Reading Gen!

[roxy]

Reading gen, totally not the reason I fell into This Thing Of Ours. Gen I can see on my TV, and what these folks are doing when the Magic Box is off, I could care less. That is, until I met Supernatural. This is the *only* show I watch that I do want to know what's happening after the light goes out, in fact, the characters are so fascinating that I want to know what they're thinking and doing even if they're not boinking each other. I know! I scare myself!

I think because unlike a lot of shows I watch, SpN really is wide open to anything. The possibilities are endless, because they can be anywhere--they're not tied to a town, or state, the OTP can be together or apart and still be worlds of interesting, there's undiscovered back story that the show hints at and invites speculation on, there's drama, comedy, and of course horror--either the Urban Legend kind, or folk lore, or mythology...and of course there's this whole Angel/Demon thing that can be used or ignored, depending on what you want. It's an AU writers paradise, but sticking to canon also provides tons of material. The show's a fanfic goldmine.

Writing Smallville was tons of fun, but also called for some nifty tapdancing if you wanted to avoid Clark's powers, and working an AU was like running uphill with ankle weights. SpN is just so much easier. The characters can be yanked around a little more because they're kind of unremarkable--besides the whole demon hunter thing. They're not high-profile rich kids with shady pasts and a creepy dad and a Destiny, they're not superpowered farmboys...it's just a wee bit easier.

SpN gen knocks my socks off if it's well written. The boys are so close that even a confirmed slash addict like myself gets wrapped up in them. I've read a fic or two that when I got to the end realized that I'd enjoyed the hell out of it and there hadn't been kissing, or angsting about kissing (and by kissing i totally mean screwing like rabbits). Yes, I've enjoyed it. Mind you it will be a cold day in hell before I write it, and you'd have to pry my wincest out of my cold, dead, hands but... I feel good about feeling good about SpN gen.

Yeah, that's it. Just a little happy noodling!

Comments

[garryowen]

I wish I could be as noble as you. I need me some sexual tension! Though I do like character studies, which are sort of gen. Maybe?

[roxy]

of course! Character studies are sort of gen! Mind you, I'd much rather have a little naughtiness too. I'm never giving up my slash for gen!

[lastscorpion]

That's such a perfect description of why I like gen! Except there's more shows that I like it for.

That's really how I'd describe feeling "fannish" about a show. It's when I want to see or know *more* -- what's happening after the light goes out, like you said.

[roxy]

Right! It's just like when we were kids, telling each other stories based on the stories we knew then. It's just now, some of us embellish them a bit--*koff*