I honestly can't think of anything to say beyond the fact this is fascinating. I know it's long been a tradition in fanfic circles to take "fascinating", "interesting", or other such words as insults, but I mean it as a compliment. This is interesting, it's unusual, and it's intriguing. The only reference I didn't get was the one from 1943, because I haven't seen/read that work, although perhaps I need to watch a little more Father Brown than I have. Bates deciding to give that particular train a miss gave me a little thrill, though; always beware of Giles if you're trying to remain inconspicuous.
Truthfully? I selected all the scenes - except the last back in Sunnydale - because they’re favorites of my wife and I wanted to give her a treat. (She watched Where Eagles Dare again, and one of the Father Brown mysteries, today.) With such an eclectic/haphazard selection, I knew there would be lots of readers who didn’t get every single one. It’s the price for making such a choice.
Yes, in this particular instance Bates’s situational analysis was better than Giles’s, in that the former made a decision based on his having been seen, where the latter finished his journey convinced he had remained unnoticed or at least unremembered. It’s the major bugbear of time travel: you never know what might make a difference.
(Your userpic made me smile; the High Chapparal was another of my wife’s old-time favorites, and I could have easily made that setting one of Giles’s locales … but 1] I didn’t think of it, and 2] Tombstone would always be her first choice when it comes to Westerns.)
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Yes, in this particular instance Bates’s situational analysis was better than Giles’s, in that the former made a decision based on his having been seen, where the latter finished his journey convinced he had remained unnoticed or at least unremembered. It’s the major bugbear of time travel: you never know what might make a difference.
(Your userpic made me smile; the High Chapparal was another of my wife’s old-time favorites, and I could have easily made that setting one of Giles’s locales … but 1] I didn’t think of it, and 2] Tombstone would always be her first choice when it comes to Westerns.)
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