Sometimes the way-out-there AUs can be really satisfying.
I'm trying to think of any story which was truly *out there* that I've enjoyed, and I'm coming up blank. I've got no issues with fantastical premises--but the world with that premise still should be a type of variation of the world on the show, and most importantly, the characters *must* remain recognizable. That's why "The World Upside Down" works so well despite the premise--the voices are note-perfect.
The thing is, I'm a stickler for canon. The writer can take canon to the extreme but still plausible direction and make the story compelling (e.g. many fabulous post-colonization stories in The X-Files), but if you throw Mulder and Scully into some weird-ass fantasy land where Mulder is a wizard and Scully is... God knows what, I'm not gonna buy it, man. But that's just me.
Not finish any projects.
And try to take over the world.
Not finish any projects.
And try to take over the world.
Note the "try". See: statement about projects.
Le *sigh*
Weird-ass premise? How about a replay of
The African Queen
with Ray and Fraser in the appropriate roles?
Eh. I read that one, and you know, it didn't even make my Bottom 10 list. It isn't even in my 10 Most Memorable Movies Rewritten with the Characters Replaced By Our Boys Calling Itself Fanfic list.
It's probably on my Top Ten I Wish I'd Written.
Ahem.
Pregnant!Harvey.
Ah, but that wasn't AU, it was dream sequence! Different thing altogether.
t standing up for the MPREG (for once)
Good Omens. With the boys as humans.
Pregnant!Harvey.
Ah, but that wasn't AU, it was dream sequence! Different thing altogether.
Good point. My bad. Although I wasn't mocking it -- I *love* Pregnant!Harvey. Lovelovelove.
I have no idea what you people are talking about, but I'm getting hideous visions of
Cagney & Lacey
mpreg. Why would you do that to me?