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Date Posted: 10:29:57 10/29/02 Tue
Author: Kaylorin
Author Host/IP: pcp632159pcs.newhvn01.in.comcast.net / 68.53.200.184
Subject: Where to start???
In reply to: KatLurkin 's message, "General Review & Discussion: Tabula Rasa By Lori Bush (BX)" on 19:29:23 10/28/02 Mon

Oh boy. I really have some problems with this story. The plot was... not so interesting if really there at all. I get that the point is to hook up B/X, and yay for Xan in the end, but I'm not sure I liked how it was gone about.

Note: I'm not really into reading POV, so if this is extra harsh, that could be part of the reason.

The writer touched on several emotional moments, without really bringing us to them. They just sort of popped up.

I thought Anya was well done. In Character. She was about the only one though.

Xander, as cool as he is, does not go out and kick vamp ass.. alone... ever. I mean, really. Having him do this alone seemed really off.

How can Buffy feel like such a slayer and be such a whimpering girly girl? I don't like when writers make her a slave to her feelings and thats kinda all she did here.

Props for not making Spike a terrible vampire just cuz it was a Xan fic.. so yay on that.

I did like Angel and Xander beign buds... and in all truth, we really don't know how they would react to eachother now.. so I'll just smile and nod.

I don't want to critique each character one by one, but several seemed off. Plus in a POV you really don't get much more than the person who's being POV'ed.

I did enjoy reading some of Xander's observations of Cordy and Angel. The writer did take time in making their characters who they are in season 2 AtS, so again.. props.

Overall though, I'm going to have to go lower than I'd like to. I had serious trouble trying to get into the story, something I had very littel trouble with last sessions BX.

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[> Re: General Review & Discussion: Tabula Rasa By Lori Bush (BX) -- Chani, 13:13:42 10/29/02 Tue (curie.noos.net/212.198.0.93)

I did enjoy reading that story! I didn't force myself to read it at all. Besides, as i don't belive in a B/X pair, i think that only a new Buffy could fall in love with Xander. So with an amnesic Buffy, the love story can work IMO. This plot suited me. I also did like many dialogues, well written.

However, i have problems with the characterization. When I started to read this story, i found this Xander very cool and funny, but he wasn't the Xander i knew. I didn't recognize Xander's voice. He wasn't so far from "my" Xander, but he wasn't him.
Buffy wasn't the Buffy i knew either, but i guess i could deal with that since she wasn't supposed to be herself because of her amnesia. Xander knows that in the story when he talks about Buffy Before opposed to Buffy Now. There's something very interesting there. The author might have worked that deeperly.
Yet i am not convinced by the ending. It would have been more credible if Buffy had regained her memories later, and still had kept her feelings that way though...Finally the amnesia seems to be only a convenient tool to put Buffy and Xander together. That bothers me.
Sometimes the shippers are too much in a hurry :-)

Well as i have to give a grade...

80


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