A thought that could also be a question for other writers

[leethet]

Given the upsurge in readership post-movie, I find it feels really odd to me to think of people reading my stories and picturing the movie-verse guys in them. I can't even imagine it - not having seen the film I can't see those actors/characters at all, let alone in my stories - but considering the possibility is really weird.

Am I the only one who thinks about that?

Comments

[graculus.livejournal.com]

From what I've seen on Tumblr at least (which I accept is hardly a statistically significant sampling method!) a lot of people seem to be watching the movie (& maybe reading associated fic), going 'hey, there's a TV show' and then discovering that said TV show has (a lot of) fic. There seem to be a lot of comments about watching the TV show or asking where they can do that, so I think people aren't just jumping from one to the other.

Are you getting comments that make you think that folks are trying to slot movie-UNCLE characters into TV-UNCLE stories? I have to admit I've seen a up-tick in both folks reading my TV-UNCLE stuff and in kudos for it, but I'd not thought that people were trying to shoehorn characters from what I consider to be a separate universe into another one.

If they are, then I wonder what they make of Pocket!Illya when he appears? ;)

[leethet.livejournal.com]

No one has said anything to that effect, I just assume the upsurge has to be due to the movie and that some of those readers probably haven't seen the TV show, so it made me wonder if they're viewing the movie-verse characters. I mean, if they haven't seen the tv show, they'd have to be viewing the movie-verse characters. It was just an interesting thought.