FicWorldProblems
(xposted to LJ)
So here's the thing. I couldn't bring myself to watch past S3 of Smallville. I couldn't. It hurt too much. Because, okay; Lex is my baby. He is my woobie lovechild, and I will hug him and squeeze him and call him MINE, and no one shall ever hurt him ever or I will eviscerate them like a teddy bear subjected to strip search by knife. Just saying. That includes the self-serving Clark Kent, who only gets a pass because Lex still inexplicably loves him. Everyone else dies.
Anyhoo. I didn't even watch past the end of S2 until I had to for my fic, and then I watched each episode as I rewrote it for my VAST canon rewrite, resulting in the fact that I happily have zero concept of what actually happened on the show, because I'm blissfully and completely divorced from reality when it comes to the arcs of the characters / events therein. I quite literally cannot recall which things happened on the show and which things happened in my story, to the point where I'll rewatch a scene for some detail and be like, "Wait... why are you two being all weird with each other? I thought you worked this all out ages ago. Wait; was that in the story? Oh. Damn. That was probably in the story. Now I'm bummed."
The upshot is, though, that since I only watch latter-day scenes to find details for things I need to then go about gleefully rewriting to suit my own purposes, I often have no clue where to find said details, should the wiki not tell me. Like for instance, currently I'm mildly stuck because I don’t know how the heck I should get these boys out of the Fortress and back into the dang Caves. Like, I know ol' Clarkbar transports up there via pocket dimension at least the first time, but does he run his ass up there thereafter like a dumbass, or does he just ask Jor-El to open a portal from the altar room every time he wants to make tracks north, to save time? 'Cause I know that can happen, or Chloe / Lois / assorted other human-type fools wouldn't've made it up there... But if so then why wouldn't Cheekbones avail himself of said electric monorail instead of sprinting up there all the time? (Basically if so i need to know what ep to watch to see how it looks, because let's face it. If he, for instance, carries Chloe back at top speed, from the ARCTIC, she'd freeze to death even faster--not even getting into inertia and all that--not that I'm saying this show was ever remotely logical or scientific, but still. Upshot? Dead-ass Chloe. Which would be vaguely depressing. She's by far the least irritating of the female characters, since at least she has some agency of her own. No comment on actress status, just strictly talking character, here.) Anyhoo. Been trying to find scenes with anyone coming BACK from the Fortress and just keep getting a big fat blank. Rar. FICWORLDPROBLEMS.
(Stupid Fortress. Jor-El is illogical. Actually, this show was illogical. And ripped my soul out too much.
I'm getting my boys krypto-married, and ain't no one gonna stop me!)
Or I'll do things like... Just now I wrote a scene with Jason Teague. Except I've never watched a scene with Jason Teague. So I cast my mind back to the one scene I've ever watched of Supernatural to remember what Jensen Ackles' voice sounded like, looked at photos of his face and hands, and extrapolated based on his SVwiki bio. We'll see. But the idea of forcing myself through more Lana scenes... especially during a season when my boys had just had their massive break-up, which I've utterly disavowed?
Yeah, not so much. So we'll hope I've sold Jason Ackles, LOL.
Ficworldproblems. They are the real. Heh.
So here's the thing. I couldn't bring myself to watch past S3 of Smallville. I couldn't. It hurt too much. Because, okay; Lex is my baby. He is my woobie lovechild, and I will hug him and squeeze him and call him MINE, and no one shall ever hurt him ever or I will eviscerate them like a teddy bear subjected to strip search by knife. Just saying. That includes the self-serving Clark Kent, who only gets a pass because Lex still inexplicably loves him. Everyone else dies.
Anyhoo. I didn't even watch past the end of S2 until I had to for my fic, and then I watched each episode as I rewrote it for my VAST canon rewrite, resulting in the fact that I happily have zero concept of what actually happened on the show, because I'm blissfully and completely divorced from reality when it comes to the arcs of the characters / events therein. I quite literally cannot recall which things happened on the show and which things happened in my story, to the point where I'll rewatch a scene for some detail and be like, "Wait... why are you two being all weird with each other? I thought you worked this all out ages ago. Wait; was that in the story? Oh. Damn. That was probably in the story. Now I'm bummed."
The upshot is, though, that since I only watch latter-day scenes to find details for things I need to then go about gleefully rewriting to suit my own purposes, I often have no clue where to find said details, should the wiki not tell me. Like for instance, currently I'm mildly stuck because I don’t know how the heck I should get these boys out of the Fortress and back into the dang Caves. Like, I know ol' Clarkbar transports up there via pocket dimension at least the first time, but does he run his ass up there thereafter like a dumbass, or does he just ask Jor-El to open a portal from the altar room every time he wants to make tracks north, to save time? 'Cause I know that can happen, or Chloe / Lois / assorted other human-type fools wouldn't've made it up there... But if so then why wouldn't Cheekbones avail himself of said electric monorail instead of sprinting up there all the time? (Basically if so i need to know what ep to watch to see how it looks, because let's face it. If he, for instance, carries Chloe back at top speed, from the ARCTIC, she'd freeze to death even faster--not even getting into inertia and all that--not that I'm saying this show was ever remotely logical or scientific, but still. Upshot? Dead-ass Chloe. Which would be vaguely depressing. She's by far the least irritating of the female characters, since at least she has some agency of her own. No comment on actress status, just strictly talking character, here.) Anyhoo. Been trying to find scenes with anyone coming BACK from the Fortress and just keep getting a big fat blank. Rar. FICWORLDPROBLEMS.
(Stupid Fortress. Jor-El is illogical. Actually, this show was illogical. And ripped my soul out too much.
I'm getting my boys krypto-married, and ain't no one gonna stop me!)
Or I'll do things like... Just now I wrote a scene with Jason Teague. Except I've never watched a scene with Jason Teague. So I cast my mind back to the one scene I've ever watched of Supernatural to remember what Jensen Ackles' voice sounded like, looked at photos of his face and hands, and extrapolated based on his SVwiki bio. We'll see. But the idea of forcing myself through more Lana scenes... especially during a season when my boys had just had their massive break-up, which I've utterly disavowed?
Yeah, not so much. So we'll hope I've sold Jason Ackles, LOL.
Ficworldproblems. They are the real. Heh.