If you were a Pokemon, you'd be grass-type. Pokémon takes an accent; Grass-type takes a capital.

and tuned into the dialogue on the bed. This ought to be "tuned in to".

Padmé also needs an accent.

The intelligence report says it's Obi-Wan and Anakin.
and pulled the Intelligence report back up.
One of these needs to be changed, for the sake of consistency.

I am just as unperceptive as everyone else seems to be. I'm quite impressed by the speed with which you put this out, too.
I suppose that how well it works is informed by how not-obvious it is for so many people.
And I also liked the reference to OFUM. :-D

Clearly you have a time machine. That's the only reasonable explanation for how you got this mission done so quickly. And that, sir, is cheating!

Having said that... *squeee* astromechs! :)

Ahem, right, not sure what happened there... Must've been a glitch or something. I am of course far too mature to squee over ridiculously cute robots, and far too honest to lie about it. I'm glad we've got that cleared up.

As for the questions you asked:
a) about as long as it took for me to read through the mission, then the A/N at the end.
b) given that I didn't notice what you had done until you pointed it out, the only way I can describe how it worked is 'seamlessly'.
c) a good mission.

I liked the choice of disguise (I may have hinted at that earlier) - I don't recall seeing that one used before, which is always nice. I do however think it's a shame that you cheated (again! It's becoming a habit) with the droids' dialogue, even though you did have a good reason for it. I've been rereading a lot of the Expanded Universe recently, and there seems to be a trend in the later books to just give astromech speech normally, as you would for all the creatures that can speak Basic. The earlier books tended to describe the beeps that the mechs gave, letting you figure it out from the description, or give you another character's assumptions, or a reply from Threepio, etc., so that you could work out what had just been said. I think it's an interesting way of dealing with the language issues that came up in the films.

Obviously it wouldn't really have worked here, because with both of them communicating via beeps I think it would've been too difficult to get across all the details/subtleties of what was being said, but I must admit that I still found it slightly disappointing to just read their dialogue as if they hadn't donned their disguises.

Having said that, I never forgot that the characters were disguised - you included a several nice touches that worked as reminders. I particularly liked Freckles' response to being told to 'focus'.

All in all, nicely done.

- Irish

As far as the mission itself goes, my honest-to-God favorite part was the bit at the end where they discuss whether or not they would have reacted as strongly to it if it had been about different characters. I think that's an interesting issue for PPC agents in general - how objective can you be when you're dealing with badfic about someone you care for? How objective should you be? And what about when it's not just a character you admire, but someone who, from your perspective, is a real person? Definitely an entry for the list of "themes I want to explore at some point."

On the gimmick: I think it only worked because of how short the mission was, and because there weren't really any action scenes (meaning "scenes where the agents take direct actions," not specifically fight scenes). The characters felt a little like talking heads at times, and it bordered on being more of an MST than a mission.

I think part of the reason I didn't catch on, by the way, is that you had a pair of female characters and a pair of male characters. In that situation, you actually need to avoid overusing pronouns when you're describing things, lest you run into the Pronoun Problem. This is also why I cheated and specifically made a mixed-gender agent pair.

As far as wider implications go, I can accept that gender might not be necessary as a grammatical construct, but I think it's still an integral part of a lot of people's identities. We don't need it for our language to make sense, we need it because it's part of expressing who we are. Not saying you're denying that, but it's just my feelings on the issue.

I didn't spot a thing. Which probably means that it works very well.

(Sorry, my brain is just melting in the current heat wave. I cannot think of anything more to say.)

HG

Great work on the mission. I will admit, I missed the gimmick entirely until the note at the end - granted, it may have been because I was trying to hard to find said gimmick and Failed A Spot Check, hard. I enjoyed reading this, and I especially liked Elrond's grading methods!

I must admit, I did not even notice the gimmick until the ending author's note. Shows you how perspective I am. ^^; But I liked it; that was certainly interesting.

Also, "Worse: the hobbits got Elrond to grade the quiz." Sandra's lights flickered at the memory. "The only answer deemed acceptable was 'IT ISN'T' in all caps, though I think one of us got extra credit for adding a hundred-word rant in Sindarin about the subject."

This had me rolling.

Overall, excellent work! I enjoyed it immensely :) And now you put me to shame, writing a mission in a few hours like that. I gotta step up my game! ^_~