I do feel that it's somewhat impolite to have an extended, off-topic, conversation in someone else's LJ - especially if the host isn't involved. One could probably move that to private email or one's own LJ... That said, I'm something of an impolite man, and I violate this bit of etiquette with some regularity.
GF
I'm not a slathering fangirl, but I'm also not huge on IWRY. It has a few good scenes, and some decent concepts. But not much follow through, considering it should be a big deal. And the sadness that basically - it's the happiest most content moment of Buffy's life and she doesn't remember it. There are some positive things, in retrospect as series' progressed. But at base, Morah is lame, and the Oracles suck and they should never have been introduced. Generally, presence of the Oracles in a fic is a sign of badness ensuing...
JW
I don't hate Whedon, but I do find him disappointing for his tendency to bite off bigger chunks of story than he could chew and for how he delegated story. Exhibit A being BtVS-7 which really failed to deliver on what was a decent concept. Because I work for the Navy, and when the boat sinks you blame the captain. And S7 was Joss' ship, and it sank. Hard.
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I do feel that it's somewhat impolite to have an extended, off-topic, conversation in someone else's LJ - especially if the host isn't involved. One could probably move that to private email or one's own LJ... That said, I'm something of an impolite man, and I violate this bit of etiquette with some regularity.
GF
I'm not a slathering fangirl, but I'm also not huge on IWRY. It has a few good scenes, and some decent concepts. But not much follow through, considering it should be a big deal. And the sadness that basically - it's the happiest most content moment of Buffy's life and she doesn't remember it. There are some positive things, in retrospect as series' progressed. But at base, Morah is lame, and the Oracles suck and they should never have been introduced. Generally, presence of the Oracles in a fic is a sign of badness ensuing...
JW
I don't hate Whedon, but I do find him disappointing for his tendency to bite off bigger chunks of story than he could chew and for how he delegated story. Exhibit A being BtVS-7 which really failed to deliver on what was a decent concept. Because I work for the Navy, and when the boat sinks you blame the captain. And S7 was Joss' ship, and it sank. Hard.