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1. Jack/Giles fic is off for betaing. I cannot describe how chuffed I am at finally having written something long enough to get beta'd again! I expect it'll still need a lot of work, but I'm up for the challenge! :-)
2. To finish off this fic, I seriously need to re-watch Children of Earth and to that end I've just finished my re-watch of TW S2. Which, I have to admit, was a lot better than I remembered. I went into most episodes feeling very ambivalent about them, but came out of the most of them having really enjoyed them.
Especially Exit Wounds, which is one of the few I *have* re-watched since its original airing, but I don't remember enjoying it so much. Maybe I'm more receptive at the moment because I'm still not feeling very well and so I'm pretty dopey. I don't know, but I did enjoy it. All right, far too much unnecessary death and destruction - and I hate it that they blow up half of Cardiff, show Gwen inspiring the police force into action and then forget about it all because they're too busy saving the nuclear power station from meltdown. I mean, that's one hell of a clean-up operation! It's just too big for me - another of those things in the DW-verse that affects too many people, that means it's not *my* world that these stories are set in any more.
But anyway. I thought Gwen was brilliant, and I adored Rhys watching her and supporting her. He's lovely. And he's definitely got involved a lot more the last couple of episodes, in preparation for practically becoming a member of TW in CoE. I loved Andy too. It was great to have some comedy relief in the midst of all that doom and gloom.
Tosh and Owen made me cry this time around.
I thought John's part was written very well. Now that I know he's being co-erced by Gray (although of course a less selfish being than John would have sacrificed himself to save the city and Jack, whom he professes to love), it's easy to see in James Masters' performance. If John was doing all that off his own bat, he'd be laughing and gleeful, wouldn't he? Cocky and bragging about how clever he was and cooing at all the destruction. And he does put on a bit of a show for Jack, but then he goes all quiet and it's obvious that he's not enjoying it, especially the blowing up the city part.
Oh! I also like Ianto a lot more towards the end of the season. He was very smug and annoying for most of it, but he was sweet to Gwen in Adrift and much more likeable in the last two episodes.
Anyway. It was good, and I think I'm ready now to re-watch Children of Earth. Won't be tomorrow, because I've got rehearsal in the evening, but hopefully I'll get it in this week, and then still have time to rewatch DW S5 before Christmas. :-)
If anyone's interested, my original reaction post to Exit Wounds is here
2. To finish off this fic, I seriously need to re-watch Children of Earth and to that end I've just finished my re-watch of TW S2. Which, I have to admit, was a lot better than I remembered. I went into most episodes feeling very ambivalent about them, but came out of the most of them having really enjoyed them.
Especially Exit Wounds, which is one of the few I *have* re-watched since its original airing, but I don't remember enjoying it so much. Maybe I'm more receptive at the moment because I'm still not feeling very well and so I'm pretty dopey. I don't know, but I did enjoy it. All right, far too much unnecessary death and destruction - and I hate it that they blow up half of Cardiff, show Gwen inspiring the police force into action and then forget about it all because they're too busy saving the nuclear power station from meltdown. I mean, that's one hell of a clean-up operation! It's just too big for me - another of those things in the DW-verse that affects too many people, that means it's not *my* world that these stories are set in any more.
But anyway. I thought Gwen was brilliant, and I adored Rhys watching her and supporting her. He's lovely. And he's definitely got involved a lot more the last couple of episodes, in preparation for practically becoming a member of TW in CoE. I loved Andy too. It was great to have some comedy relief in the midst of all that doom and gloom.
Tosh and Owen made me cry this time around.
I thought John's part was written very well. Now that I know he's being co-erced by Gray (although of course a less selfish being than John would have sacrificed himself to save the city and Jack, whom he professes to love), it's easy to see in James Masters' performance. If John was doing all that off his own bat, he'd be laughing and gleeful, wouldn't he? Cocky and bragging about how clever he was and cooing at all the destruction. And he does put on a bit of a show for Jack, but then he goes all quiet and it's obvious that he's not enjoying it, especially the blowing up the city part.
Oh! I also like Ianto a lot more towards the end of the season. He was very smug and annoying for most of it, but he was sweet to Gwen in Adrift and much more likeable in the last two episodes.
Anyway. It was good, and I think I'm ready now to re-watch Children of Earth. Won't be tomorrow, because I've got rehearsal in the evening, but hopefully I'll get it in this week, and then still have time to rewatch DW S5 before Christmas. :-)
If anyone's interested, my original reaction post to Exit Wounds is here
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I can't wait. :)
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You and your beta might need to beat it up a little until you're happy with it, but I know it won't be junk.
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Anyway, I've no doubt Alex will tell me nicely if it is. :-) And I'm definitely expecting to have to do a lot more work on it!
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I'm sure she will! She really helped me with one scene in particular of my TW Big Bang and I enjoyed working with her (using a beta is still pretty much a new thing for me).
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(Even if she does make me work really, really hard. *g*)
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I loved Exit wounds, (Okay, I cried because of Tosh and Owen. They were some of my favorite chars) But I think I loved it, weeeeell.. ONLY because of the interaction between Jack and John then. But then again, I do LOVE that pairing. Had I been better at Jack, I would have wrote a bit, but I am horrible at Jack, and only half decent with John-
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And yeah, I would expect you to like Exit Wounds because it has John in it! :-)
I would love to see you write Jack at some point. You have a lot of strong ideas about him and I'd love to see that come out in writing.
and only half decent with John
What are you talking about??? You write John brilliantly! There's nothing 'half-decent' about it!
(Sorry, I'm not AIMing tonight. Feeling bloody awful and going to watch some more CoE now.)
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