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whiskyinmind
06 January 2008 @ 05:24 pm
Buffyverse poll! YAHF - yay or nay?  
I may be validating/rolling my eyes over at I Need A Parrot right about now, and the thought came up - as it often does - what's with the fascination for YAHFs? (Yet Another Halloween Fics)

(Oh? And the plural of 'Scooby' is not 'Scooby's'. I'm just saying, if I was being a real pain in the ass I could boot it for bad spelling and use that as an example...)



[Poll #1116557]

(And, if you haven't read it, The Many Lives of Xander Harris by [livejournal.com profile] m_mcgregor is so funny because of stories like the one I have open in a tab right now... and which I can't find anything actually wrong with apart from a couple of spelling mistakes and some not-great formatting...)
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[identity profile] booster17.livejournal.com on January 6th, 2008 05:30 pm (UTC)
Mainly I suspect it's done as a lazy short-cut by writers who can't be bothered to put much thought into the setup for their crossover.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on January 6th, 2008 05:33 pm (UTC)
Very good point - the laziest one I ever read (pre-validation on INaP) was one which was almost pure dialogue, as in the entire script of the episode, with the only change being the last line when Xander looks up and he's whatever character the 'writer' wanted to input. If they'd then gone on and continued the story with the new character it could have worked, but they just ended it there.