Wishverse 1.09 - Part 1

[wiseheart]

Title: The Many Departures of Gwen Cooper
Author: Soledad

Fandom: Torchwood
Category: Heavy-duty Gwen bashing.
Rating: General, suitable for all.
Genre: A bit of action, for this part. Plus a great deal of irony.
Series: Wishverse.
Warning: repeated character death(s) in each chapter.
Timeframe: "Random Shoes". Major spoilers - at least in theory

Comments

[elanor12]

Oh how I've missed this! :D

[wiseheart]

I'm glad you still enjoy it! I hesitated for a long time before kicking the story in gear - it was a particularly painful episode to re-watch.

[tygerc]

Yay! I've missed this too and what a way to come back. =)

[wiseheart]

So, may I assume that you liked it? ;)

I was a bit worried about the POV, whether it came over naturally or not. But re-watching the episode made me so pissed that I couldn't stop getting meaner and meaner.

[tygerc]

No, this was good. I've read fics that have too much bashing, making them uncomfortable to read. No problems with this one. =)

[wiseheart]

Usually, I aim for subtlety - it is so much fun. But CoE and everything that happened afterwards made me so angry I was afraid I might have lost the right measure. I'm glad to hear that it isn't so. :)

[jsks]

welcome back.

[wiseheart]

Thanks. It's good to be back. I've almost given up on the whole series - the thought of having to re-watch the actual episode was too frightening. It bored me to death the first time already, and I absolutely hated Eugene.

[wanda1969]

Love it! And so glad and overjoyed to see it back!
I know what you mean, though. It's hard not to get disillusioned after CoE and the subsequent in-fighting about RTD/Ianto's pointless death/Gwen being the only (Useless) team member left on Earth. In fact, reading this has given me the urge to carry on...

[wiseheart]

I'm glad to hear it. :)

Long live fanfic, right? It's always been much better than the original episode plots, not to mention the characterization. It's so easy to write Torchwood fic, since continuity is practically nonexistent, and we can pick out what we like and ignore the rest. ;)

I'm currently working on 2 different stories, set in 2 different crossover universes, plus the Wishverse, and I barely need to contradict myself. It's really cool.

[artemis10002000]

I really shouldn't be so happy that the bus driver strike annoyed you, but I'm really, really happy that you're back in the business of bashing Gwen :D I'd almost forgotten how much fun it is!

You may be a secret agent or whatnot, but you aren’t immortal, you know… and neither are we!”
Hahaha, that made me break out in giggles as well!

I'd been so looking forward to you re-writing this episodes, since I figured I'd enjoy your version more than the original, and it looks like I was right XD

[wiseheart]

I think the main problem - aside from the overdone Gwen-explosure - was that Eugene was so terribly uninteressant, and the whole episode was about him and Gwen.