Awesome new chapter :D

Awesome new chapter :D

What a wonderful outing! The twists and turns are amazing. How can this epic end? I'm hoping that you haven't given up, and will someday finish this tour-de-force. Eagerly awaiting more.

This may be your best-written chapter yet, because you had to deal with both the reunion and separation of Steed and Emma--as well as end things with a cliffhanger. As a person who occasionally writes myself, I know how easy it is to fail to deliver on 'built-up-to scenes' like this one, so I'm particularly impressed when someone pulls it off perfectly, like you did here.

Bloody fantastic! :-D
Loved every minute spent reading, PLEASE update!!
Jess
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Ha-Har! Still loving it! :-D
Jess
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Sorry, meant to review earlier on in the fic but I was too damn engrossed and just kept clicking onto the next chapter!
Fab story - seriously, uve really captured the sense and way of the tv series in ur writing, not to mention the fact that all the characters are spot on! Love that Steed and Emma are together yet theyre still as they always are, not changed in anyway :-D
Wow, long review I no -but hey, expect another one as I go on! lol.
Jess
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Well done! So what's on the tape? I went back and re-read Emma's dialogue that was recorded, but I couldn't figure out how it could be edited and re-arranged into something so damaging (although she could have said other things in addition to those mentioned.) I'm looking forward to the eventual "big reveal."

Also, I should mention that the dialogue in these last two chapters has been particularly well done. Easy to imagine the characters saying the things they say.

The plot thickens. Ah, Steed suspects the old "get a person to speak certain phrases so we can cobble together and use a phony recording" trick. I'm surprised Emma wouldn't pick up on that one :)

Dear Mia, I am so pleased that you took the time to make these thoughtful points. The acknowledgment was heartfelt: I have enjoyed your work for quite a while now and I continue to visit your site. Now that I am back to some writing, I'll gladly polish a few rough edges and fill in some gaps (I freely admit that I bit off more than I expected when the first hint of a plot bloomed into this full-size creature). English isn't my first language so I very much welcome the feedback on vocabulary!

I made time this weekend to come back and start from the beginning -- hard to believe it's three years since you first started posting and I read the first few chapters!

Your acknowledgement of my stories -- and "Two's Company" in particular -- took me by surprise, and is much appreciated.

The plot of Fatal Harvest is delightfully convoluted and in keeping with an Avengers tale. And your economical writing style lends itself to both the sophistication and mystery of the canon. You provide the sartorial and visual details that are a hallmark of The Avengers without overwhelming us with florid descriptions.

However, sometimes that brevity is just a bit too terse -- that is, sometimes the scarcity of detail loses me. I wonder, "what conversation with Mother? Oh, I guess Steed must have spoken to him that morning, although it wasn't mentioned in the narrative about Steed's activities." And sometimes I'm confused about motives: why did Steed ask Emma to gather evidence in the dead man's flat and leave it for him to collect? Why not have her take it with her? And did Steed collect it, with the Special Unit guys watching the place? And why, oh why, did Emma leave her disguise hanging in the dead man's closet?

Finally, and I hope you don't preceive me to be harsh, because I wouldn't take the time to critique at this level if I didn't enjoy your work, a thought about word usage. Small words are missing, others are superfluous, and some are simply misused. In one scene Steed has a note "handed out to him" as he enters the minstry. Typically papers are "handed out" to groups of people, such as students in a classroom. When one person is the recipient, the note is simply "handed to him." In another, Mis McKay "recuperates" her driver's license from a ministry secretary. Recuperate does indeed have a meaning in common with recover, but in this context, recover is correct, and recuperate is wrong. Sometimes a thesaurus is not your friend, unless you check the actual definition of the new word too. I hope you don't preceive this as nit-picking. Launguage is critical to my enjoyment of a story, and these small lapses distrct me from your otherwise enjoyable story.

So when will we see more (which is hardly a fair question from someone who has not posted anything new in months)?

Mia

I've drawn a lot of inspiration from this story over the past six months. It's one of the most literary treatments of the Steed/Emma relationship, and I hope my Steed/Emma stories will approach this level of sophistication one day. Plus, Expefarmax is just a way cool name... :)

Another great chapter! I like how you set things up in one chapter for what we assume will be exciting events coming up in the next (except that I feel like a kid impatiently waiting for the next installment). So...as usual, I'm very much looking forward to more. Thanks.

Excellent chapter. You've got a way of keeping the story and the characters so true to the show, but at the same time you show us depths of their characters and their relationship that we don't see on the screen (we know it's there though). I love Steed's metaphors toward the end of the chapter, closely following a great one from Emma. Looking forward to more.