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valinor spider party ([personal profile] aria) wrote2010-10-09 01:22 pm

I want your love and I want your revenge

In ... 2007? but mostly in 2008, I was really, really into Doctor/Master. It hit pretty much every single one of my (some of them previously undiscovered) buttons: they were best friends when they were young, who eventually had a massive falling-out due to dramatic difference in worldview; all grown up, now one of them saves the universe but mostly Earth while sometimes being suspiciously messianic, and the other concocts increasingly ridiculous schemes, ostensibly to rule/destroy the world but mostly to get his ex-boyfriend's attention; together, they don't so much fight crime as distract each other sufficiently to keep the world from ending. Oh, and they're aliens, and routinely break the laws of physics. And the best part is that I didn't find myself with just a few precious shippy episodes: no, these guys had an excess of forty freaking years of history and canon and debatable canon and general absurdity.

Perhaps you can see where I'm going with this.

I'm being good and finishing my work and packing and generally doing all those pre-travel things one must do, but I'm starting to run out of Smallville episodes with promising summaries, and it's not like all the other clips of the Bad Romance vid didn't look just as ridiculously shippy. I'm frankly bewildered. I've always been pretty good at avoiding the sucking vortex of comics, and I'm mostly conversant in Marvel anyway (although not for lack of trying; I love you, Batman friends). So I am not quite sure what the hell I am doing! All I know is that none of the other DCU continuity has Chloe, and yet this probably won't be enough to stop me from really, really ill-advised forays into the abyss in search of more good Lex material.

...Speaking of Doctor/Master, which I wasn't really, there are now a bunch of cryptic teasers for s6 Doctor Who floating around the internets. I have no particular insights, except that most of it sounds hugely awesome, and also I am, as per usual, crossing my fingers for more Master, whether he's Benedict Best-Name-Ever Cumberbatch or not.
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[personal profile] epershand 2010-10-09 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I started to write this before I saw the other comics, but I see that people have already recced Red Son. I am going to sit down this weekend and write up my Smallville recs for you (I thought I had them, but they're buried somewhere in the depths of my old school email account)
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Um, ok, the best superman comic ever is Red Son, which is this AU where the space ship landed in Russia instead of Kansas, in the 1930s, and Superman becomes a Great Soviet Hero. And Lex comes up with all of his elaborate schemes from the history of Superman comics... to save America from the Alien Soviet threat.
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[personal profile] epershand 2010-10-09 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, how did I manage to post the previous comment without using my Red Son icon? Batman!

Question: Do you have any interest in other DCU fic? Te's batfamily stuff is awesome. And there's also a lot of Lex/Clark/Bruce combos in my favorites. Also Robin/Superboy.
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[personal profile] epershand 2010-10-10 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Aaah I have been sucked down into the void that is awesome Smallville fic I haven't read since 2004 aaaaahhhhh. I am kind of hating you right now. But also kind of loving you.

But will I get through this without re-reading every story? Unclear.