*butts in* I guess my overriding problem here is that I am not truly a fan of movie AUs. Not when it comes to Sam and Dean, anyway. I like ceteris paribus type AUs in the Supernatural world. What if the boys were raised apart. What if Mary didn't die. What if Sam didn't date Jess, what if Dean was the one who left, what if there were no demons, what if... Those are questions I like exploring, because it's always interesting to see how the author brings the boys back to being the Sam and Dean we know (or not quite the Sam and Dean we know), or how much the entire world changes or does not change based on one single different detail. Throwing a movie plot into the mix jars me, unless that movie plot is somehow part of a case Sam and Dean are working on. Like, if, for example, Sam and Dean are going along, doing what it is they do, and get cursed to relive the curse of, idk, Ladyhawke. With J2, I find the movie plot adaptations much more palatable, because I can just treat them like roles the guys play, since they are already actors. Like a movie remake more than an AU, I guess.
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Date: 2008-05-04 09:38 pm (UTC)I guess my overriding problem here is that I am not truly a fan of movie AUs. Not when it comes to Sam and Dean, anyway. I like ceteris paribus type AUs in the Supernatural world. What if the boys were raised apart. What if Mary didn't die. What if Sam didn't date Jess, what if Dean was the one who left, what if there were no demons, what if... Those are questions I like exploring, because it's always interesting to see how the author brings the boys back to being the Sam and Dean we know (or not quite the Sam and Dean we know), or how much the entire world changes or does not change based on one single different detail. Throwing a movie plot into the mix jars me, unless that movie plot is somehow part of a case Sam and Dean are working on. Like, if, for example, Sam and Dean are going along, doing what it is they do, and get cursed to relive the curse of, idk, Ladyhawke.
With J2, I find the movie plot adaptations much more palatable, because I can just treat them like roles the guys play, since they are already actors. Like a movie remake more than an AU, I guess.