Review of chapter "May the road rise with you" from jokersole
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I am liking this story, just as much as "Spiderman Hearts Jenny W." cant wait to see where you go from here.
Review By [jokersole] • Date [7 Nov 12] • Not Rated
Review of chapter "May the road rise with you" from alynambered
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Intriguing plot, unanswered questions and disturbing foreshadowing. What's not to like??
Review By [alynambered] • Date [7 Nov 12] • Not Rated
Review of chapter "May the road rise with you" from Oxnate
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First off, I have to say that I normally HATE prophesies in stories. They ruin regular stories and Fanfiction tends to be even worse. (See Harry Potter, ect...)
That being said, this is the first story I've read with prophetic dreams that I actually like. You're handling the prophesy very well. Just remember that it's a rattlesnake and it'll bite you if you let it.
Now for the rest of the review.
Interesting, a BtVS story that actually begins BEFORE Halloween. Be still my heart. You can actually use almost as much canon dialogue here as you want since no one has read story after story about this section of the plot.
"...and they take heart in knowing. They'll fight (against evil?) in whatever they do!" Oh that brought back memories. Can't remember a few words, but thank you for that.
Tell me Buffy goes as Princess Buttercup instead of Lady Useless.
Comments from author:
Well, Slayers do get prophetic dreams. Trouble is, usually they're very vague and you don't understand them until everything has gone to hell. Obvously, the PTB tried something else with Doyle and Cordelia, which worked extremely well apart from the whole "My head might explode eventually"-thing.
But as far as I'm concerned prophesy is only destiny until you change it. No such thing as "one true love", "soul mates" or "unshakable destiny" in the Buffyverse. If there was, she'd have been dead and buried at the end of Season 1, and Angel would never have had to leave.
Review of chapter "May the road rise with you" from JoeDineen
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I like it, especially the mythic foreshadowing.
Review By [JoeDineen] • Date [7 Nov 12] • Not Rated
Review of chapter "I wanna be sedated" from moringstar
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Ingesting keep up the good work.
Review By [moringstar] • Date [7 Nov 12] • Not Rated
Review of chapter "I wanna be sedated" from Greywizard
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Okay, this is getting quite confusing.
Which is sort of semi-annoying, but also kind of intriguing, story-wise. ;-)
If Willow is also somehow sharing in Buffy's Xander's dreams, then will Dawn be the third female who's been figuring in the dreams? Dies she exist in this particular time frame?
Review By [Greywizard] • Date [6 Nov 12] • Not Rated
Review of chapter "I wanna be sedated" from Muadzin
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I have no idea where this story is going and that amuses me mightily. Some fics you can tell from the first chapter where it is heading but this one likes to take its sweet time. Here's hoping for moar and a hopefully very interesting ride!!!
Oh dear... Hold on Xander! I wonder when it will occur to Giles that Xander might, just might have a connection with the silly ancient amulet that he found?
More please!
Review By [Genuka] • Date [6 Nov 12] • Rating [10 out of 10]
Review of chapter "Land of the Jolly" from ShalaDakiri
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Uh, green giant of a man? With an ax? I'm thinking less frozen veggie ads, more Sir Gawain and the Green Knight chopping off of heads. Especially with the whole King Arthur connection.
Review By [ShalaDakiri] • Date [6 Nov 12] • Not Rated
Excellent!! Really hoping that the weird dreams/prophesy/etc means poor Kendra gets to stay alive for a change; the poor girl hardly ever catches a break, no more than Faith in her own way. (HINT HINT)
Like the semi-mutual dreams Xander and Buffy are having, although I do wonder why Willow, if she's such a powerhouse in waiting, never seems to get included in the whole FutureVision thing as well. Seeing as she's still a major Xander fan st this point, I'm rather disappointed no one's ever tried to include her in these nightly jaunts.
And why does everyone save Xander seem so fracking accepting of Buffy having romantic feelings for a demon animated corpse? Yeah, he's started to pick up the slack now instead of his Dark Stalker Of The Jail Bait, complete with Obscure Warnings, but still...
For those of us who haven't seen King Arthur recently, you might want to point out that it's Guinevere telling Lancelot she won't let HIM be raped. It's much funnier when your audience knows that.
Ugh. I was so sure Xander was going to touch something he shouldn't despite his promise. Well done there.
Anyway, keep up the good work.
EDIT: Well, it was unclear to me who was saying what. Which was why I pointed it out. Better to be awkward and clear than to be smooth but useless.
You could go:
“You look frightened. There's a large number of lonely men out there.” Lancelot pointed out.
“Don't worry, I won't let them rape you.” Guinevere assured him.
Comments from author:
The rule of quoting goes; either put the names directly into the quotes (such as: Lancelot: "Blah blah blah", Guinevere: "Blah blah."), but that's awkward and clumsy IMO, or...the other option, which is quote them, then name the characters in order of dialog. Which I did. :-)