[Poll] Moar Science!

[thefourthvine]

A number of people have made excellent points about the poll, round one. First, obviously it was wrong wrong wrong of me to combine Torchwood and Doctor Who, and against the nature of SCIENCE. Second, I left out a number of fandoms that clearly needed to be subjected to the keen-eyed scrutiny of SCIENCE. (Thanks to everyone who suggested one, and I tried to grab them all. If I missed one, um, sorry!)

So, behind the cut: yet more science, for your scientific convenience!



Remember, one = low low quality (fanfiction.net would be ashamed to host it!) or low low slashiness (rulers dream of being so straight!). Ten = super high quality (earth-shattering genius, like Shakespeare except BETTER!) or super high slashiness (time spent canonically sucking cock or fingering each other could only reduce the overall slashy quotient!).

And, again, vote based on what you think. Never mind fandom's opinion! I want to look into your heart, your soul, your brain. Or, rather, SCIENCE does.

And thank you. With your help, we will at last be able to plot our loves on a really shiny chart. I think that's a dream we can all embrace.

[Poll #1352948]

Comments

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

X-Files was really hard to judge with regard to writing quality! They varied wildly over the run of the series -- sometimes excellent, sometimes abysmal. And the mytharc made no sense, and most of the slashy bits involved Mulder/Krycek. Oh, X-Files.

I am also amused at the wild spread currently in place over original Star Wars slashiness. I suspect that has something to do with how young many were the first time they saw it.

[milady1844.livejournal.com]

I totally agree about the original Star Wars. I saw it when it first came out & I was 11. Slash wasn't even on my radar. In fact, I cannot look at the originals with slash glasses, I've tried and I just can't.

Ironically it was TPM that got me into slash in the first place. I sat through that first movie thinking, "They are so doing it!" about Obi & Qui.

[erjika.livejournal.com]

Regarding both original SW and TPM: me too! :O

[ladysorka]

I'm not sure age has anything to do with it for me with Star Wars - I gleefully slash many other things I first saw/read under 10. For me it's just that I can't, for the life of me, see Han/Luke at all. I can do Han/Lando, I can do Luke/Biggs or Luke/Wedge, hell, I can do Han/Chewbacca. But I can't see Han/Luke, which brings the slash level down quite a bit for me, since they're the primarily m/m interaction (and there really isn't any f/f). ...and droids don't count.

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

don't let basingstoke hear you say droids don't count! :D (see her series "droids need love too", at her site (http://www.ravenswing.com/~bas/).)

I'm basically the same. I can see Han/Lando, in a drunken post-sabacc way; I can see Luke/Wedge if I squint, but Han/Luke just...baffles me. Sometimes men competing over a woman are just...men competing over a woman.

[strangerian.livejournal.com]

That's exactly it about X-Files. It went downhill rapidly after seasons 5 (or so) and stayed on the air for so long after it went bad, that the average quality overall after the fact is wildly different than the score for individual early seasons. Also, it weirdly gave off a slash vibe for the central m/f couple, which would be only normal in a sane world but, um, look around. The "partners beyond death in adversity" feel of it, the free-floating *slash* feeling, I think was one factor in spurring the huge Mulder/Krycek fandom. There had to be slash *somewhere*! And Nicholas Lea was prettiest.

[dossier.livejournal.com]

And Nicholas Lea was prettiest

I completely agree.