Wait, there's a dark!Glinda? A dark!Glinda???? With w00bie!Elphie???? *dies*
Some writers talked about dark!Wilson as an experiment: taking the character and seeing how far his characterization could be pushed. They saw it as an experiment in power, which is indeed interesting, even if it's not quite to my taste. However, I doubt that's what motivates most of the fans of dark!Wilson, where it's really more about w00bie!House and his martyrdom. I don't get the urge to w00bify, but this reminded me of the kind of w00bification that happens in ships like Spike/Buffy, Kara/Lee or even Michael/Nikita. Except that I've always had this hypothesis that most slashers have a more equal view of their ship, simply because they ship it out of choice and not compulsion (Michael loves Nikita, so I have no option but to pair them together...), but now I stand corrected? Or is it that the House/Wilson dynamic similarly *compels* some fen to pair them together (which makes sense, because they *are* brOTP forever), even though they disapprove of, or even dislike Wilson and his 'treatment' of House?
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Date: 2009-04-07 04:13 am (UTC)Some writers talked about dark!Wilson as an experiment: taking the character and seeing how far his characterization could be pushed. They saw it as an experiment in power, which is indeed interesting, even if it's not quite to my taste. However, I doubt that's what motivates most of the fans of dark!Wilson, where it's really more about w00bie!House and his martyrdom. I don't get the urge to w00bify, but this reminded me of the kind of w00bification that happens in ships like Spike/Buffy, Kara/Lee or even Michael/Nikita. Except that I've always had this hypothesis that most slashers have a more equal view of their ship, simply because they ship it out of choice and not compulsion (Michael loves Nikita, so I have no option but to pair them together...), but now I stand corrected? Or is it that the House/Wilson dynamic similarly *compels* some fen to pair them together (which makes sense, because they *are* brOTP forever), even though they disapprove of, or even dislike Wilson and his 'treatment' of House?