Well, Toys is awake is probably going to start his own comment round soon, but first, me!
I'm generally relieved you liked this chapter - I'd been starting to worry we'd been getting a little too bogged down in long conversations and original characters past the point of reader patience. We're still new enough at this where failed execution is a major worry, and that's a little stress-making, since we have some really boss plot stuff planned that I'm itching to get to. The exciting parts are coming soon, we swear it!
But first, yes, you called it - life lessons. It's become kind of a contiuting theme.
Also, "scuttled"? I dunno....cockroaches scuttle. Scuttling seems kinda....exoskeletal.
Okay, that made me laugh out loud this morning. New verb then - scampered? Something cute, and hee-hee-hee-ish...
I really liked the whole Xander/Dawn conversation, but this especially -- showing that Buffy's bad-boy thing isn't just the darkness of the Slayer, &c &c.
Hee. The funny part is, the fellow we're referring to here is the guy from the Buffy movie, which is indeed after she became the Slayer, so Dawn is technically wrong. (I'd written a little bit about Dawn's memories regarding Buffy's early Slayer career in a deleted scene that we'll probably use later - stay tuned.) So you could read Buffy's whole drawn-to-darknness thing pretty much either way. Heh.
OK, the whole scene was nice. But this? LOVED this bit. Ghod that was funny. And that's how it IS, too.
All thanks on this one go to Toys. For a fun little easter egg, see if you can note any similarity between this speech and Spike's one about getting his soul back, back in the underworld.
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Date: 2004-06-27 03:42 pm (UTC)I'm generally relieved you liked this chapter - I'd been starting to worry we'd been getting a little too bogged down in long conversations and original characters past the point of reader patience. We're still new enough at this where failed execution is a major worry, and that's a little stress-making, since we have some really boss plot stuff planned that I'm itching to get to. The exciting parts are coming soon, we swear it!
But first, yes, you called it - life lessons. It's become kind of a contiuting theme.
Also, "scuttled"? I dunno....cockroaches scuttle. Scuttling seems kinda....exoskeletal.
Okay, that made me laugh out loud this morning. New verb then - scampered? Something cute, and hee-hee-hee-ish...
I really liked the whole Xander/Dawn conversation, but this especially -- showing that Buffy's bad-boy thing isn't just the darkness of the Slayer, &c &c.
Hee. The funny part is, the fellow we're referring to here is the guy from the Buffy movie, which is indeed after she became the Slayer, so Dawn is technically wrong. (I'd written a little bit about Dawn's memories regarding Buffy's early Slayer career in a deleted scene that we'll probably use later - stay tuned.) So you could read Buffy's whole drawn-to-darknness thing pretty much either way. Heh.
OK, the whole scene was nice. But this? LOVED this bit. Ghod that was funny. And that's how it IS, too.
All thanks on this one go to Toys. For a fun little easter egg, see if you can note any similarity between this speech and Spike's one about getting his soul back, back in the underworld.
We do love us our continuity porn...