Pros fic

[mab_browne]

Bodie and Doyle, no overt slash, pgish for language and theme, 1,300 words approx. Tag for Stakeout.

This is not songfic because we all know that songfic is cheesy and wrong, but if there was a soundtrack to this story it would certainly be 'Put Out the Lights' by Oysterband.

Comments

[byslantedlight]

Ah... very nice. Stakeout always does seem as if there should be more to it afterwards, considering the literal fallout if it had all gone wrong - the "nightmare of blacked-out dark, confused cries, sirens, a glow of fire in the distance, the gentle rain of poison"... Eeeh. Brings back my schooldays, that does - no one ever seems to think about it any more, though the threat is still around, even half-came true at Chernobyl... (Fic to ramble to this, apparently!) Love that Bodie's just there for Doyle though, and that actually they're there for each other... Thank you!

[mab_browne]

Yeah, it's the usual macho, jokey thing at the end of the ep, although I did like that Gordon Jackson made Cowley almost a little hyper in his congrats of the lads. And why not? *g*

Do you remember that cheerful tv film called 'Threads'? God, I can still vividly remember scenes from that twenty-five years later.

[byslantedlight]

Yes! Which absolutely fascinated me! And we kept hearing about Where the Wind Blows, but I didn't get to see that 'til I was over here... (and then it was much too cutesy, although that had its own chill obviously)... And books like Z for Zacariah, and - oh, there was an Aussie one actually, where a bunch of kids had gone up camping in the hills one weekend, and while they were doing that and cut off from everyone, there was some huge nuclear (I think) disaster, and everyone effectively vanished or was on massive alert etc, and they were trying to figure out what was going on. I was trying to remember that for eldritchhobbit's post-apocalypse Young Adult fic list, and I couldn't at all. I think it was written by a bloke, and it was a fairly mixed bunch of kids for various reasons, but... Do you have any idea?! Oh, and did you ever read a book about Adamouse and Evamouse, who survived the nuclear war that destroyed the world, and went on to breed a race of mutated intelligent mice that found an old set of Encyclopaedia Britannica and learned

[mab_browne]

I read When the Wind Blows, as it was originally a comic book. (I love Raymond Briggs - bought Fungus the Bogeyman for myself in my twenties...) It made me cry - for lo, I am soppy. *g*

[msmoat]

Oh, this is very nice. I like the moodiness of it--which suits the episode very well. And the closeness that comes from simply surviving. And the understanding between them.

But I think my favorite couple of lines was this aside: "That's right. Live to be your bloody chauffeur, I do. Imposing on my good nature." Bodie sighed for the wickedness of the world, and the wickedness of one Raymond Doyle in particular.

Heh. Yeah.*g* Thank you!

[mab_browne]

the closeness that comes from simply surviving

Exactly. Thanks for the fb, much appreciated. :-)

[snailbones]

Such a good tidy up of a messy ending, thank you; it always feels as though there should have been more, and this is just perfect.

My favourite line is: Not a deodorant in all the United Kingdom could stop a man stinking after he disarmed an atom bomb, although, Doyle thought with mordant humour, he'd certainly endorse one that could. I can just imagine Doyle's gallows humour at that point of the night.

Very nice, ta muchly.

[mab_browne]

I did like the deodorant line myself - because jeepers, yes, in RL those lads would have gone home to a shower to the great relief of anyone within several feet of them...*g* It's a terribly silly episode really - but it has so much lovely stuff in it from a lads pov.

[callistosh65]

What a beautifully observed moment there in Doyle's flat. Loved the quiet sense of coming down form all that adrenaline and fear, and as usual, you hit their voices and characters perfectly.
It approached suspiciously but permitted Bodie's hand to touch, a couple of firm swipes across its back before it scampered away in search of mice, or a dustbin with a lid askew.

"Silly little bugger," Bodie said as it left. "Got your keys out, then?" This detail, almost throwaway, is just perfect.

[mab_browne]

The cat is sort of a feature of the song that inspired the fic, actually. There's a line, 'keep the creatures safe from harm' - and there you are. *g* Thanks. :-)