Gosh darn. I really enjoyed this series. I hope you will consider writing more in this verse. maybe how they get Joyce to accept it. the whole part with the stevedore reminded me of the Band Candy incident which does not bear thinking of with this series but it gave me a good laugh. Did that still happen in this verse? Please tell me no.
Sorry mind in gutter needs to get out.
Comments from author:
Alas yes ... This is goes AU in 5th season, so the band Candy incident has happened, and Buffy knows about it (via the mind reading thing), hence Giles' attempt at a (very) small joke.
But in this, enough time has passed for it to be in the past - and Buffy has grown up enough for it not to bother her. She knows Giles isn't perfect. Only practically so ... *g*
Review By [FireDragon] • Date [9 Feb 09] • Not Rated
Well! That was certainly tugging on *my* heartstrings. I love the though of the gift filling a glass through the phone line, and how deftly Giles turned his father's bitterness ("Damn her. She always wanted to take you away from me. And now she has. You were always Alice ’s son to her. Never mine") back to the pride it ought to be. For in many ways, Giles as you have depicted him *is* his father's son, and that makes the character much richer than I'd suspected it would.
Review By [Idhren] • Date [14 Jan 09] • Rating [10 out of 10]
This was lovely. And that paragraph was the best description of England I've ever read, perfectly describing everything that's good about it (or at least how a homesick ex-pat might see it). And I'm Welsh *g*
Comments from author:
Hee! Wales has that same sense of history, of course, but you have to mention the mountains and the valleys, and the slate, and the mines, and other such stuff ...
I am English, and this is why I love my country - although these days it's getting harder and harder to keep this sort of stuff in mind. It's still there though, if you look. :-)
Review By [idontlikegravy] • Date [11 Jan 09] • Not Rated
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