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Date Posted: 18:36:50 11/06/02 Wed
Author: Girl Guide jones
Author Host/IP: dhcp024-210-034-173.columbus.rr.com / 24.210.34.173
Subject: Re: General Review & Discussion: Tabula Rasa By Lori Bush (BX)
In reply to: KatLurkin 's message, "General Review & Discussion: Tabula Rasa By Lori Bush (BX)" on 19:29:23 10/28/02 Mon

Hmmm. I'm afraid I have to say that I was very bored while reading this story.

A story needs to have some sort of a plot to hook the viewer, or to be an interesting window into a character if it's a POV, as this one is supposed to be. This story was neither of these things.

Buffy was a wimp. Why would Xander -or anyone else, for that matter- want this needy excuse for a girl we are shown? Ugh.

Xander's characterization was so far off that it discolored any other perceptions in the story. The bit with Anya was clearly a device used to make Xander a shining knight whose every decision was justified. Why? This is not the Xander we've been shown on BtVS.

And there was no reason established for why a mind-wiped Buffy would love Xander any more than a Buffy who just moved to Sunnydale and didn't know him from Adam then, either.

Nothing rang true here. In fact, it clanged with discord. I give it a 65.

~GGj

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[> Re: General Review & Discussion: Tabula Rasa By Lori Bush (BX) -- Dawny, 02:11:30 11/09/02 Sat (216-229-82-50-dialup-mo.fidnet.com/216.229.82.50)

I too thought the majority of the characterization was way off. They just didn't seem to meld together. The story itself seemed unreal.

I just couldn't stay interested.

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