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Fic: Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before (Primeval, Drabble, PG-13)

Jan 27, 2009 19:22

Title: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before.
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Primeval.
Rating: PG-13 (mild swearing).
Characters: Helen Cutter; Nick Cutter.
Disclaimer: This pair belong to Impossible Pictures; I am just visiting.
Summary: Why is Helen so cryptic about her goals?
Word Count: 100 (drabble).
A/N: Spoilers to the end of Season One. I ( Read more... )

primeval, drabble

Comments 10

fredbassett January 27 2009, 19:50:29 UTC

Nope, I haven't seen this done in Primeval.

Nice drabble :)

prochytes January 28 2009, 08:41:10 UTC

Many thanks!

telperion_15 January 27 2009, 20:34:43 UTC

Ooh, interesting!

prochytes January 28 2009, 08:41:43 UTC

I am glad you thought so. Thank you for commenting!

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prochytes January 28 2009, 08:47:31 UTC

Yes, I think that this could work rather well at full length, much like a darker Groundhog Day,,Tru Calling, or an episode of Andromeda I saw once where Trance (who can process multiple possible futures) is desperately trying again and again to avert disaster but finding that each of her changes makes things differently worse. I doubt that I would get around to it any time soon, alas, but who knows...

Lovely icon, and thanks for commenting!

valderys January 29 2009, 00:47:59 UTC

Cool! Although I don't think much of Helen, if she's still failing after thirty seven attempts! :)

prochytes January 29 2009, 09:20:58 UTC

Thank you!

Although I don't think much of Helen, if she's still failing after thirty seven attempts! :)

In her defence, it would be easy to rack up the failures, especially if The Doom That Is To Come has deep roots or is very complicated. For example, she may have spent, say, eight tries engineering that a particular MP does not attain governmental office, only to discover that the power behind the throne was that MP's manipulative wife: when Helen finally succeeds in squelching that MP, she discovers that the wife simply attaches herself to a different one in this time-line and nothing else changes.

One of the things I liked about Tru Calling was how it exposed that just knowing a particular event is going to happen is not always terribly helpful, if you are just a lone woman without much in the way of political connexions or a power-base. Helen, of course, has advantages that Tru does not: she has more control over her variety of time-travel; she is *much* more ruthless; and she is significantly tougher (from those ranger ( ... )

<-Parker likes this rodlox March 21 2009, 01:22:05 UTC

haven't seen this elsewhere. but I like this - a lot.

*friends you*

Re: <-Parker likes this prochytes March 21 2009, 13:14:43 UTC

Many thanks! I have just reciprocated.

Re: <-Parker likes this rodlox March 21 2009, 16:00:40 UTC

thank you.