NO I KNOW. As soon as I finished it I had to go back and read all my favorite bits again! I'm starting to read it now again (I did want to wait until my FEELINGS on the first read-through had settled down just a bit, to see if it was as good as I remembered. IT IS).
Going back to your previous comment -- it just completely boggles my mind how CWR takes tropes that could so easily be done completely wrong and does them right. Like H/C, as you say. Like the Rush/AI/Young threesome -- even just writing that down that sounds horrible, right? Like something out of a bad PWP? But CWR makes it into this amazing thing where now I think part of my headcanon is Rush/AI, at least. And it's even more amazing because we never, in a sense, see the AI as itself -- it's always filtered through their perceptions. (And it killed me when Young finally, finally admitted that Destiny was in love with Rush, almost at the very end. AGH.)
And the handling of the long form is, as you say, spectacular. I simply don't know of anyone else who handles the overall long arc so well -- the HP fic above might, but it's hard to tell since it's a WIP right now, and I suspect it's a little more diffuse than FoD.
And YES, the sex-and-math. Simply magnificent. (and like I say above, so nice to find someone who CARES!) I loooove the physics/math/science bits that creep in. (The one that absolutely KILLED me was the carryover from "Infinite Loops" where Rush and the AI talk about love as marginal utility and then it comes back in "What Goes Undelivered" -- OUCH OUCH.)
And, and, and -- so that time loop chapter? Was when I fell really shatteringly in love. And the scenes of comic relief! Eli and Destiny Bingo! JUST.
And the characters -- I love how even though it's Rush-Young-centric all the other characters are still well-rounded and in-character. LOVELY.
I feel the same way about SGU that you do -- I loooove arc-driven TV. And honestly I didn't think much of the writing first season (at that point I was basically only watching for Carlyle), but second season was just starting to find its feet when they canceled it, BAH. AND THE ACTING. I think every single one of the actors on SGU did an incredible job. And the small-scale character writing is really good!
Speaking of arc-driven TV SF, have you watched ST:DS9? When it was doing arc I thought it actually did it really well. (Some of the standalones are also absolutely magnificent, although some are, well, not.) THe first couple of seasons are slow, but I think it gets quite good. (Not to the level of Farscape, mind, but what is?)
Also also... not SF, but have you watched Veronica Mars?
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Date: 2012-07-17 03:10 pm (UTC)Going back to your previous comment -- it just completely boggles my mind how CWR takes tropes that could so easily be done completely wrong and does them right. Like H/C, as you say. Like the Rush/AI/Young threesome -- even just writing that down that sounds horrible, right? Like something out of a bad PWP? But CWR makes it into this amazing thing where now I think part of my headcanon is Rush/AI, at least. And it's even more amazing because we never, in a sense, see the AI as itself -- it's always filtered through their perceptions. (And it killed me when Young finally, finally admitted that Destiny was in love with Rush, almost at the very end. AGH.)
And the handling of the long form is, as you say, spectacular. I simply don't know of anyone else who handles the overall long arc so well -- the HP fic above might, but it's hard to tell since it's a WIP right now, and I suspect it's a little more diffuse than FoD.
And YES, the sex-and-math. Simply magnificent. (and like I say above, so nice to find someone who CARES!) I loooove the physics/math/science bits that creep in. (The one that absolutely KILLED me was the carryover from "Infinite Loops" where Rush and the AI talk about love as marginal utility and then it comes back in "What Goes Undelivered" -- OUCH OUCH.)
And, and, and -- so that time loop chapter? Was when I fell really shatteringly in love. And the scenes of comic relief! Eli and Destiny Bingo! JUST.
And the characters -- I love how even though it's Rush-Young-centric all the other characters are still well-rounded and in-character. LOVELY.
I feel the same way about SGU that you do -- I loooove arc-driven TV. And honestly I didn't think much of the writing first season (at that point I was basically only watching for Carlyle), but second season was just starting to find its feet when they canceled it, BAH. AND THE ACTING. I think every single one of the actors on SGU did an incredible job. And the small-scale character writing is really good!
Speaking of arc-driven TV SF, have you watched ST:DS9? When it was doing arc I thought it actually did it really well. (Some of the standalones are also absolutely magnificent, although some are, well, not.) THe first couple of seasons are slow, but I think it gets quite good. (Not to the level of Farscape, mind, but what is?)
Also also... not SF, but have you watched Veronica Mars?