 Jessie07 2008-06-18 . chapter 2Cool story!! I really like it a lot!! I do have one question though, since this seems to take place after the movie is bumblebee's car form the new camaro or do you have him as being the old one still? Just curious. Anyway, keep up the great work and please update soon!! |
 sonofan8track 2008-05-15 . chapter 2This was excellent. I throughly enjoyed every bit of it. You have everyone down perfectly, from their personalities to their "voices". I can "hear" them as I read, which is very important to me. (I may have mentioned this before.) I love how you get right Sam's tendency to stutter, and Judy's aggressive behavior. I really liked the Witwicky family in the film, and I'm glad to see them get the focus they deserve.
I loved so many lines, but this: "So saying, he popped the door lock bravely doing its job in the face of a completely open window, tossed the bags in the back seat, and climbed in." This is great comedy. It also illustrates an important little clue to Bumblebee's true identity, since giant alien robots need hardly worry about getting stolen.
You raise several excellent, thought-provoking points in this story, so please excuse me if I go off on a tangent. There's that old storybook/Hollywood trope, which says that children and adolescents want to read/see other kids have great heroic adventures, but that no sane fictional parents would ever let them. So, the usual thing to do is make the parents either dead, otherwise conveniently absent, or clueless idiots. None of these options are appealing to me, and I've always thought there had to be other ways to include alive, available parents who weren't stupid in the storyline.
You've managed it wonderfully here, showing that Sam's parents are not stupid, they have caught on, but they have their doubts. What sane person goes around regularly believing in alien robots, they'd think, or having Ron recall how his own relative was once thought crazy works really well in this story. Sam even has some leeway with his heroics: soon he'll be eighteen, and he has an alien protector in Bumblebee to set his parents' mind somewhat at ease.
I'd much rather read this than to have Sam's parents killed off or disappear. After all, as Wilde said, "To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." |