 Kayleigh-DT 2008-04-17 . chapter 32Loved the story. Wish you would update it (it was marked as complete, or I wouldn't have read it, because I'm really impatient *g*)
I feel nobody profits from "This rocks" comments, so I always try to point out some things that could be improved. I hope you don't take it the wrong way, as I said, I really loved your story.
- I believe "Number-Six" is officially referred to as Caprica Six. Either way your use of the ID is confusing, as you use the same ID for multiple "instances" of her, often making it hard for me to figure out if you were talking about Savannah or one of the other Sixes.
- You have too many characters that are featured prominently that I had trouble keeping track off. Especially the ones in London always gave me trouble. The gigantic family didn't make it much easier either. Since you use their names a lot, instead of descriptions (like "The young woman", "The athletic doctor", etc), I can't put even the most basic pictures on more than maybe three of your characters.
- Too many story elements. The story contains enough for three different stories. Especially the parts about the Greys serves very little story purpose and are somewhat distracting. Adding to that very very little actual scenes on the Galactica makes me wonder if this story wouldn't have been better as non-fanfiction.
- Mary Sue. If you don't know the term, you should look it up. In short, it's when the author puts a character (usually a glorified image of himself) in a story that is always right, always does the right thing, has incredible powers, that have no drawback, always work, always solve every problem themselves, never get in trouble, etc. Basically, Beth is absolutely perfect. She does nothing wrong, she wins every confrontation, she is always right, she single handedly saves the world, without even having to try. It's a bit boring. When the President tried to pressure her, I wasn't curious how it would end in the least bit, because I knew she would stand up to him, and win (of course). That's not a good thing. Even Superman couldn't talk to Lois and had Kryptonite.
- In a lot of scenes, it seems like you were too lazy to deal with realism: Beth tells a lot of people (pretty much everyone she meets, and with her 100% success rate, she should be a bloody world wide giant media star by now) that she is a psychic, and everyone just goes "oh, ok". Nobody doubts her (which wouldn't even be a problem, because she is always right, and always instantly understands her visions), nobody is freaked out, nobody tries to abuse her powers, nobody alerts the press. It's the same thing with the Cylons - nobody goes "OH MY GOD? A CYLON? IM CALLING HOMELAND SECURITY RIGHT NOW!" when she tells them. They are all just like "Meh, you better be careful I guess. Lets go have dinner."
- Insane priorities that just don't make sense. Cylons who committed genocide against a hugely advanced human civilization, killing billions ? Yeah, let's deal with that after I talked to my patient. Base stars in orbit around Earth ? I'll call you back, I have to do laundry. This is the fate of the world she is dealing with, and she just acts like it's all bureaucratic annoyances that can wait until she's done with watching TV or whatever she prefers to do.
I hope you take the above (if you even read this far) the right way - as hints from one writer to another that there is a lot you could improve, to make your story not just fun to read, but something your readers will remember years from now.
ps.: Please get a spell and grammar checker. Seriously. |