Each fandom seems to gather its own set of cliches.
Chicken-and-egg question: do they come about because writers are reading them in other people's work and they get subconsciously (well, or consciously) 'imprinted' and start popping up everywhere, I wonder?
Or is it something about the characters themselves that just makes everyone in the collective unconscious go, "Right! I really want to see them shag on Jack's desk with lots of buttons popping and Jack saying 'Don't call me sir!'?
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timeasmymeasure
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Date: 2007-02-25 06:48 pm (UTC)Amen to that.
Each fandom seems to gather its own set of cliches.
Chicken-and-egg question: do they come about because writers are reading them in other people's work and they get subconsciously (well, or consciously) 'imprinted' and start popping up everywhere, I wonder?
Or is it something about the characters themselves that just makes everyone in the collective unconscious go, "Right! I really want to see them shag on Jack's desk with lots of buttons popping and Jack saying 'Don't call me sir!'?