Sorry to take so long to digest your reply. Work, you know 😊 (Between that and the BB, I run out of thinking time — I'm supposed to be going to the shops right now...)
MFU definitely has fewer AUs across the board than Pros... I've not seen any that cut U.N.C.L.E. out entirely the way a lot of Pros AUs dispense with CI5.
Judging by fanlore and some of the other things I've run across, I think a number of early Pros writers weren't Pros fans — they liked the cut of the lads' jib, and saw the slash potential, but didn't actually like the programme — apparently viewing it as some kind of paean to what we would today call 'toxic masculinity'. Which is where I think the 'Bodie as thug' trope comes from as well. If they had watched the show they would have realised it wasn't that at all, but actually continually questioned its own moral universe.
But then I would say that, wouldn't I? I am a fan !
Ha. Perhaps it's my bloodthirstiness not my confidence that I need to build up.
This made me smile 😄
ETA: I did see The Golden Compass at the cinema, and I enjoyed it, but — despite the presence of Sam Elliott — it somehow lacked heart. I knew it was part of a series (never made as far as I am aware), but I didn't realise it was from the same stable as His Dark Materials.
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Date: 2021-04-25 12:28 pm (UTC)Sorry to take so long to digest your reply. Work, you know 😊 (Between that and the BB, I run out of thinking time — I'm supposed to be going to the shops right now...)
MFU definitely has fewer AUs across the board than Pros... I've not seen any that cut U.N.C.L.E. out entirely the way a lot of Pros AUs dispense with CI5.
Judging by fanlore and some of the other things I've run across, I think a number of early Pros writers weren't Pros fans — they liked the cut of the lads' jib, and saw the slash potential, but didn't actually like the programme — apparently viewing it as some kind of paean to what we would today call 'toxic masculinity'. Which is where I think the 'Bodie as thug' trope comes from as well. If they had watched the show they would have realised it wasn't that at all, but actually continually questioned its own moral universe.
But then I would say that, wouldn't I? I am a fan !
Ha. Perhaps it's my bloodthirstiness not my confidence that I need to build up.
This made me smile 😄
ETA: I did see The Golden Compass at the cinema, and I enjoyed it, but — despite the presence of Sam Elliott — it somehow lacked heart. I knew it was part of a series (never made as far as I am aware), but I didn't realise it was from the same stable as His Dark Materials.