I followed the hl_flash link to your "Fight Another Day" on my lunch break, and enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing!
I appreciate how you used this change to cut to the core of Duncan's character -- his identity and his honor -- and to contrast his understanding with his friends'. Duncan's striving for fairness and justice isn't, as Methos and Amanda sometimes seem to think, a privilege of his superior skill, a luxury he can indulge because he's the best; it's the heart without which there is no life.
I liked the use of four centuries to unlearn as a bigger challenge than starting from scratch would be, and the blade tossed to a hand not there to receive it.
If this had been a longer and wider sort of piece, I would have loved to have gotten to share Duncan ruminating on now being in the position in which he put Xavier, and also on Joe, particularly, whether this unusual shared status makes it harder or easier for them to connect, when it first happens.
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"There are things he's not willing to sacrifice."
Date: 2011-05-03 08:32 pm (UTC)I appreciate how you used this change to cut to the core of Duncan's character -- his identity and his honor -- and to contrast his understanding with his friends'. Duncan's striving for fairness and justice isn't, as Methos and Amanda sometimes seem to think, a privilege of his superior skill, a luxury he can indulge because he's the best; it's the heart without which there is no life.
I liked the use of four centuries to unlearn as a bigger challenge than starting from scratch would be, and the blade tossed to a hand not there to receive it.
If this had been a longer and wider sort of piece, I would have loved to have gotten to share Duncan ruminating on now being in the position in which he put Xavier, and also on Joe, particularly, whether this unusual shared status makes it harder or easier for them to connect, when it first happens.
Again, thanks.