I have my own concerns with the differences between the two threads. I tend to think that that ideas are easy, and execution is hard, making execution the primary way to tell if an idea will fit my tastes or not. So even something like Gendo/Belldandy which is much easier to implement in a way that wouldn't appeal to me than a way I would care for, doesn't quite count one way or the other for me.
Yes, there are real life people, like Mao Zedong and Joseph Kony, who I know enough about that it would be hard to write something with that I would care for. (I was really apprehensive when I first came across the title of GDF Mao-chan.) Yes, there are canons which I think might be beyond the ability of any living human to execute properly. Yes, there are concepts that I have trouble finding something that would appeal to me in, much less for other people.
I still tend to take 'should not be' as a challange to find a way to use it as a story element that I would care for.
Sometimes something that starts out intended to be very bad, like Sosuke Sagara with the tastes and some of the habits of Hansel and Gretal from Black Lagoon, and Pathan sexual mores, turns out much better than the sister ideas after enough modification.
The use of cross-overs would also seem to preclude single canon probable abominations like 'Azula is the Avatar, and no less psycho than canon'.
In my pedentry, I guess I overlook that the purpose is not perfect taxonomy, but tossing ideas around, having fun, and seeing if anyone gets excited enough to execute one.
I like Beast Wars much more than I dislike Beast Machines.
Speaking of Ragnarok, take Ragnarok (the manhwa, as in Ragnarok Online), Detective Loki, OMG, Nanoha (because Signum has the sword which burns the world), and maybe a Bolo (because Case Ragnarok), and watch either the bodies(should not be) or the friendship(should be) hit the floor.
Yes, there are real life people, like Mao Zedong and Joseph Kony, who I know enough about that it would be hard to write something with that I would care for. (I was really apprehensive when I first came across the title of GDF Mao-chan.) Yes, there are canons which I think might be beyond the ability of any living human to execute properly. Yes, there are concepts that I have trouble finding something that would appeal to me in, much less for other people.
I still tend to take 'should not be' as a challange to find a way to use it as a story element that I would care for.
Sometimes something that starts out intended to be very bad, like Sosuke Sagara with the tastes and some of the habits of Hansel and Gretal from Black Lagoon, and Pathan sexual mores, turns out much better than the sister ideas after enough modification.
The use of cross-overs would also seem to preclude single canon probable abominations like 'Azula is the Avatar, and no less psycho than canon'.
In my pedentry, I guess I overlook that the purpose is not perfect taxonomy, but tossing ideas around, having fun, and seeing if anyone gets excited enough to execute one.
I like Beast Wars much more than I dislike Beast Machines.
Speaking of Ragnarok, take Ragnarok (the manhwa, as in Ragnarok Online), Detective Loki, OMG, Nanoha (because Signum has the sword which burns the world), and maybe a Bolo (because Case Ragnarok), and watch either the bodies(should not be) or the friendship(should be) hit the floor.