Well, I don't remember what I can have been saying about Blake and Avon, but it definitely wouldn't have contained badly written slashfic :-p
(Something about trust in analogy with Thor and Loki, probably.)
I shan't respond to the thread, because I never have time -- I was actually in the library today for a snatched half-hour before closing, busy posting review replies (well, a review reply) and scouring several years' worth of my old FFnet outbox, but I didn't have even a spare five minutes to glance at Writers Anonymous -- and I think the moment for critique on that passage has passed. The writer has gone off satisfied that she is doing well, and I can't very well rake it up and contradict the verdict now. Even if I were likely to be in a position to have an alternate version written any time in the near future, which I'm not. (And in any case, writing alternate versions won't usefully teach her anything; it would just be a challenge to me.)
I'm still mildly tempted, because it *would* be an unthinkably massive challenge to me... but quite apart from everything else I can't make head or tail of her intended scenario (if this is Blake rescuing Avon instead of his canon rescue of Tarrant, it still makes no sense to me that he isn't in the least curious about what Blake has been up to and why he isn't dead, and basically doesn't have any of the canon emotions you might expect from such an encounter, only extremely unconvincing uncanonical ones...) Also, I just can't get my head round Avon fancying Blake, and I'd have to put myself inside it to be able to write it :-p
The comment you quoted really was surprising because... How can something that does not feel like an interaction between real people feel okay at all?
I can only read that as cathrl trying to say tactfully 'well, that's mildly less utterly awful'... I *don't* know final-episode Avon and final-episode Blake very well (not least because I've never had any desire to rewatch the final episode, because everything goes horribly wrong for everyone in it), but I just can't imagine either of them ever saying those lines of dialogue, and the narrative from inside Avon's head doesn't sound anything like him at all.
(He is *not* a fussy, worried C-3PO or a tut-tutting vague and kindly Aziraphale: he is a lot more like Snape, boiling with coldly contained and cynical resentment against the uncharacteristic role he has been forced to play. Avon is not one of nature's heroes; he is a self-contained survivor who will (it's canon) try to kill his closest friend if it's a straight choice between the two of them. He is bitter and dangerous with a tendency towards acid repartee, and the last thing he is inclined to do is let his emotional guard down -- in his experience, whenever you do that, it comes back to bite you.)
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Date: 2023-01-20 12:49 am (UTC)(Something about trust in analogy with Thor and Loki, probably.)
I shan't respond to the thread, because I never have time -- I was actually in the library today for a snatched half-hour before closing, busy posting review replies (well, a review reply) and scouring several years' worth of my old FFnet outbox, but I didn't have even a spare five minutes to glance at Writers Anonymous -- and I think the moment for critique on that passage has passed. The writer has gone off satisfied that she is doing well, and I can't very well rake it up and contradict the verdict now. Even if I were likely to be in a position to have an alternate version written any time in the near future, which I'm not. (And in any case, writing alternate versions won't usefully teach her anything; it would just be a challenge to me.)
I'm still mildly tempted, because it *would* be an unthinkably massive challenge to me... but quite apart from everything else I can't make head or tail of her intended scenario (if this is Blake rescuing Avon instead of his canon rescue of Tarrant, it still makes no sense to me that he isn't in the least curious about what Blake has been up to and why he isn't dead, and basically doesn't have any of the canon emotions you might expect from such an encounter, only extremely unconvincing uncanonical ones...)
Also, I just can't get my head round Avon fancying Blake, and I'd have to put myself inside it to be able to write it :-p
I can only read that as cathrl trying to say tactfully 'well, that's mildly less utterly awful'...
I *don't* know final-episode Avon and final-episode Blake very well (not least because I've never had any desire to rewatch the final episode, because everything goes horribly wrong for everyone in it), but I just can't imagine either of them ever saying those lines of dialogue, and the narrative from inside Avon's head doesn't sound anything like him at all.
(He is *not* a fussy, worried C-3PO or a tut-tutting vague and kindly Aziraphale: he is a lot more like Snape, boiling with coldly contained and cynical resentment against the uncharacteristic role he has been forced to play. Avon is not one of nature's heroes; he is a self-contained survivor who will (it's canon) try to kill his closest friend if it's a straight choice between the two of them. He is bitter and dangerous with a tendency towards acid repartee, and the last thing he is inclined to do is let his emotional guard down -- in his experience, whenever you do that, it comes back to bite you.)