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[greenygal]

God, but I hate museum tours.

No, I do not want to be told about the exhibits. I want to look at the exhibits (usually well supplied with explanations), at my own pace, without getting frustrated every time I want to look at something that isn't what the guide is talking about. Not to mention having to maneuver around the rest of the tour group to properly see whatever it is. And I particularly do not want a guide who's constantly pausing and repeating himself and who takes so long to get to the interesting bits of the story that by then I've stopped listening.

This has been a completely pointless rant.

(As an unrelated aside: I've just started reading MIDNIGHT NATION. Yes, miss_porcupine, you can gloat now.)

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[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

*does the comic pimp shuffle*

I need a feather boa, I think.

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[greenygal.livejournal.com]

I need a feather boa, I think.

Okay, but it's going to get caught in your spikes. :)

I'm about halfway through, and after seeing David's chat with the person who doesn't lie, I'm awfully curious to know where this is going...

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[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Oh, do let me know what you think of the finish, then. It ends as you thought it would, but not how you would expect it to. ;)

Seriously. I agreed over New Year's to try to fic this and I'm terrified of trying.

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[greenygal.livejournal.com]

Okay, I've finished it now, and...I have issues with the resolution, actually. Yes, the transforms from what we hear to what we end up seeing are pretty good--kind of a technicality in Laurel's case, but nobody ever said the literal truth was the meaningful truth, and in a case like this you sort of expect it. And it's downright artistic to change the absolute truth of David's prediction into what it turned out to be.

But...I just didn't come away feeling like what David did cost him that much, and I can't help but feel that that's a real problem, considering. If I were going to write fic--I'm not saying I will, I'm saying if :)--I think I'd write something further down the line that tried to play that up a bit more...

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[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

*nods* David lost his soul, but... doesn't seem too worse for wear for not having regained it. He saved the girl, found a mission, and got back to the 'real' world. Finding out the true cost of his actions might be where to go.

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[greenygal.livejournal.com]

There are other possibilities, of course--given the amount of off-screen time in the story, you could insert just about anything you liked during the journey, as long as it was properly weird and thematic. Crossovers, even. *imagines Due South/Midnight Nation and snickers* Laurel's backstory with the opposition. Laurel's backstory, period. And strictly from a dangler point of view, I still want to know what the hell the piece of mail was that Sarah sent David. :) But since that was my biggest problem with the story, it seems an obvious thing to work on.