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.....)

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[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.