 Maggy 2004-12-14 . chapter 5This is a terrific story. Your plots and sublot are engaging, your take on the characters (including Bert and Agnes) is excellent. I especially appreciate all the "in" jokes and dialogue reminiscent of specific episodes.
I notice you don't have any other reviews yet, so I'm going to take the plunge and offer what I hope is some constructive criticism. Unless I missed something at the beginning, there was no warning that what I was going to read was not "conventional fanfic" in the sense of having a continuous prose narrative interlaced with dialogue. Consequently, on the one hand, I want to suggest that you either label it as a "quasi-screenplay" or rewrite it following the conventions of written fiction. The places where you "take shortcuts" smack of this being a draft rather than a finished piece, as do the inconsistencies of verb tenses, the typographical errors, etc.
On the other hand (with the exception of the typos), one of the hallmarks of the _Moonlighting_ tv show was their unconventional approach to presenting their stories, so perhaps I am doing you a disservice. If so, I apologize. Still, some of the breaks are distracting.
Either way, you would surely benefit from the services of a beta-reader.
I look forward to reading more of your work. You are obviously talented and the fact that you wrote a five-chapter story about a long-cancelled television show means you are also persistent. These two qualities are a *requirement* for success. :-)
Thanks again for the pleasure of another visit to the Blue Moon universe. |