FanFic in Da House ...

[dodger_winslow]

Okay. So here's the deal. I'd love to blame this fanfic to Person of Interest winning the People's Choice award for Best New TV Show so as to make myself look all prescient and shit, but the simple truth is, this bitch has been torturing me night and day since Number's Crunch aired. It's gone from 23 pages, down to 9 pages, up to 18 pages, and

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[dolimir_k]

I'm not familiar with the show, other than knowing who the characters are due to commercials. But I love your writing (as always). Maybe I should give the show a chance?

[dodger_winslow]

Oh, you should SO give this show a chance, D. It is fantabulous. Between Person of Interest, American Horror Story, and Prime Suspect, I haven't been this happy with TV since Deadwood. And to put the cherry on top, Amy Berg (showrunner on Eureka, and the writer who made Leverage work when it still worked) is joining the writing team now. It gets any better than this and I might not be able to take it. :)

[dejla]

Very interesting!

I'm not sure we see the episode the same way, but I enjoy the spycraft and I love the way you take us into John's POV. (Edited to try and make my brain talk correctly.) I enjoyed this because it made me think and think very hard.

The spycraft bits are beautifully written.

[dodger_winslow]

Thanks so much. We may actually see the episode more similarly than you imagine. I was fanficcing this more as a response to things I saw in the episode that I wanted to play with than because I necessarily think the show was fronting most of the things I grabbed and shook just to see how they'd rattle. Can't tell you how many times I've nearly walked away from this one. And it was actually you that sparked up my drive to finish it. After rolling around in the muscularity of your prose the other day, I was inspired to boot up and start pulling weeds just to see if there was anything in there worth saving. By the time I was done, I'd yanked out more than 2/3 of what I originally wrote. It was only then that I started to see something that begged to be finished rather than begging to be file thirteened

[dejla]

It was a good call, and even backed up by canon! I was wondering myself why the sniper was such a bad shot, and of course the simple solution did not make it into my brain.

The last sequence in that episode (especially the music, which I promptly Googled, found and bought) is so cinematically perfect. The lighting, the actors, the filming--all of it is beautifully done.

Reading the first section of your story is so much like reading Adam Hall at his best. Definite kudos to you.

[dodger_winslow]

Kind words indeed. Thank you for the comparison. And I couldn't agree with you more about the cinematic made-of-win of that last sequence. It was, without overstating it in the slightest, perfect.

What is the name of the song? I, too, loved it and wouldn't mind adding it to the iTunes bank if you don't mind sharing the fruits of your GoogleFu.

[cxw1065]

my fave line

"with the gimping half-run of a broken toy with rust for joints"

how you've captured them......brava!!

I suppose my expectation is that Finch will be more unforgiving than Reese, but your take is intriguing

and they way you write their relationship-- lovely

MoAR please ;-)

[dodger_winslow]

Thanks! I did a little presupposing on undefined bits of canon to find a foundation for Reese's perspective in this one, musing on the potentials of what really happened to Kara, and what Snow's participation in her demise might have been, put me on the road to thinking some of the same things that hit me hardest in my initial viewing of the episode, foremost amongst those being the difference between Reese's predominantly "can't hold it against her" stance on Carter's culpability for her actions as conveyed by his stairwell "Yeah, well, they're clever like that" juxtaposed against that sneering lip curl Caveziel laid on her in the car

[dodger_winslow]

Thank you. I love the bits and pieces they've given us about Finch and Nathan's backstory, and it spoke to me that whatever happened to Nathan, Finch does seem to bear some extraordinary guilt over it. So this story really started coming together for me when I started poking at the idea that it might be Finch who could more intimately relate to having done something he thought, at the time, was the right thing to do only to find out later that he'd been manipulated into betraying a man who was his closest friend.

This story spent a great deal of time hovering over the idea that it was Reese who would be able to best relate to "I've done bad things, thinking they were right at the time I did them," and it wasn't going anywhere. But once I flipped that perspective to Finch and ran Reese a little more hardline in his capacity to empathize with Carter's situation? That's when the story started talking to me.

[dodger_winslow]

Thanks so much for the feedback