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Fic: Lovers - R/L - PG-13 - AU

Sep 05, 2006 02:11

Title: Lovers ( Read more... )

Comments 8

roadstergal September 5 2006, 01:58:43 UTC

I don't know what it is about The Inquisitor - it's a nifty idea, and all - but the entire epsiode (well, except for the comic and the 'give ya fifteen') just leaves me meh. Pity, because I adore V otherwise.

That's nonetheless a chilling look at alternates, isn't it? Grant and Naylor seemed a bit cavalier about it sometimes (actually, judging from the books, maybe it was just Grant?), but there are some pretty horrid ramifications to it all. Ach. And you pulled them out to look at. Somehow, this... erasure from existence that the other Lister and Kryten suffer is worse than dying.

How could anyone ever look adoringly, even lustily at Rimmer with a cleft in his chin like that? How could those too-full lips tell a hologram they loved him?

*sigh* :(

Very nice look at The Adventures of Rimmer and Lister's Sperm-In-Law. I wonder if Rimmer retains ghosts of memories of it?

Yeah, that Lister was sent back in time to steal shotguns, wasn't he? :p

kahvi September 5 2006, 02:37:13 UTC

I just figured that an alternate Lister might have managed to get over himself and work things out with Rimmer. Of course, the alternates are not nessecarily better than those they replace. It is never delved into in the episode, but from what I understood, the Inquisitor merely gave "another sperm" as it were, a chance. The point was not that the replacement was better, but that the original had failed, and should be punished for that ( ... )

day221b September 5 2006, 21:58:47 UTC

Wow! What a unique perspective! I really like this. :D

kahvi September 5 2006, 23:05:16 UTC

Thank you!

squiggle_bat September 7 2006, 12:24:56 UTC

This was really interesting - I'd never thought about how the alternate Lister may have interacted with Rimmer. The bed sequence is really sweet :)

kahvi September 8 2006, 02:04:41 UTC

Thank you. :)
Yeah, as I said above, it was one of the first things that came to my mind when viewing the episode from a R/L perspective. One of the things this Lister would be able to do better, after all, would be his relationship with Rimmer.

zekkass September 8 2006, 02:50:41 UTC

I. I'm not sure if I'm creeped out or sweetened out. Poor Rimmer, and poor Lister. (Both of them.) Beautiful job, as always. ;)

kahvi September 8 2006, 21:45:01 UTC

Yeah, it's not a pleasant subject. But it is one that has nagged me for a while. Glad you liked it, thanks for feeding back. :)