I Was A Ghost Before You Came, Pt. 9/10 (Bourne Series, R)

[bigsciencybrain]

Title: I Was A Ghost Before You Came
Author: Bigsciencybrain
Fandom: The Bourne Movies Series
Rating: R
Summary: Unable to trust the CIA, Bourne and Landy go into hiding after he escapes from the training facility.
Spoilers: Post-Ultimatum
Pairings: Bourne/Landy
Disclaimer: None of the characters are mine. Bourne belongs to the Ludlum

Comments

[bacchae23]

...I miss the un-creepy Mo Panov. Albert Hirsch is the scariest thing in this hemisphere. You did an excellent job making him a guy I would totally not want to be within a twenty-foot radius of.

It was also really interesting to see the development of Tom and his wife. I am very glad he's not dead. :)

I have to tell you (yet again) that I wish I could put movie-verse and book-verse in with each other so smoothly -- I've been writing my own Bourne series fic and it's always been awkward putting good ol' Ludlum with Gilroy. I can do it -- but the flow of it is questionable. And I didn't even try touching on Medusa.

WELL: this is awesome, and I'm actually going to be bummed when this is finished. But keep writing.

Cheers,
~b23

[bigsciencybrain]

I always thought I'd simply avoid trying to combine the novel and movie universes. But I needed a bad guy who was somewhat as badass as Bourne/Webb and after looking at the timelines...I figured I could use a generational trick to end up with Bourne vs. Bourne. I never found a way to work Conklin into the mix, as he should have been, but since they killed him off in Identity, it worked out. Another advantage, I thought, of working the two together was to give Blackbriar and Treadstone more momentum. To use Ezra Kramer as a clear line between programs and give his character more solid footing in the universe by tying him to both programs. And the idea that he had maintained a business relationship with the first "Bourne" gave me my villain.

Yeah...

I could write an entire commentary fic! LOL

[bacchae23]

Wow. It'd be like you're pulling a Greengrass or something. ;)

Out of curiosity, why did you try to avoid the two? I understand that some readers probably wouldn't "get" Ludlum-verse references, but were you just trying to avoid getting too entangled in a plot or...?

[bigsciencybrain]

I'd always assumed that the two would simply be incompatible. Beyond the basic idea, even the fundamental approach to the Bourne character is much different between movies and books. As much as I admire Ludlum and am grateful for his creation, he tended to glamorize on occasion and pull punches rather than dealing with the complexity of the character. That plus the timelines (it would have been Harrison Ford or Clint Eastwood instead of Matt Damon if we were book-timeline) and the differences in the creation and purpose of the Bourne identity.

Then I started to wonder if they didn't need to be compatible along the same timeline, but along parallel timelines with connecting branches instead.

Who knows...I may try something completely different in my next fic!

[bigsciencybrain]

Unfortunately (for me) I tend to build universes rather than "writing fics". More than likely, my future Bourne fic will tie in to this one somehow. This "universe" isn't done telling all its stories yet.