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Measure of a Man (the Thoughts and Actions Remix) by beatrice_otter

Apr 20, 2010 07:46

Title: Measure of a Man (the Thoughts and Actions Remix)
Author: beatrice_otter
Summary: Human or Cylon, we all make choices. Then we have to live with them.
Characters: Bill Adama, Sam Anders, Sharon Agathon
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,292
Warnings: none
Title of original story: To Think Oneself A Man by lizardbeth-j
Beta Thanks: sci_fi_shipper made ( Read more... )

Comments 17

scifishipper April 20 2010, 12:48:04 UTC

Wow. This is a powerful piece. I really like it a lot. Using the Montclair painting to represent the evil!cylons, and Bill's struggle against the idea of it, is wonderful. And poor Sam. What a thing to discover. Bill, pragmatic and sure, does the right thing here. I enjoyed it!

beatrice_otter May 1 2010, 02:50:24 UTC

Thank you!

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beatrice_otter May 1 2010, 02:50:54 UTC

Thank you!

sunshine_queen April 20 2010, 16:24:49 UTC

I really liked the way Bill considered Sam's actions so thoroughly here, and poor Sam's hesitant confession and all of Bill's memories- especially this line:

filled with black suits and black dresses and black tattoos

Very well done!

beatrice_otter May 1 2010, 02:51:36 UTC

Thank you! (I kinda wish the show had done this, but. Oh, well.)

lizardbeth_j April 20 2010, 16:39:49 UTC

oh, excellent! The POV switch really works for this one, so we can see Adama's thinking and reasoning. How Cylons really are formative in his history, their development sort of tracking his own, and then how Sharon's choice blurs the lines between the Machine!Cylons and the far more human versions. I like how you added in the idea of Sam-as-hostage to Adama's tentative trust (which honestly never occurred to me back then, but certainly Revelations makes completely obvious). . But you certainly took what was mostly a wishful thinking AU of mine and made it more plausible, and that's no easy task.

*thumbs up*

beatrice_otter May 1 2010, 02:54:23 UTC

Thank you! I do kinda wish the series had gone this way, but. Oh, well. I owe many thanks to my beta, sci_fi_shipper, who figured out how to fix the structural problems so that everything actually makes sense.

beatrice_otter May 1 2010, 14:56:20 UTC

Hey, I'm uploading this to AO3, let me know when the original is up so I can link the two properly.

lizardbeth_j May 2 2010, 07:23:08 UTC

oh, yes, I never did get back to uploading my backlog. oops.

Here you go: http://archiveofourown.org/works/83893

scifiaddict86 April 20 2010, 19:34:27 UTC

I really like this its a good character piece. I like the Caprica callbacks

beatrice_otter May 1 2010, 02:54:50 UTC

Thank you!