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The Paradox

Jan 13, 2008 21:43

The Paradox

Summary: Charlie chases a Scottish man through the rainy streets of London, which leads him to a fateful meeting in an antique shop. Written for the
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janie_tangerine January 14 2008, 21:09:22 UTC

Talk about unconventional pairings! This was awesome, though. Perfect Charlie as usual and nice and veery interesting twist on the parallel worlds/whatever-I-should-call-it, if Charlie came back like this I'd totally love it! And it wouldn't even be too impossible, seeing what happens on the show... ;) and Mrs Hawking was actually somewhat likable while in that episode I sincerely wanted to slap her or something, so good job on her too.. I hope you pop up more frequently ;)

falafel_fiction January 14 2008, 21:37:55 UTC

Hehe. I was worried people might think I was writing Charlie/Mrs Hawking slash! Now that would be out there. But no, nothing sexual. Unless you count Hawking mindfucking Charlie!

Mrs Hawking is interesting to write cos one moment she is a cold-hearted bitch then she's a pleasant prissy old dear. She keeps switching!

No, it's not an impossible scenario all things considered (hopes for living Charlie against the odds...)

janie_tangerine January 14 2008, 21:49:23 UTC

Yeah, I hope. For all the Dark Tower references they throw in (I mean, beginning was funny, three seasons full of King references are wearing me out XD) they'd better do a GOOD use of it. *sincerely hopes*

Agreed on Mrs Hawking, though I'm still stuck on her doing that to poor Desmond. I sincerely don't care about fate, I care about him more! ;)

And well, mindfucking is a way I guess. Well, better Mrs Hawking than Benry, I guess, even if he's the mindfucking master..

falafel_fiction January 14 2008, 22:14:25 UTC

I've been reading the Dark Tower series recently. I'm up to 'The Waste Lands' and I've been very interested in the Jake!paradox resurrection. Seems like a strong possibility for a Charlie return, especially since Jake also died (drowning!) after a prophecy/sacrifice ordeal. Damon has said in interviews that Desmond and Charlie's meeting in London might have created a paradox. Personally I think the mysteries of Lost are gonna be very Towerish.

I sincerely don't care about fate, I care about him more!

Oh, you are preaching to the converted, sista! Screw fate for its merciless abuse of my dear Des and Charlie.

janie_tangerine January 14 2008, 22:22:57 UTC

Oh then you are at my favorite book of the whole series! Fact is, King is my guilty pleasure and the DT is the guiltiest of all the pleasures I got from King. And I guess one of the reasons fro which I loved S1 Charlie to pieces was that they made some Eddie references with his character (the drugs in the plane's toilet anyone..?) and Eddie is hands down my favorite King character ever. Probably ranks in my top 3 of general favorite characters. Thing is, I didn't like much how it ended and I hope Darlton is not going that way, but lots of people liked it so I won't say anything else ;) I sincerely hope for the paradox thing, the Jake/Charlie comparison fits a lot and seeing that the paradox may have been created there could be more than a chance. Let's hope ( ... )

falafel_fiction January 14 2008, 23:36:57 UTC

Eddie is my favourite too. He IS very Charlie-ish in his sarcastic humour and especially his backstory with his wankerish older brother getting him hooked on heroin, etc. Actually someone suggested that Charlie is like a blend of Eddie Dean and Larry Underwood from 'The Stand'. The druggie and the one-hit-wonder; screw ups with heroic depths(?)

I'm sooo not a fate fan. I'm a humanist and I felt like the ordeal that fate inflicted on Desmond/Charlie was just a cruel and unusual punishment. I don't see why fate needed to be so merciless and sadistic towards them. I just wanted Des/Charlie to win, you know? I wanted to see a triumph for 'the human story' that I feel has been slipping away from the show since S1.

janie_tangerine January 15 2008, 16:15:52 UTC

Yay another Eddie fan! I totally love him and yeah, I forgot about the brothers issue but that's a thing they have in common too. True also about Larry, who actually was my favorite in The Stand. Mh, didn't he use drugs too in the beginning? I may be wrong though, I read that book ages ago ;)

Amen, amen, amen. I so wanted them to win too, it's SO not fair. Oh, Darlton, undo the mess, won't you? *pleads* and that's true, S1 had really a more 'human' feeling. At least we got Des from S2/3 but I still miss 1.

falafel_fiction January 15 2008, 16:48:09 UTC

Yeah, I think Larry was a druggie too, but not a heroin addict. Like Charlie he also was famous for one song.

Amen, amen, amen. I so wanted them to win too, it's SO not fair. Oh, Darlton, undo the mess, won't you? *pleads* and that's true, S1 had really a more 'human' feeling. At least we got Des from S2/3 but I still miss 1. I think it's cos in S1 they had more human characters in the ensemble - the bickering young brother/sister, the strained father/son, the knocked up girl, Charlie and Hurley who were always inept everyman guys. But since then the human characters have slowly been written out or killed off and we are mostly left with the more hardened characters - the criminals, soldiers, hunters, hitmen, fugitives, etc. Hurley is the real only human character left now from the original cast. Claire too, but her character is barely a presence these days ( ... )

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