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Date Posted: 18:10:58 11/07/02 Thu
Author: Jade
Author Host/IP: inktomi3-nth.server.ntl.com / 62.253.32.6
Subject: Re: General Review & Discussion: Domestication by Indie.
In reply to: KatLurkin 's message, "General Review & Discussion: Domestication by Indie." on 15:52:34 11/04/02 Mon

What can I say?

What an amazing story. It enthralled me from the beginning.
The plot was brilliant and well thought out. How do people come up with this stuff? I loved the relationship between Buffy and Angel, and also between Giles and Buffy, that he turned out to be her dad. It made me really feel for Buffy, being a Slayer at this time.
The end was so sad, I admit to crying, when I thought Buffy was dead. I got to the end of that chapter, thinking she was dead, when my computer crashed, so I was left in suspence for ages!
This is the first story I have read that I can compare to Phoenix Burning, and as I have no life, I have read hundreds of fan fictions :-)
I really can't critise it much, the first chapter took me a few minutes to get in to, then I was away, I couldn't leave it. I would have liked to see a bit of interaction between Buffy and her 'sisters.' But I loved it anyway.


I give this story full marks, 100/100.

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[> Re: General Review & Discussion: Domestication by Indie. -- ScarletNicky, 19:49:56 11/07/02 Thu (cache-rk06.proxy.aol.com/152.163.189.70)

This one's really hard for me to rate because I thought it was a really good story, but that it was barely a BtVS/Ats fanfic at all. It sorta reminded me of the X-Men story arc where they went to Genosha, a country where mutants were enslaved and used as slave labor.

There were characters that had the names of Jossverse characters, but most of them didn't seem like the same people and their histories and motivations had changed so radically that it was disorienting. I love AU stories, but in this one I had a hard time finding a reference point.

I hesitate to give it too low a score because I think it's really well written with compelling characters (which seemed like original characters to me, with the exception of Angel). I would encourage the author to flesh it out a bit, change the names, and try to publish it as an original novel.

One other thing I thought was interesting: I found Angel to be an amalgam of Angel & Spike. In other words, he had Angel's personality, but Spike's circumstance (being considered "beneath Buffy"). Since I love both of those characters, I really could relate to him.

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