Imagine someone younger who only knows
#ChipNDaleRescueRangers through the movie. Or maybe a Generation-X-er who has seen the movie, who remembers the theme song more or less vaguely, but who otherwise doesn't know a bit about the #
RescueRangers because they've largely forgotten the show.
Now imagine them stumbling upon
#CDRR #
FanFiction from the 1990s or early 2000s. The classics when #
Fanfic writers took the show's premise, freed it from Disney's restrictions and cranked to to over 9,000 while still technically playing it straight. Written during the heyday of dark fics, actually.
On the one hand, I guess they'd be deeply disturbed by that "Let's see if this case isn't too big" attitude, not to mention all shipping being straight (unless it's Meghan Brunner's
Mooncrystal series they discover).
On the other hand, they wouldn't understand a thing.
CDRR fanfic requires extensive knowledge of the show. Even
Rhyme & Reason does. Being the very first
CDRR fanfic, it lacks influence from other
CDRR fics and tropes that became commonplace later like certain one-shots becoming main characters. But even if it has dozens of footnotes that tell the reader what's being referenced, the reader still has to know the referenced episode.
Later fics may be less intense (I'm not saying they are), but more confusing. Like, all of a sudden, there's a character named #
Foxglove. She's being mentioned before she's being described as a bat. And she may come over as a badly introduced OC if you don't know that she's from the show and the number one most popular one-shot character. I think there are more fics with her than without her.
Won't be easy, considering the show's forever departure from North American free TV will be 30 years ago next month, and even many people from my generation haven't had a chance to see it ever since.
