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Lost in Austen
Apr. 28th, 2009 11:50 pmI took a break from Doctor Who, and watched "Lost in Austen". After I got over the cringingly embarrassing scenes near the start (I don't cope with embarrassment well) I got pulled in. And at the end of part 2, I was going "Oh noes!" and very sad for the heroine. And there were worse things to come, oh my.
I liked this because it's the best kind of fanfic, the best kind of AU:
* it takes one "what if" and runs with it
* it stays faithful to the characters, and canon as we know it
* and yet manages to speculate beyond canon without violating it
* it manages to make a number of the characters more sympathetic than they were in canon
* it wasn't predictable; it was a comedy of errors, a Mary-Sue story in which Mary-Sue stuffs everything up, despite her best intentions.
I liked this because it's the best kind of fanfic, the best kind of AU:
* it takes one "what if" and runs with it
* it stays faithful to the characters, and canon as we know it
* and yet manages to speculate beyond canon without violating it
* it manages to make a number of the characters more sympathetic than they were in canon
* it wasn't predictable; it was a comedy of errors, a Mary-Sue story in which Mary-Sue stuffs everything up, despite her best intentions.
