This just keeps getting better and better! But my heart aches for poor Alex, especially in this chapter. He's just so innocent and vulnerable. And the scar on the soul! That totally sucks for Xander.
Sir Wanks-A-Lot! Bwahaha! And Spike using Star Trek as a means of explaining "reality" was just delightful. I love this fic!
It's going to get uglyxxmagexJuly 27 2007, 01:23:43 UTC
Great story
Mind you Buffy and company has come as royal.... well you get the idea. Playing God and deciding to tell the normal people when they absolutely have to. I tremble at the long term fallout from their scheme. The worst case result, even if the spell works.....
I have to agree with jpublic. In fact...man, I feel like a heel for saying this...the one criticism, that I've never really voiced, because in the end I really do like and respect you, Liz, at least I hope you know that, but as a fanfiction writer, your greatest weakness is that you make a great newspaper reporter. There are times you show us action...and then there are times when you bring the story to a halt and bring us the Dread Chapter(s) Exposition. Your Africander story, with the Watcher-cum-Slayer and her first-person-view, is a lot like this one: Nominally new character in introduced, is somehow involved in the world of the Scoobies, gets roped into it more directly by circumstances completely out of his/her control, and the whole time there's gobs of behind-the-scenes information that he/she doesn't know, but somebody else does. We the audience don't know it, either, but instead of learning it along with the POV character as they learn or discover it for themselves, eventually the POV character is sat down somewhere by
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In some cases, I'd agree with both your criticism. But in the case of this particular story, I don't.
Because it made sense from a character standpoint.
And it's time to at least partially pay off the whole thing for the readers.
Lemme explain:
I've just gone through 100 pages (yes, 100 pages have posted - the story itself is roughtly 155 to 175 pages - to give you an idea just how short this really is) with people demanding to know what's going on. I've had people insisting that somehow Xander was "forced" into this role, and not even willing to consider that maybe there are reasons that Xander would actually do it of his own free will. I've had people insisting that they want to know the full story now. I've had people insisting that the story does not make any sense at all.
This has been the majority, by the way.
Hell, I still have people insisting (after all that information up there in this very post) that somehow Xander was "forced" into this without any regard to his feelings at all. Seriously
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Sir Wanks-A-Lot! Bwahaha! And Spike using Star Trek as a means of explaining "reality" was just delightful. I love this fic!
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Mind you Buffy and company has come as royal.... well you get the idea. Playing God and deciding to tell the normal people when they absolutely have to. I tremble at the long term fallout from their scheme. The worst case result, even if the spell works.....
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Very unhappy with *all* of this. Xander!!
*pets him*
I'm glad he was pissed. I hope he's not terribly scarred. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
*pets Spike*
He's doing very well, really.
Arg. Grrrrrrr.
*stomps feet in little circles*
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Because it made sense from a character standpoint.
And it's time to at least partially pay off the whole thing for the readers.
Lemme explain:
I've just gone through 100 pages (yes, 100 pages have posted - the story itself is roughtly 155 to 175 pages - to give you an idea just how short this really is) with people demanding to know what's going on. I've had people insisting that somehow Xander was "forced" into this role, and not even willing to consider that maybe there are reasons that Xander would actually do it of his own free will. I've had people insisting that they want to know the full story now. I've had people insisting that the story does not make any sense at all.
This has been the majority, by the way.
Hell, I still have people insisting (after all that information up there in this very post) that somehow Xander was "forced" into this without any regard to his feelings at all. Seriously ( ... )
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