What Bit Of Fan Fic/Edit/Theory Made a Thing Better or even GREAT For You?

[Reynard]

The other Star Wars threads got me thinking about this, but I wanted to open it up to fan creations, edits, theories and fiction in general.

What examples of the above elevated a piece of entertainment for you?

I will explain with one of the first things that popped to my mind:

 

[humble minion]

This classic about the Brendan Fraser Mummy film (which was one of my all time favourites even before reading this…) sprang immediately to mind…

 

[Reynard]

This classic about the Brendan Fraser Mummy film (which was one of my all time favourites before reading this…) sprang immediately to mind…

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Wow. That's great.

Aside: I am forever sad that the original Mummy movie did not give us a long series of Brendan Frasier as (then) modern Indiana Jones.

 

[MoonSong]

To me the "Bond is a codename" works very well.

I think I have some other examples, but can't remember them at the time.

 

[TheHand]

Spoiler: Inception

That the whole movie is a dream, the main character is dreaming even at the start and he’s lost in Limbo. All the other characters are trying to get him out.

Spoiler: Evangelion

That each form of the media, from manga, anime series, extra ending movie, and most recent movies are not a retelling of the same story… rather that they are different iterations of the same do-over that Shinji keeps invoking at the very end… until he finally gets it “right” in the end. There are actually little hints through the different series that support this. It’s also a bit meta for the creator who kept wanting to redo it until he got it “right”

 

[overgeeked]

Rowan Atkinson played Doctor Who for a Red Nose Day special, Curse of Fatal Death.

Rowan Atkinson played Blackadder with a constant companion, Baldric.

Rowan Atkinson played the amazing Mr Bean.

This is all one character. The Doctor.

Mr Bean is his regeneration madness.

Blackadder is his run of historicals.

Curse of Fatal Death is his finale and regeneration.

 

[jdrakeh]

The fan (conspiracy) theory that Captain Ron is just pre-collapse Snake Plissken makes both Captain Ron and Escape From New York more fun for me.

 

[payn]

Commander Shepard fighting Reaper indoctrination theory.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Room 237.

If you haven't seen it, here's the Wikipedia. Not only is the film itself masterful and enthralling, it serves as a wonderful reminder that while critical analysis of a text is rewarding, the obsessive nature of fandom and overreading of a text results in madness.

It's the nature of fandom. There is a fine line between love and obsession, between caring for something and loving it 1,000 crazy percent.

 

[Mad_Jack]

It's a bit old-fashioned by now, since every tv series that manages to make it past the pilot episode these days eventually does a crossover episode (if the pilot episode itself wasn't a spinoff or crossover), but I've always been a big fan of the Tommy Westphall theory. I mean, barring clearly sci-fi and fantasy stuff, there's not too many shows out there that wouldn't benefit from having Detective John Munch show up for a cameo, lol.

When I first came across the theory, and realized how many shows were legitimately connected, it kinda blew my mind.