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schneefinkI watched "The Maze Runner" yesterday and I enjoyed it. I'd heard of the premise and thought it was ridiculous, but no worse than the Hunger Games. Mostly I can't believe anyone would go to the trouble of building such an intricate maze, but fortunately I managed not to be distracted by that, and they left the mystery of the reason behind it mostly open but at least lampshaded it a bit.
Despite the fact that they're trapped in the middle of a maze, have amnesia, were experimented on, have to face monsters and the outside world is destroyed, it seems less dystopic than the Hunger Games. Probably because it's so isolated, while in Panem you have a whole huge system that's been in place for decades, and that forces children to kill each other. I'm interested in post-movie fic for the Maze Runner, either with the unknown soldiers but also without. I know there are sequels to the book, but I think I'll ignore them.
I liked the "Lord of the Flies" aspect of it, only instead of killing each other they managed to develop a functioning system. Alby was the first, that must have been terrifying. I liked the friendship between Alby, Newt, and Minho, and how they lead the group. I liked Chuck, and I even liked Gally and thought his actions were understandable. I want fic about trying to build a life in the Glade.
The action scenes were good. Thomas was good, and I liked Theresa but felt like she could have been used better. Maybe in the sequel. (Fic about Theresa trying to figure out how best to deal with periods.)
So in short, I want a lot of fic. Unfortunately a lot of what's on AO3 appears to be AU and I'm less interested in that, but I've only looked briefly so far. I want to write so many Yuletide treats for the movie now but there's not enough time, dammit. Maybe next year.
For the December meme, a question bytheladyscribe: what was your first fandom and do you still read/watch/write it?
I'm not sure what my first fandom was, it depends on the criteria. I started making up my own characters and stories to worlds from books very early, and with many of these old fandoms I can't remember in which order I started them. I think my Karl May phase was pretty early?
Some early fandoms that I wrote fic in were Star Trek (only the tie-in novels, I didn't see an episode or a movie until years later) and Beyblade, I started writing self-insert fic for these two in 2004. I also wrote One Piece fic, but I can't find it anymore and I think that was a bit later.
Two of the earliest fandoms that I found online were Lord of the Rings (I never wrote fic for it though), Beyblade, and One Piece (but more discussion and less fic.) And I think the next one might have already been SGA? I think I first saw SGA in 2006/2007, then I read a lot on ff.net and on people's author websites, then I started stalking LJ, and I created my own LJ account in 2009.
So the answer's mostly no. I only read Star Trek when a fic is recced, same with LotR; I still follow One Piece but I've never read much fic and at the moment pretty much none, and I haven't read Beyblade in years. (Wow, thinking of Beyblade makes me feel nostalgic.)
Despite the fact that they're trapped in the middle of a maze, have amnesia, were experimented on, have to face monsters and the outside world is destroyed, it seems less dystopic than the Hunger Games. Probably because it's so isolated, while in Panem you have a whole huge system that's been in place for decades, and that forces children to kill each other. I'm interested in post-movie fic for the Maze Runner, either with the unknown soldiers but also without. I know there are sequels to the book, but I think I'll ignore them.
I liked the "Lord of the Flies" aspect of it, only instead of killing each other they managed to develop a functioning system. Alby was the first, that must have been terrifying. I liked the friendship between Alby, Newt, and Minho, and how they lead the group. I liked Chuck, and I even liked Gally and thought his actions were understandable. I want fic about trying to build a life in the Glade.
The action scenes were good. Thomas was good, and I liked Theresa but felt like she could have been used better. Maybe in the sequel. (Fic about Theresa trying to figure out how best to deal with periods.)
So in short, I want a lot of fic. Unfortunately a lot of what's on AO3 appears to be AU and I'm less interested in that, but I've only looked briefly so far. I want to write so many Yuletide treats for the movie now but there's not enough time, dammit. Maybe next year.
For the December meme, a question by
theladyscribe: what was your first fandom and do you still read/watch/write it?I'm not sure what my first fandom was, it depends on the criteria. I started making up my own characters and stories to worlds from books very early, and with many of these old fandoms I can't remember in which order I started them. I think my Karl May phase was pretty early?
Some early fandoms that I wrote fic in were Star Trek (only the tie-in novels, I didn't see an episode or a movie until years later) and Beyblade, I started writing self-insert fic for these two in 2004. I also wrote One Piece fic, but I can't find it anymore and I think that was a bit later.
Two of the earliest fandoms that I found online were Lord of the Rings (I never wrote fic for it though), Beyblade, and One Piece (but more discussion and less fic.) And I think the next one might have already been SGA? I think I first saw SGA in 2006/2007, then I read a lot on ff.net and on people's author websites, then I started stalking LJ, and I created my own LJ account in 2009.
So the answer's mostly no. I only read Star Trek when a fic is recced, same with LotR; I still follow One Piece but I've never read much fic and at the moment pretty much none, and I haven't read Beyblade in years. (Wow, thinking of Beyblade makes me feel nostalgic.)
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