Question(s)/Discussion for X-fans
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rhienellethSo, since I haven't read the comic in...forever, what ever happened with the "Gambit's blind" storyline of a couple years ago? (Yes, occassionally I pick up an issue and leaf through it at Borders.) What's up with Gambit and Rogue these days? (In the main book, not the alternate storyline book "Ultimate". I know what happens to Gambit there.)
Also, can anyone point me to some good G/R fic?
And lastly, how do you fic writers deal with the odd continuity issues inherent in the long running X-title(s)? This is one of the reasons I stopped reading the comics. Writing that re-writes character histories, inexplicably ignores plot points until they vanish as if never written, destroys character personalities, etc. Difficut enough to write fic in a fandom where canon is easy to follow, but to do so for the X-books...I'm just wondering how you all handle it.
And while we're at it, what about Wolverine? Arguably my favorite character, I stopped reading when Magneto ripped out his adamantium skeleton, though I know he gained it back some issues (years?) later somehow...so what's up with him currently? *is curious for curiousity's sake*
If you don't know the answers to these questions, but someone on your f-list might, feel free to point them this way. Obviously X3 has put me in a state of X-nostalgia.
Also, can anyone point me to some good G/R fic?
And lastly, how do you fic writers deal with the odd continuity issues inherent in the long running X-title(s)? This is one of the reasons I stopped reading the comics. Writing that re-writes character histories, inexplicably ignores plot points until they vanish as if never written, destroys character personalities, etc. Difficut enough to write fic in a fandom where canon is easy to follow, but to do so for the X-books...I'm just wondering how you all handle it.
And while we're at it, what about Wolverine? Arguably my favorite character, I stopped reading when Magneto ripped out his adamantium skeleton, though I know he gained it back some issues (years?) later somehow...so what's up with him currently? *is curious for curiousity's sake*
If you don't know the answers to these questions, but someone on your f-list might, feel free to point them this way. Obviously X3 has put me in a state of X-nostalgia.
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Date: 2006-06-14 08:44 pm (UTC)It's simpler for movieverse. Hugh Jackman + Anna Paquin = Happy!Lex. :->
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Date: 2006-06-15 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-15 05:45 pm (UTC)And, personally, I'd love a G/R update, too! I haven't read the main X title since Rogue was leading one of the teams and, yeah, I think Gambit may have been blind because she was demanding he stay home from missions.
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Date: 2006-06-15 05:55 pm (UTC)Not that I'm a hopeless romantic, or anything.
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Date: 2006-06-15 06:06 pm (UTC)But, yeah, I'm a hopeless romantic about Rogue and Gambit, too. For me, they're just an absolute bulletproof OTP, every incarnation, every AU, BOTH cartoons, etc. I can't 'ship that little whiny emo Rogue in the films with Logan because it doesn't work for me. It can't. And because she's little, whiny and emo. LOL. Where's my brassy belle with the huge boobs, hmm?
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Date: 2006-06-15 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-15 06:29 pm (UTC)It's kind of sad, really.
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Date: 2006-06-15 06:32 pm (UTC)Gambit and non-whiny Rogue? You are so my new best friend.
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Date: 2006-06-15 06:39 pm (UTC)Hmm. Which, I guess means that I probably shouldn't have mentioned it! But it seemed topical.
I was actually enabled in the exercise by another friend of mine who is actually IN movieverse fandom (which I have never really been because, much like you, I cannot deal with most of the movieverse pairings) who informed me that it really did not exist in the fic. Which I found both surprising and depressing!
I hope this does not disqualify me as a potential friend! Because after looking at your interests and icons, I feel that perhaps WE ARE MEANT TO BE.
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Date: 2006-06-15 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-15 06:57 pm (UTC)Also the fic posting should be...soonish!
I am also terribly fond of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Date: 2006-06-15 07:03 pm (UTC)here courtesy of <lj user="voleuse">
Date: 2006-06-15 06:10 pm (UTC)As far as I can gather, the whole blindness thing went away a while ago. They were together, but Mystique was trying to break them up and hook Rogue up with some new guy. Then Gambit became a horseman of Apocalypse (Death to be exact) but he's still in love with Rogue through all the brainwashing and failed at killing her or summat.
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Date: 2006-06-15 06:22 pm (UTC)Oh God. This is so exactly a direct example of why I kicked the comic habit. A horseman of Apocalypse? Maybe the story works better than it sounds...what have they done to my Cajun king of thieves?!
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Date: 2006-06-15 06:24 pm (UTC)Like I said, I have no firsthand information.
But then I tend to not get up in arms about whatever random crack happens in comics because, well, just wait a while and it'll go away. I also find waiting until a storyline is over before deciding whether to bother reading it is also a nice practice if one is going to read any major titles.
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