This was so epicly good. I laughed myself silly so many times. You turly did an excellent job. I loved how you wrote Giles, Buffy, Anne-Bot, the stormtroopers, everyone. Evil Leia. Evil Han. gray Chewy, good but stupid Luke. and stupid evil Ben. Just a stand up job on them all. Perhaps one of the most origonal plot ideas in a long time. I was sucked in from the start to the end. An excellent read. I fully enjoyed my time spent reading this. Thank you for sharing.
Comments from author:
Well, thank-you very much.
Yours has to be one of my top ten reviews received, something to remind myself about if I'm feeling down.
Review of chapter "Chapter Fourteen." from Listener
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I enjoyed this story -- as I enjoy most of your work. Thinking about Buffy and Giles being thrown into Star Wars bodies was a clever choice, and it led to much humor. Also, the story hung many lampshades on the SW film, which I always appreciate.
Occasionally the troops got a little silly what with the use of "Bruce" so often, but I can look past that.
Looking forward to your next endeavor.
Comments from author:
Thank-you.
The entire 'Bruces' hing was a bit of an after thought, I thought they were just a little 'faceless' for people to be sympathetic to so I thought I'd give them some 'character'.
My next story to be posted is the next chapter in the continuing story of Faith in the Army, this time Faith goes to college...yep, an 'Animal House' xover.
Cheers, D.
Review By [Listener] • Date [19 Oct 12] • Rating [8 out of 10]
Review of chapter "Chapter Fourteen." from Omegaprime
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The thing about the whole evil/good R2-D2 that I kinda suggested could be like that Bender/Flexo situation they have in the show Fututrama. You know; Flexo being the good robot even though he has the standard evil villain goatee.
Comments from author:
Yep that could work...if I ever get enough time to write it.
Cheers, D.
Review By [Omegaprime] • Date [9 Oct 12] • Not Rated
Fantastically fun story, but it should have come with a warning that it might be destructive to childhood heroes and contains the death of cherished Innocence and Naivety for us all :( I hope the Aussie troopers were not based on Temuera Morrison who played Boba Fett and the clones in the prequels because he is actually from New Zealand and all of Hobbitland will hate you forever! I liked that you didn't hold back from pointing out some of the gaping plot holes and stupid decisions on the part of, well, everyone. It certainly provided a different point of view to see how Buffy ended up accidentally massacring those Jawas and righteously putting down the rebellious moisture farmers. At least they saved Alderaan. That is a couple of billion lives in the plus column. I have to ask if Giles is still the Father of Luke and Leia and just doesn't know it? At least he only offered Leia tea in this version :) That was a great scene! The Buffybot was fantastic too, a mix of Terminator and sexbot that just spoke her mind. Maybe she was spending too much time with Anya? I'm sure she would have behaved just like that on the show if the ratings had allowed it. Plus she would have had two confirmed lesbians to proposition incessantly, as well as Buffy herself! At least the beloved Buffybot will be welcomed across Imperial space with open...um, arms, for a long time yet. Hey, If Giles and Buffy got transported to a Galaxy far away, does that mean that Darth Vader and a stormtrooper or two ended up back in Sunnydale?
Comments from author:
Thank-you for your review, I shall try to address a few of your questions.
Luke is still Vader's son although were Vader went to I don't know!
The Stormtroopers; definitely Aussies based more on Monty Python's 'Bruce's Sketch' than anything else.
Sexbot/Buffy-Bot; some time ago there was a web cartoon series about the adventures of Buffy, Buffy-Bot, Willow and Vamp-Willow all living in the same house and generally ending up in bed together. Actually that sounds like a good Idea for a fic, but I digress. Any way it was that series I had in the back of my mind when I wrote Buffy-Bot. As an aside, originally I'd thought of having Faith's consciousness being downloaded into a Terminator/Sex-bot because she'd been too badly injured to save. However it just didn't work so I rewrote it.
I keep mentioning a possible sequel featuring Anne Bott and the Stormtroopers (a weird rock band?) but as I say its a very slim possibility.
Cheers, D.
Review By [Gideon] • Date [9 Oct 12] • Rating [10 out of 10]
Review of chapter "Chapter Fourteen." from moldavia
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Snort...lol nuthin else to say other than nice job, dude!
