(Why not spin off the Piers Anthony discussion to its own thread? Just so we don't lose focus here.)
I was going through an archive of saved fics and I came across Jared's "Shampoo's Revenge" -- now there's a fic that started great and then went wildly off the rails. Nice simple concept, good implementation, really good plot developing that had me very interested in seeing where it went... and then a sudden left turn into a subplot about how Mrs. Tendo is still alive, divorced from Soun, is married to Dr. Tofu, and just about every minor character from the show is actually her child. I'll admit I liked the idea behind that subplot -- that in being so caught up in her schemes and scams, Nabiki actually missed some fairly important (and obvious!) things in her life -- but dammit, that should have been a separate fic on its own. Instead, Jared let it take over "Shampoo's Revenge" and scuttle the main plot. Argh.
-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.
I was going through an archive of saved fics and I came across Jared's "Shampoo's Revenge" -- now there's a fic that started great and then went wildly off the rails. Nice simple concept, good implementation, really good plot developing that had me very interested in seeing where it went... and then a sudden left turn into a subplot about how Mrs. Tendo is still alive, divorced from Soun, is married to Dr. Tofu, and just about every minor character from the show is actually her child. I'll admit I liked the idea behind that subplot -- that in being so caught up in her schemes and scams, Nabiki actually missed some fairly important (and obvious!) things in her life -- but dammit, that should have been a separate fic on its own. Instead, Jared let it take over "Shampoo's Revenge" and scuttle the main plot. Argh.
-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.