#AmericanGods drama: "THR claims that Gaiman butted heads with Green and Fuller about the series’ direction going forward, with the author allegedly balking at decisions that would have moved the second season away from a straighter adaptation of his 2001 novel." https://www.avclub.com/the-bryan-fuller-american-gods-breakup-was-apparently-e-1822682450
Huh. I'm on the masto-record as saying that pretty much all the changes from the source material were for the better. https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/1910387
... I mention that because it's rather how the whole Lakeside interval of the #AmericanGods novel feels after watching the show. Hey, let's send our main character off to a quiet backwater for a while, have some well-rendered small-town scenery and character stuff, and then the quaint small town will turn out to have a *dark* *secret*. It's like going to AO3 and clicking Sort By Kudos.
"Season 7 AU fix-it, eventual House/Wilson: Instead of going back home after the crane collapse, House leaves Princeton-Plainsboro and takes a motorcycle road trip, ending up in a quaint small town in northern Wisconsin that just might have a *dark* *secret*."
"Season 3 AU, Neal Caffrey/Peter Burke/Elizabeth Burke: An old friend from Quantico calls in a favor, so Peter takes on a case that leads them out of NYC to a quaint small town in northern Wisconsin that just might have a *dark* *secret*"
"John Reese/Harold Finch, Root/Sameen Shaw, Goliath/Eliza Maza: the Machine gives Harold the number of a child far away from NYC, leading his clan of humans and their gargoyle allies to a quaint small town in northern Wisconsin that just might have a *dark* *secret*"
Ah, I think this is that thing about #Sherlock fanfic-ing itself (while being hostile to its actual fans): https://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-detective-dances-thoughts-on.html
@bstacey this makes so much sense — the more so because I’ve long thought that most weddings (the best ones, anyhow) are families doing fanfiction of themselves. I just didn’t know how to word it until I read that.
@bstacey hmm... I don't know. I love the novel, but the series isa only loosely following the events of the novel, and I feel like some decisions have helped, and some have significantly dumbed it down.
Somewhere I read a review of #Sherlock that I can't find now, which said that the wedding ep in season 3 felt like the show was doing fanfiction of itself. Everyone goes out into the country, there's an old-school locked-room mystery, Sherlock suddenly knows how to dance. It's a thin and kinda gimmicky but serviceable plot you'd use to put your fav characters into the best possible light and just, well, spend more time with them.