I think of dark AUs negatively because none of them ever get anything right. All of the characters don't feel like the characters, they make the stupidest choices possible just so the story can keep going on, they always die from stuff they wouldn't die from mostly being crashes, many times the plot and disaster make no sense at all. I don't care about the scars and stuff, it's just boring asf to see the engines always being so beaten up for no reason other than shock value. The only AUs that I enjoy that are actually good are Crane's AUs because he can actually write the characters and make the plot make sense.