Comments from author:
Thank-you so much.
D.
Review By [moldavia] • Date [8 Oct 12] • Rating [8 out of 10]
Review of chapter "Chapter Fourteen." from michaelangelo
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The end, so sad, so long to a hilarious story.... So any other plans for a sequel? there is Xander, Willow and Dawn after all, imagine what genre THEY could cock up, maybe even with Anne-Bot's help. Twilight is screaming for a bloody good kicking in the scrote.
Comments from author:
Thank-you.
I'm a little wary of writing sequels these days, particularly to stories that were planned as one shots. But there may be something later...a long time later.
Cheers, D.
Review By [michaelangelo] • Date [7 Oct 12] • Rating [10 out of 10]
Review of chapter "Chapter Fourteen." from JoeDineen
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Amusing rather than side splitting funny, probably too constrained by the movie. I could see Buffy and Giles easily throw off the history of the Star Wars verse enough to make the movies simply not happen.
Comments from author:
Yep that was the plan...and I can live with amusing.
Cheers, D.
Review By [JoeDineen] • Date [7 Oct 12] • Not Rated
Only thing missing was what happened to Obiwon and the Emperor.
Comments from author:
Yep, you're right I should have put that in...only I forgot!
Darn!
Well, there you are, lets see...Oh-big-one got forgotten about and rotted in his cell. The Emperor...I expect he had his powers eroded over a period of years until one day he woke up and found he was a powerless old man that no one listened to anymore...if they ever actually had.
Sad.
Thanks for reading, D.
Review By [grd] • Date [7 Oct 12] • Rating [10 out of 10]
Review of chapter "Chapter Fourteen." from eriktheviking
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It's been a cracking good fun story and I'm sorry to see it end. The epilogue was a fun read but I'm trying to place your inspiration, any clues?
Well done and thanks for all the fun.
Comments from author:
For the 'What happened next' part?
The hanging of Solo in low gravity was probably some thing I reads in a sci-fi novel years ago.
Liea, well that was a bit like what happened to Vic at the end of 'The Shield'.
The rest? I just wanted a no nonsense happy ending with just a hint of 'a job left unfinished' for most of the characters. You know people get old and don't want to be off adventuring, they want to put there feet up by the fire with a good book and a better pint!
Cheers, D.
Review By [eriktheviking] • Date [6 Oct 12] • Rating [9 out of 10]
Review of chapter "Chapter Fourteen." from DofEire
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As usual at the end of one of your stories, I find myself sitting with a grin and shaking my head with laughter. :) Another good'un, Mate!
Comments from author:
Thank-you, glad you like 'em. D.
Review By [DofEire] • Date [6 Oct 12] • Rating [10 out of 10]
Review of chapter "Chapter Fourteen." from CPTSkip
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You b****d! You killed R2D2!
Great story, I laughed all the way through. But your ending, other than that of Anne-Bot, was just too frakking optimistic. Rebels are like cockroaches. No matter how many you stomp on, there are always more. Maybe we will eventually see Crushing the Rebellion, Part 2, the Revenge of Beatrice Summers?
Really enjoyed your story, but I think turning the Peace Star into a Disney World In Space amusment station would have been cooler.
PS I just realized what you missed. After Buffy's White-shellbacks were slaughtered by the rebel scum, she should have screamed, "By Gabthor's Hammer, you will be avenged!" Not sure how to spell 'Gabthor' as I've never seen Galaxy Quest with subtitles.
Comments from author:
Galaxy Quest...how about making that into a serious sci-fi adventure story!?
Actually you've reminded me that I haven't got a copy of Galaxy Quest in my DVD collection, better rectify that.
Optimistic, yeah that's me always see the silver lining never the dark cloud...yeah right, how many people have I killed off in my fics?
There is one idea for a sequel but it'll only be a short one and it'll be some time in the writing.
Genius, brilliant and excellent! Not too much I hope, but the story had a certain charm especially since the refurbished movie series cut it out of the story.
Comments from author:
Go with the original when you have a 'classic' is what I say.
All these re-cuts and so one are just cynical ways of making more money. My copy of Star Wars has some of the effects re-done and a couple of scenes added, but it doesn't really add much to the film.