Meta Mondays

[gumnut]

Okay, I'm off sick from Ork and I've been poking around the Kittchen catching up on my reading. I stumbled across Shady's post in June regarding Meta-Mondays and since it is Monday where I am (yeah, I know all you guys still need to catch up, but hey, I busy distracting myself from what I'm supposed to be doing) and I thought of a question to ask

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[dknightshade]

Yes, sorry, I've been quite bad about keeping up with that. Oops!

But to answer your question, for me it's the fact that I love the characters and the emotions of their situation were often ignored in canon. There's just a lot of unexplored territory there which, for me, makes it a very attractive fandom to write in. I seem to be drawn less to writing in the really tightly written fandoms I follow and more in the ones that leave a lot of holes.

[backtothelight]

KR has pretty much everything I love

[spacerat1]

[i]Someday I'm going to write a fic where they're all sitting in the semi and Devon starts telling old war stories, or Bonnie talks about something that happened while she was in college, or Michael breaks out one of those ridiculous pranks from the police academy.[/i]

That would be wonderful! I also felt that that's what the show was lacking. It didn't tell us more about the individual characters. I would have loved to watch an episod involving Michael's family and how they dealt with losing their son.

[spacerat1]

I love the characters and their relationship. I mainly write Bonnie and Michael or Bonnie and Kitt fics because I feel that there were so many things that were left out. And I admit I would LOVED to see Bonnie go out with Michael, even only once :D

[senatordotcom]

I'll use a term that Nutty used in another post. Play.

Honestly, my fan fic started BEFORE fan fic when I was younger and would play with my lil Hot Wheels cars and make my own Knight Rider episodes and go vroom!

Writing fic for me is just a way to play as a grown up.

I started with KR2K because it's what I knew the best. By 1998, I saw maybe all of 5 episodes of the original series.

Now, as I write the franchise-relaunch series, and now that I have seen all episodes, the characters seem so flat and 2D, the show was about the car, and sometimes that's not fair to the characters we love. Regardless of my relaunch series, or KR2K, or if I was writing a whole dif KR fic, the chance to flesh out these characters and make them human is the biggest draw for me.

To turn Knight Rider into a literary story is... amazing. And possible at the same time.

Happy writing, all of us.

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