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matrixrefugeeSeems like you can't have a great movie come out without the fankiddies wreaking fanfiction havoc with the plot and characters, and I *KNEW* as soon as Hugo Weaving was cast as V, that the badfic would begin. So far, we haven't seen any "V-Rescues-Mary-Sue" (or as we're calling it "Evey Hammond? Evey Hammond who?"), but the V/Evey romance-fics are creeping in. Nothing too sugary just yet, but that will come. I've yet to see the subtext nightmare-fic that is haunting my mind, said pairing would be Prothero/V or V/Prothero; personally, I think there's something a little ::Makes limp-wristed gesture, but not in a nasty way:: about graphic novel!Prothero, despite all his locker-room blather to his buddies, but movie!Prothero seems more straight to me. Just my observation. (I'm also not keen on how they handled what happens to movie!Prothero: the fate of graphic novel!Prothero is infinitely scarier, but I suppose the Wachowskis et al didn't want to leave the audience too unsettled... Why then was a "Schindler's List"-esque bit with a mass grave able to slip past the bastard-child of censorship known as "Marketability", but having a man reduced to a feeble-minded, catatonic lump is verboten?)
All right, the gloves are coming off:
I don't want to see V/anyone smutfic. I just don't. We know it's gonna happen; as another Hugo Weaving character would put it, "It is inevitable". I just don't want to see the summaries all over ff.n with "V/::insert name:: smut" or some variation thereon. Think about it. The guy was burned in the explosion that destroyed the medical experimentation wing at Lark Hill; what we see in the brief bit where his gloves are off... that might just be mild compared to what the rest of him looks like under his mask and under his modernized 17th-century doublet and breeches. And for that matter, could a man that badly burned even be able to perform sexually? And for that matter, there's something sacreligous about seeing what might lie behind V's mask. I like how Allan Moore and David Lloyd handled the bits in the graphic novel where V *does* remove his mask: showing us the flesh behind the mask would somehow damage V's mystique.
To be honest, I like how the Wachowskis changed the ending: there's a little more hope, and we get the feeling that maybe Evey hasn't been completely been overtaken by V's ideology (the symbolism of the graphic novel's ending was shiver-inducing, but good in its own right). What I don't want to see are fics where V survives the confrontation with Creedy's men. Why? Because V had to die. Whatever new society that would spring up in the wake of the Party's collapse (hopefully a free society), there would be no place in it for V, because, by his nature as a destroyer, he would be too dangerous to that society. It's like the samurai warrior ethic: the men of that class were so devoted to their code of vigilante justice, so hard-wired for it that they couldn't intergrate well into society when peace was finally restored. Sorry, kiddies, but "Matrix" production-crew alumnae notwithstanding, this isn't the "Matrix"-universe where we've got that question-mark ending, where we're not sure if the hero died in the Real or not (and which is still being puzzled over in a certain MMORPG).
All right, the gloves are coming off:
I don't want to see V/anyone smutfic. I just don't. We know it's gonna happen; as another Hugo Weaving character would put it, "It is inevitable". I just don't want to see the summaries all over ff.n with "V/::insert name:: smut" or some variation thereon. Think about it. The guy was burned in the explosion that destroyed the medical experimentation wing at Lark Hill; what we see in the brief bit where his gloves are off... that might just be mild compared to what the rest of him looks like under his mask and under his modernized 17th-century doublet and breeches. And for that matter, could a man that badly burned even be able to perform sexually? And for that matter, there's something sacreligous about seeing what might lie behind V's mask. I like how Allan Moore and David Lloyd handled the bits in the graphic novel where V *does* remove his mask: showing us the flesh behind the mask would somehow damage V's mystique.
To be honest, I like how the Wachowskis changed the ending: there's a little more hope, and we get the feeling that maybe Evey hasn't been completely been overtaken by V's ideology (the symbolism of the graphic novel's ending was shiver-inducing, but good in its own right). What I don't want to see are fics where V survives the confrontation with Creedy's men. Why? Because V had to die. Whatever new society that would spring up in the wake of the Party's collapse (hopefully a free society), there would be no place in it for V, because, by his nature as a destroyer, he would be too dangerous to that society. It's like the samurai warrior ethic: the men of that class were so devoted to their code of vigilante justice, so hard-wired for it that they couldn't intergrate well into society when peace was finally restored. Sorry, kiddies, but "Matrix" production-crew alumnae notwithstanding, this isn't the "Matrix"-universe where we've got that question-mark ending, where we're not sure if the hero died in the Real or not (and which is still being puzzled over in a certain MMORPG).
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