LFN Season-One-Watching follow-up

[katallison]

At its best, and for all that it went seriously off the rails in later seasons, LFN is absolutely distinctive in the mostly-pablumish world of mainstream TV for its adherence to a particularly relentless and nihilistic worldview. In which:

Connection = Doom
Mercy = Cruelty
Love = Death

It is, truly, the universe within which No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.

I wish I had the stuff to write really authentic LFN fanfiction. (I was, for a while, cogitating a story in which Methos ends up in Section One, but it never quite jelled.) Failing which, I salute with respect the show's ability bring the pain, to play out the inexorable arithmetic of its premises to their logical conclusions.

(On further reflection ... the story in which Fraser, somehow, ends up in Section One? That would be *really* interesting. Hmmmm.....)

Comments

[brynwulf]

So..what would I have to do to entice you to writing that little snippet. And I loved the beginnings of your Methos/LFN xover (it was you that I read that in wasn't it?...hmmm, maybe Maygra). Anyway, I always thought it was an excellent pairing of Methos/Michael. Of course, I can pretty much make up a story for methos and anyone.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Oh dear god, poor Fraser. Madeline would eat him alive. Sob!

I know what you mean about writing fic -- somehow it never happened for me. Vidding yes, but writing no, and I never really figured out why. But that's one of the things I loved most about it, and of course one of the reasons it never was the huge hit it could have been -- it never strayed from the pain. When they said pain, they meant it. Which, since I love bleak and pain, appealed to me a lot, but they never really gave us an inch. I used to fanasize about a Buffy goes to Section story. Bleak and funny both, but I could never figure out how to walk the line.

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

Ouch, I think that if Fraser wound up in Section One, and the storySection stuck to its (lack of) principles -- Fraser would die. Fairly quickly.

I mean, they kept telling Nikita that if she wasn't willing -- hell, if she didn't show eager -- to fall in with Section practices, they'd snuff her and try with somebody else. She stayed alive partly because, well, she's the star, and partly because she was willing to do some pretty gruesome things to save herself right from the beginning (when Michael abandons her in the restaurant), and partly, after a while, because she had turned out to be just so damn good at the job that she had become too valuable a resource to trash. (And later, of course, beacuse she was blackmailing them, but that's probably into what you're calling "seriously off the rails.") It wouldn't be impossible for Fraser to do the same. But I think he'd have been a lot less willing to blow people away on Section's say-so or just to save his own skin, and the odds of either the other side succeeding in killing him or Section putting him in abeyance are very very high.

Which isn't to say that he couldn't have survived, of course; or that it couldn't be a really interesting story whichever way it went. ::hopes::

For a while (before the show revealed too much about Birkoff's background that contradicted my idea of the character), I was considering a crossover in which Birkoff met Krycek. (Plus, the only way to explain some of Section One's capacities is to claim alien tech.) I had a whole thing worked out in my head, but that's where it stayed . . .

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

The only LFN I've seen are the CKR episodes, but even then the bleakness struck me. And, if you were so inclined, I'd be eager to read a Methos-centric crossover. Of course, this might be because I'd read Methos anywhere . . .