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

[Bohandas]

In terms of fan theories:

Wall-E is Satan. At the start of that film humanity resides in an edenic world with no hunger, strife, or work. But, thanks to a plant which Wall-E gives to a character named Eve, they end up in a place where they have to work and toil

EDIT:
My other favorite fan theory is that in The Matrix, the so-called "real world" was actually just another part of the Matrix, which would explain why Neo still had superpowers outside of the Matrix, why the explanation of the Matrix's purpose was nonsensical, why dying in the Matrix could affect you in the 'real' world.

 

[Autumnal]

That Matrix theory struck me as a very strange plausible possibility early on. Still does. I was here at The Thirteenth Floor, minus the very last scene so that the movie ends with the cop in the rain. And eXistenZ, of course.

 

[Retros_x]

That Tommy Westphall thing seems like a meta-contextual joke, the logic behind it doesn't make a lot of sense. It is either a intentional but tongue-in-cheek misapplication or a real misunderstanding of transitive logic. Its like saying "My friend mentioned Mickey Mouse in a story about their real vacation to Florida. Mickey Mouse exists in a Disney cartoon universe. Therefore, my friend's vacation was also a cartoon."

In general I like fan theories in the sense of "enjoying to see interpretations of other people" bit they never made the subject better for me, because in the end only what I think of feel is relevant to my enjoyment of it. It is fun though during an ongoing series to theorize in fan communities how everything will play out, I enjoy that a lot. I would just not recommend taking it too serious though. Too often I witnessed fans getting angry about an series because it didn't ended how they thought it would end up in their theories, no matter how far fatched they were.

 

[Ryujin]

That Tommy Westphall thing seems like a meta-contextual joke, the logic behind it doesn't make a lot of sense. It is either a intentional but tongue-in-cheek misapplication or a real misunderstanding of transitive logic. Its like saying "My friend mentioned Mickey Mouse in a story about their real vacation to Florida. Mickey Mouse exists in a Disney cartoon universe. Therefore, my friend's vacation was also a cartoon."

In general I like fan theories in the sense of "enjoying to see interpretations of other people" bit they never made the subject better for me, because in the end only what I think of feel is relevant to my enjoyment of it. It is fun though during an ongoing series to theorize in fan communities how everything will play out, I enjoy that a lot. I would just not recommend taking it too serious though. Too often I witnessed fans getting angry about an series because it didn't ended how they thought it would end up in their theories, no matter how far fatched they were.

How about the theory that Kurt Russell's "Soldier" takes place in the "Bladerunner" universe?

 

[SkidAce]

I mean, look at the service record!

 

[Reynard]

That Matrix theory struck me as a very strange plausible possibility early on. Still does. I was here at The Thirteenth Floor, minus the very last scene so that the movie ends with the cop in the rain. And eXistenZ, of course.

I sometimes forget that we had this weird end of millenium philosophical debate in action movies.

 

[Ryujin]

I mean, look at the service record!

The full record. Note Tannhauser Gate

 

[Benjamin Olson]

That Tommy Westphall thing seems like a meta-contextual joke, the logic behind it doesn't make a lot of sense. It is either a intentional but tongue-in-cheek misapplication or a real misunderstanding of transitive logic. Its like saying "My friend mentioned Mickey Mouse in a story about their real vacation to Florida. Mickey Mouse exists in a Disney cartoon universe. Therefore, my friend's vacation was also a cartoon."

Fundamentally its just a joke about how stupid the end of St. Elsewhere was. Endings that recontextualize a whole series, season or whatever as a dream or such are frustrating, because being a tv show is already sufficient abstraction from reality; just have a narrative and stick with it. Recontextualizing the whole series as figments of an autistic child's imagination was laughably stupid because the narratives were not written to support that, and the fact that the show was brimming with crossovers draws further attention to this fact ("did the kid dream up Cheers too!" and such). Someone's tongue-in-cheek thought experiment to determine how frustratingly stupid the end of this one series, on close analysis, really was, clearly took on a life of its own once the effort got crowd-sourced, with an emphasis on quantity of connections over them really being remotely meaningful.