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

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Having seen the movie, I can't picture the movie characters in my stories at all. Until you said that, it never occurred to me that someone else might--but I suppose they do. I can't imagine it's a very satisfactory read though.

I tend toward psychological examination of the characters more than anything else and the characters really are very different.tbh when someone says you could read this story and exchange the characters and it would still work, I suspect it's pretty much an any two guys story and pass it by.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Hey, anything that gets folks to read MFU is not a bad thing.

Hadn't even thought about it myself, so I guess the answer to your question night be yes.

[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? ;)

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Since comments are rarely left, just kudos, I'm not sure if the people reading my stories are fans of the movie, or fans of the show. I did go back and change the heading from "Man from UNCLE" to "Man from UNCLE - TV show," so they should be aware of where my stories are set. And, truly, I think it would be hard to fit the characters from the movies into my stories, since I think there's a big difference between them and those of the show.

I have noticed that I'm getting more readers, but I guess I've sort of hoped that it's new fans of the show, fans who would have seen the movie and become curious about the show.

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

I've re-read some of my stories with the movie verse in mind. It's not too much of a stretch and with a little jiggling, movie verse readers could still read about half of my stories with no problem.