I consider the horror recasting fic to be a subset of another genre I don't get. Recasting any movie, play, or story with characters from another story and then railroading those characters into the same actions and dialog as the original cast. What's the point of writing a story that already exists, just with characters that look different? Especially in a written form of media instead of a visual one?
I can see doing this with humor and with allowing the characters to be themselves in this different setting, doing and saying different things. It's the ramming of the characters into actions and thought processes that don't make sense from them that becomes aggravating in short order.
The horror examples are especially egregious instances of this because a horror story usually involves characters who are essentially helpless against the evil they face. If you take a character who is far from helpless and make them act helpless, then the fact you are doing so becomes blatantly obvious.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.
I can see doing this with humor and with allowing the characters to be themselves in this different setting, doing and saying different things. It's the ramming of the characters into actions and thought processes that don't make sense from them that becomes aggravating in short order.
The horror examples are especially egregious instances of this because a horror story usually involves characters who are essentially helpless against the evil they face. If you take a character who is far from helpless and make them act helpless, then the fact you are doing so becomes blatantly obvious.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.