Star Trek? I'm so going to see that next week.

[timepiececlock]

I've been reading reviews of the new Star Trek movie and from what I understand the film right off the bat establishes itself as an AU timeline from the original series. I don't know if I'd have gotten that from watching it, because I've only seen a few scattered episodes of the TOS, and have no idea how the crew met or what their various backstories are.

I'm amused a little at this, because it feels so... Gundam. In fact, it's rather like Gundam Wing, where you wanted to reboot the franchise by simply inventing an entire alternate universe storyline and going with it. Except the GW timeline never actually connected to the other Gundam timelines, just existed entirely separate yet part of the franchise. I think there's actually 3 or 4 Gundam continuities.

I don't know if I've ever said this, but people who read my LJ probably know it: I adore Alternate Universes, Alternate Dimensions, and Alternate Continuities in canon. Simply adore them. FMA? Loved it to pieces. Stargate: SG1? Always a good time. Farscape? OH YEAH. Whether it's repeating the same events ad nauseum until you get it right, or living the not-quite-a-trope-yet "lost year" (Voyager, Sailor Moon) that characters are only too happy to forget, I love them.

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[celestinenox]

YAY AUs! Yay for evil versions of good characters and good versions of evil characters (that whole two-episode thing in Charmed with the good universe and the evil universe? AWESOME). YAY for AU fanfic and RPGs, for exploring possible other directions characters and events could have taken. Conclusion: I totally agree with you.

You know what else I love? Episodes of shows where a character is assumed dead, especially if they must allow the rest of the characters to think they're dead for a certain amount of time, and then they come back. Best example of this I remember: The New Adventures of Lois and Clark, in the episode with clone Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde and other gangsters and Clark is shot and point-blank range in front of a club full of people and has to pretend to die unless he wanted to reveal himself as Superman. Two episodes, and for most of the Lois and everyone else believes Clark dead, and meanwhile he gets to angst about having to start over with a new identity and a new life. Awesome stuff, man.

Liked it less in Law & Order: SVU with the district attorney, because we didn't know she was still alive until like a season or so later. It's better when the audience can see what that person goes through.

[gojira007.livejournal.com]

Funny you should mention "Gundam Wing", as I recently found my love of it rekindled by way of "G-Gundam"(it's a long story...) something fierce.

VERY excited for "Star Trek", and I'm interested to see if they can successfully have their cake and eat it too in connecting this alternate timeline to the original one...

[tasogareban.livejournal.com]

This is late but I love AUs also. I've always loved messing with things (fanfiction, I mean) and then shrugging them off because they aren't the actual storylines, just fiction I made up. I LOVE IT!