Double Vision (Professionals story)
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| The Professionals Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Double Vision |
| Author(s): | Pamela Rose |
| Date(s): | 1991 or before |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| External Links: | on the Circuit Archive; on AO3 |
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Double Vision is a Professionals circuit 91-page story by Pamela Rose. It is a same-actor crossover with the movie Who Dares Wins.
At the top of the title page: "(for Linda B.)."
Reactions and Reviews
1990
Her DOUBLE VISION is probably one of the best "B&D meet Peter Skellen" stories I've ever read. Talk about intriguing triangles.[1]
1991
I am 100% opposed to bringing in anything like the actors' characteristics or real-world accomplishments into the fan-fiction (of ANY fandom. I didn't like Dr. Who running into Tom Baker at a con or Paul changing places with Avon or Shatner meets Kirk). I think this is treading on very tenuous ground because you will always get someone who will whine "How could you hurt/make fun of Martin, Lewis, Paul, Scott, stories for me (though, thankfully, we don't see it very much) because those stories tend to get sophomoric at best — smarmy or cloying at the least. That's not to say I have anything against, say, a Pros/New Avengers cross. Or the Pam Rose story "Double Vision", which brings in Skellen from "Final Option". That comes under cross-universe and, in that case, the universes mix.[2]
I haven't read many stories that have a mirror universe Bodie tend to make him rougher and tougher —which I have no objection to, by the way. This goes for most mirror stories, going back at least to the relevant Star Trek episodes — our people are always the good guys. But I was interested to read Double Vision by Pamela Rose, which was a cross-over between Profs and Collins' Who Dares Wins movie. In it, Bodie sees Peter Skellen as a good guy, as what Bodie would have been if he hadn't run off to Africa and become a mercenary etc. An interesting twist to the usual mirror character. Bodie feels that he isn't good enough (literally) for the ex-cop and moralist Doyle, which was a good point. (The dream scene with the grenades was gloriously, powerfully written; by the way. And I loved that Skellen's wife was a V, slash nut!) Pamela's story really made me quite fond of the movie after all. [3]
References
- ^ from a fan in Short Circuit #3 (October 1990)
- ^ from a fan in Cold Fish and Stale Chips #9
- ^ from Short Circuit #5 (January 1991)