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[butterfly]

I am certain that no one on my flist needs to hear this, but I need to say it -- the most recent episode of Smallville was not an AU. It was all in Clark's head as he was being attacked by a phantom. An AU is an alternate universe -- Labyrinth was a possession-induced vision that Clark had to fight out of. It was not real in the Smallville universe and unless you actually do believe that we're supposed to believe that there's a universe out there with a human Clark Kent who lives in an asylum and washes with Jorel soap, the term 'AU' does not apply. This is not a world without shrimp -- this is Clark's head.

*sigh*

I really shouldn't visit TWoP.

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[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

I see the term A/U abused all over the place, and it annoys me too. For example, the Voyager episode Living Witness. The entire action of that episode took place in a piece of historical fiction written 900 years later on an alien planet, and yet people call it A/U. People also write the most awful fic for it, which makes me especially twitchy about it.

Then there's Roswell's I Married An Alien, which isn't even a fully formed story, it's just little snippets that Isabel imagines during the course of the episode, and it gets called A/U . . . or that second season Halloween episode of Dark Angel . . . or any of the ridiculous coma fantasy episodes from the final season of X-Files . . .

Yes, I get your rant. Sadly, being right doesn't mean you win the argument. Frustrating, isn't it?

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Yes, I get your rant. Sadly, being right doesn't mean you win the argument. Frustrating, isn't it?

It really is.

*sigh*

This is why I like LJ so much. I can avoid the people who fail to make any sense.