I mean, sure, a few inseparable childhood friends is one thing, but one's entire social network remaining unchanged since infantcy?
It's preposterous, and it also wrecks the adult dynamics of the original, supposedly-inspirational materials - leave aside the "canon" issue, the gimmick is "hur hur, it's so FUNNEEE to see Widdul!Spock and Widdul!McCoy acting JUST like they do as grownups!" only of course their adult interactions are shaped by their disparate paths through life, and, well, if they'd all gone to the same preschool/kindergarten/high school/college together then they wouldn't BE the different sorts of people they are in the "now" story about them, they just *couldn't* be--!
It becomes insanely head-asplodey if you think about it for longer than a millisecond - and gets worse if you try to figure out how to reconcile it with the prior timelines.
They're not mythic heroes tied together by fate - they're a bunch of people who ended up assigned to the same ship...)
[nod] Because part of the charm of the "adult" series is watching all these different people *create* a rapport, watching various frictions and tensions develop and be overcome, and if everyone has the *exact same* shared backstory then that becomes impossible, so it turns into an AU which overwrites the original timeline like an ouroboros...
(It gets even stupider when part of the canon is identity reveal/powers developing - oh argh, now I'm having nightmarish ideas for a "Camelot Babeez" storyline, quick, somebody hit me with a fish--)
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Wull, yah--
on 2008-11-21 03:51 pm (UTC)It's preposterous, and it also wrecks the adult dynamics of the original, supposedly-inspirational materials - leave aside the "canon" issue, the gimmick is "hur hur, it's so FUNNEEE to see Widdul!Spock and Widdul!McCoy acting JUST like they do as grownups!" only of course their adult interactions are shaped by their disparate paths through life, and, well, if they'd all gone to the same preschool/kindergarten/high school/college together then they wouldn't BE the different sorts of people they are in the "now" story about them, they just *couldn't* be--!
It becomes insanely head-asplodey if you think about it for longer than a millisecond - and gets worse if you try to figure out how to reconcile it with the prior timelines.
They're not mythic heroes tied together by fate - they're a bunch of people who ended up assigned to the same ship...)
[nod] Because part of the charm of the "adult" series is watching all these different people *create* a rapport, watching various frictions and tensions develop and be overcome, and if everyone has the *exact same* shared backstory then that becomes impossible, so it turns into an AU which overwrites the original timeline like an ouroboros...
(It gets even stupider when part of the canon is identity reveal/powers developing - oh argh, now I'm having nightmarish ideas for a "Camelot Babeez" storyline, quick, somebody hit me with a fish--)