ratcreature: RatCreature as Spock (trek)
RatCreature ([personal profile] ratcreature) wrote2009-07-21 10:20 pm

my pet peeve of the day

It drives me absolutely crazy when in ST:AOS fic the older, time-traveling Spock is called "Spock Prime" within the story text, assuming the story is told from a POV character withing the fictional universe rather than some jokey outside parody narrator or omniscient meta fiction narrator. It's fine for a pairing label, but please, please find some other way to distinguish the character from the younger Spock in the text. I am usually not that picky about narrative voice, but this just throws me out of the story in a way from which I can't recover. It's one of the few things that will just make me stop reading immediately in this fandom.

[identity profile] jacquez.livejournal.com 2009-07-21 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, I'm glad I haven't run across that one yet!
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[personal profile] sholio 2009-07-22 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Oh god, people actually do that? HEAD, meet DESK.

I must admit that one of the hardest things about writing multiple versions of a character is clearly identifying who's talking, and I've read some pretty clunky examples in SGA fandom. But I don't think I've ever seen anything THAT clunky.