Comments | rivier: fic: SJA / TW crossover, "The Other" (5/5)

rivier

fic: SJA / TW crossover, "The Other" (5/5)

Oct 14, 2009 04:43

Part 4

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nancybrown October 15 2009, 03:32:48 UTC

This was so sweet! I love SJA so much, and I love Sarah and the kids in this, and how they're so bright and competent and right, and yes, they shouldn't trust Jack because Jack is dangerous, but that's what they need. *flails* (And yes, I won at "name that guest star" a paragraph in, but it didn't matter because the important part was how WONDERFUL this whole story was.)

Thanks for sharing it!

rivier October 20 2009, 18:15:46 UTC

Wheee, THANK YOU! That is very spiffy!

I love love LOVE the SJA kids. They aren't plastic-perfect at all, they feel plausible to me, but they are all fundamentally open-hearted and they have integrity and loyalty to the people they love, and it shines out in what they all do, how they look to protect each other but also to try to do the right thing. Siiiigh! I'm a sucker for accidentally-right 'family' units.

(Name That Guest Star was *impossible*! I couldn't work out how to keep his identity under wraps at all, hence covering him in grot and making him lose his voice! It was all very cheap on my part: Jack will never forgive me...)

settiai October 15 2009, 04:30:53 UTC

This was an absolutely lovely story. You did a wonderful job on it.

rivier October 20 2009, 18:16:57 UTC

Thank you very much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it.

(Looking at your icon reminds me how much I miss Maria!)

wildestranger October 15 2009, 14:43:12 UTC

Oh Jack. Still a bastard to the end. *smacks him*

You've created the pining for Ianto very vividly and I loved all the emotional undercurrents in this.

rivier October 20 2009, 21:38:42 UTC

Oh yes, if nothing else remains constant in this universe, Jack's essential bastardy will always be there to fall back on!

Glad you enjoyed it, alcoholic Manchester deja vu and all!

satanassa October 17 2009, 18:24:31 UTC

This was marvellous and I'm really impressed how well you straddled the two worlds of 'child-friendly' SJA and 'adult' Torchwood. Thanks a lot for posting this.

rivier October 20 2009, 21:51:55 UTC

Thank you! The two worlds don't exactly have a lot of natural overlap: I'm glad you think it worked ( ... )

satanassa October 21 2009, 20:39:02 UTC

That makes sense. Thanks for replying.

rathead October 17 2009, 18:47:00 UTC

I really like this. I"m not familiar with SJA, but that doesn't matter here because everyone is so fully realized. I also love that you didn't really fix Ianto by the end of it.

rivier October 20 2009, 22:01:15 UTC

Thank you and a huge WOW! I'm really grateful you took a punt on this when it's so heavily SJA-based - and that it worked anyway! That makes me very grinny!

Poor Ianto. In my head I know how he gets fixed, though not after having a bit of an angsty ride back to Cardiff with Jack and his wonderful sympathetic bedside manner, har har... Sometimes the urge to pinch Ianto a bit for the pleasure of watching him writhe is too hard to resist!