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Regina Gilchrist Ash (rash@dnet.net), 19 October:
Just wanted to tell you that altho' I've read it before...it still moved me just as much. Wonderfully written and follows your timeline so well.I *love* S5, and wish that ABC had had writers as good as the S5 team.
Sarah Wood (SarahWood@compuserve.com), 24 October:
Wow! What a great plot, what a powerful story! WAFFs and WHAMs galore! I was in tears at one point!One of the things I liked the most about it was that there wasn't really a villain, it was about an event -- kind of like All Shook Up -- which is so refreshing! Sure, the event was caused by two idjits, but the story wasn't about their nefarious plans and Lois and Clark's attempts to stop/catch them.
>> "You're not the only one who lost your patience when we got married." <<
Woo woo! There's much more where that came from! Lois & Clark was never this hot on-screen!
Sheila has a nice way with words, describing people and events in a way that brings them to life, makes them vivid:
>> The evacuation was made hideous by the whooping of an emergency siren and strobing red lights. <<
That reminded me of the end of Alien, and gave me a vivid sense of what was happening as well as the urgency and panic involved. I love that she brought back Space Station Prometheus from the Pilot ep (never again referred to in the series), and made mention of Mrs. Platt and her daughter Amy living there. There's been great continuity not only between the Season 5 episodes but also from earlier episodes throughout the series' run.
>> Behind him, the body of the module exploded soundlessly in a bloom of red and yellow flame. <<
I love it when people get that whole "space is silent" thing right! I thought this was a great description of an explosion in space; it lost none of its impact in its silence.
>> "When you first disappeared, I didn't know how to go on. How to face each day without you. And then I found out I was pregnant . . ." She swept a fall of hair behind one ear. "After all our hoping and worrying . . . and then you weren't there to share it." <<
WHAM! It's such a poignant situation -- it reminds me of Alt-Clark. I felt that this was our Lois after three years without Clark, and at the same time *not* our Lois because of her experiences, and I wanted Clark to get those three missing years back and return to his Lois, and I didn't want Lois to have to go through what she went through alone. For Lois to have to raise their child alone (okay, with Martha and Jonathan, but without Clark!) hurt me, but what hurt even more was Clark missing out on her pregnancy, on the birth of their baby, on those precious early years.
>> An ache gripped his heart with what was almost a physical pain, and he slipped into the room, a quiet ghost from the past. As he had done before, he sat in the chair by the window and watched over her as she slept, finding peace in the nearness of his beloved. <<
Geez, what do we call a WAFFy WHAM? Sheila has such evocative writing. I felt I was there, in the room, in Clark's soul, feeling his pain and the comfort he got merely from being near Lois.
I was glad Lois confided in Perry and Dr. Klein once Clark had disappeared -- she would have needed their support, and I think they would be totally trustworthy, Perry's poor taste in friends and golf companions notwithstanding!
I can also understand Clark's initial reaction to the idea of letting anyone else in on the secret, but I'm also glad that Sheila had him learn from his experiences and come around to seeing that their close friends and allies *can* be trusted, if necessary. >> "Use the sun's gravity to slingshot me through the tear."
"Like on Star Trek?" she asked incredulously. <<ROFL! This and the time-space continuum made *me* think of Trek, of course. I won't even ask about the science behind the episode -- it mad just enough sense for me to swallow, and I don't really care if a scientist would have problems with it or not.
>> She wasn't afraid. Not really. Even though she didn't really believe that it would be like waking from a dream. But she didn't want to be alone at the end. And she didn't want to let her baby go. <<
*sniff* This is where I was fighting back tears. Her courage in the face of danger has always been one of Lois' admirable qualities, and it positively shines here. The added dimension of motherhood only makes it more poignant. It made me want to get Duncan out of his crib and hold him close.
Of course, then I wouldn't have been able to finish the story because he wouldn't have gone back to sleep, so I resisted the urge, blinked several times, and went on reading. *g*
I was glad that our present-tense Lois had had a dream of losing something/someone, of grief, without knowing where it came from. It felt, to me, as though that other timeline wasn't completely gone, it would somehow be incorporated into this one. And of course I have no doubts that Lois and Clark will still get to have their CJ.
