Subject: My thoughts.
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Posted on: 2015-07-16 08:52:00 UTC

First off, it's good to see both you and your agents out and about again, so to speak. I've enjoyed your spinoff in the past and your characters have traditionally been very solid.

That being said, this story felt a little uneven to me. I thought the conclusion was quite good, but the bulk of the mission itself felt a bit lacking. I feel like part of that was due to long stretches of the story being very MST-like in structure. Badfic line, agent quip, badfic line, agent quip, and so on. As Nesh said in one of her posts, seeing inside their heads or getting a bit more description would have been good. I also wasn't crazy about the lack of significant interaction between Library and JF, but I can rationalize it as they're still getting used to one another in-universe.

I won't really get into the formatting stuff. Other people have already touched upon what I would have mentioned (the blending of badfic quotes with mission text and so on). I'm curious to see what it looks like on the Dreamwidth site.

The conclusion was pretty solid though, as I mentioned before. I feel like the story starts picking up once the agents start bumping off the various Sues. The level of interaction between the agents and the canonical characters feels good; I particularly enjoyed the bit where Ron says "Damn right!" after Library brings up the repeated bashing of him. The final scene following the mission felt a bit insubstantial in comparison. I personally would't have minded if the story had ended when they all portalled back to HQ.

I would say that I enjoyed this story, unevenness notwithstanding. I would argue that it could do with some tightening, but it definitely had its moments.

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