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Time Bombs on Fault Lines

Nov 15, 2009 17:28

[cue Obi-Wan voice] This is not the fic you are looking for... [/Obi-Wan] Hey, those of you who requested Fic or Treats, I haven't forgotten. All of your fics are in various stages of completion, so they are coming. This is just something else.

Title: Time Bombs on Fault Lines
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just borrowing.
Summary: He ( Read more... )

character: vincent boylan, character: cj lyndon, character: james matheson, fandom: girl number 9, rating: r, event: mini_nanowrimo

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aboutbunnies November 17 2009, 01:35:48 UTC

Thanks :)

And, fwiw, I found the actual ending absolutely unsatisfying, just bleak for the sake of "drama" or whatever, and found Matheson's death (and therefore Holly's kidnapping) completely pointless. Which maybe it was supposed to be pointless and that was probably a point that I just don't appreciate, but eh. Not that I'd have wanted Matheson to kill Boylan necessarily, but it was a resolution that I didn't feel we got, at all, in the actual series. (And to be completely honest, as a parent myself, killing Boylan is a much more satisfying resolution than orphaning one's kid again.)

*shrug* But to each their own. Thanks for reading!

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aboutbunnies November 18 2009, 05:08:23 UTC

Actually, I think killing Boylan is a no one wins situation - certainly not Matheson, for the reasons you stated, but not Boylan either (he's dead, for one - not sure how that's winning). But what he wanted was to make Matheson kill himself, so he doesn't win on that front, either. I never said I wrote this to be something I wanted to see on the series - if it was, I'd have called it a fix-it, not an alternate ending ;) But to me, it's more satisfying than the actual ending was. Lesser of two evils, or something like that.

I could have understood what Matheson did at the end - because I absolutely understand the willingness to do anything to save your child - if it had made any sense. But the moment Boylan said there was a situation in which he wouldn't kill Holly, to me, it became pretty obvious that he was never going to actually kill her. And I'm fairly certain Matheson was should have been smart enough to figure that one out. And instead he just gave up. That was disappointing ( ... )