It was a magnificent story, very well told, blending action and science and humor and romance and steam, bringing in plenty of things from old episodes and taking Lois and Clark's relationship further along its bumpy course. It was everything I could hope for from the best of Lois and Clark. Kudos to Sheila Harper!
Debby Stark (debby@swcp.com), 26 October:
Sunday morning, when it's 6am (feels like 7am) and around 20 degrees and you have no car and nothing's open and you didn't want to go anywhere anyhow and you've just made some breakfast and the cats have decided to entertain themselves for a while... This is a good time to catch up on fanfic reading :)I recognized Sheila Harper's story as I got into it and thought, how clever, to turn a good fanfic into an exemplary Season 5 story. Updated a bit and written perhaps with a TV screen in mind, it still mixes excitement, tension, mystery, angst, and the right touches of comedy here and there considering the growing serious situation. It does better in many ways than the original since it means a lot more now :)
I think that given competent directing and an adequate budget for the computer graphics (particularly the space scenes), and knowing that the actors could have pulled it off--they would have loved the story, I'm sure--on screen this would have not only been one of my top-ten episodes but I think it would have been in contention for a lot of Emmys if there were any justice in the world. Awards could have gone for writing, acting, directing, set design, and even music: picture soft, distant, lonely music, the kind featured in 2001 as the ship heads for Jupiter, million and millions of miles from home, and use it to enhance Superman's plight as he approaches the roaring sun, all alone... whoa!
Kudos! 10/10. A+ Hooray! It's stories like this that help me realize I can just completely forget the (IMO) wretched parts of seasons 3 and 4... :)
Beauty1234 (beauty1234@aol.com), 1 November:
hi i am very big fan of lois and clark. i just loved FTASB. it had everything in it a folc could want. Keep up the good work
G & L Mortag (glskyln@execpc.com), 2 November:
Well, all I have to say is that I think the writers for this rule!! I was surprised to see the episodes written that well. I mean, their were a few typos, but I mean, who cares about two words put together anyway. I was also suprised at the plot. It was well thought out and there wasn't a gliche in it at all(It all made perfect sense).I really enjoyed the romance. At first, when I was reading it, I was confused, but when Clark arrived in the future and we found out about CJ, it all made sense.
Let me clarify this for you. WOW!!!!!!
Ana Lanes (AnaLanes@aol.com), 11 November:
You guys are getting better each episode. This one is the best one of that season until now. I love the love scenes between Lois & Clark. And I was really frustrated with them on TV. They were so conservatives and because of that very unreal sometimes...very inocent for two adults...now that they are not be seeing on TV we can have a little bit more of details without losing the classical part of the event.
When Clark came back from the space and realized that 3 years have been past I was so furious! Specially with a 3 year old Superman baby! Lois having to go through her pregnancy alone!!! Clark losing all the firsts three years of his son life!!!
EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE LOIS GOING THROUGH THAT PREGNANCY STAGE! WITH CLARK TEASING HER...the morning sickness and everything. I hope you guys will make her pregnant during this season. making hae have the baby at the end of the season, NOT MAKING HER PREGNANT AT THE END OF THE SEASON. WE WANT TO SEE LOIS GOING THROUGH THE PREGNANCY STAGE!!!!!!!!!!
That why I was so happy seeing everything back to where it was at the end of the episode.
Grade: A
Lynda Cook (taxmam@mscomm.com), 4 December:
This is the best so far. You guys do a great job of tying in each episode. It is hard to believe that different writers could keep up the continuity. It was definately a tear jerker.The only criticism I have is that I believe Lois & Clark have a very real "bonding" of their souls that would carry through time and eternity. So I think that when Clark got back, they would have been so "connected" that they would have been up those stairs "Faster than a Speeding Bullet" and AFTER they had renewed their passionate connection, then Lois would have "remembered" to tell Clark about their son. I don't think she "would need time to get used to this." She would just be so overwhelmingly happy that he had returned safe and sound. I think you forgot about them being true "Soul Mates."
Keep up the good work.
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