I still keep getting little plot bunnies about Nate and Eliot meeting briefly a few times prior to the team's formation. I let 'em play out in my head so they don't make it onto my computer screen, which will forever brand them in my mind.

[so_out_of_ideas]

Yeah. I've gotten used to differentiating between my characters and the canon chars, probably because I've also been known to create multiple AU versions of the same character. What I end up having is multiple Nates and Eliots running around my head. Which makes me sound like a lunatic. Oh well.

[tori_angeli]

Dude, I wrote Ninja Turtles fic for two years. That sucker has so many canons, and the characters are all different in each one. It was like a smorgasbord. On the other hand, the smorgasbord approach made it easier to keep from doing things that were OOC, as SOME canon version of the character was bound to act the way you wrote them in your fanfic.

Didn't stop the badfic writers from mangling them, of course, but you'll have that in every fandom.