My eyes!

[innocent_lex]

LJ has a lot to answer for. After randomly clicking on links to other links to other links and reading various random people's LJ posts as I go, I was just hit with David Cameron / Nick Clegg RPS. For realz. I'd heard tell it existed, but it's like goatse - you just don't google it without wearing full CBW preventative gear and preferably being high as a kite so you can convince yourself afterwards you were hallucinating.

It's possible I'll never recover.

Comments

[sg1scribe.livejournal.com]

You make a very interesting point. I'd never thought of Young Victoria being RPF, but you're right, in a sense it is. I was going to say maybe that is OK because it is history, but then there are all those docudramas aboout Princess Di that one could argue are history but some of the key people are still alive and so there's another grey area.

Hmmmm... I think I will join you on the twisty brain thing (and also the ewwwwww Cameron/Clegg! That opened the door to a gallery of images I would prefer to not have in my head!)

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

And then we get into even weirder headspace with films like the one about the 9/11 plane that crashed into a field, which was incredibly disturbing even as a concept (I haven't watched it) - why would anyone make such a film? That's almost pure fiction with real people's names in there.

So a lot of these films / books are trying to be realistic. Some of them are trying to be sensationalist. And some of them (such as DW) don't bother to concern themselves with any kind of historical accuracy, just dive headlong into AU worlds.