Ooo, thank you! *runs off to read* All of these are new to me, apart from Faustus y el rey Midas, which I spotted on AO3 and thought looked interesting but didn't get to reading yet, and The Price which I was a little hesitant to try out of fear to be disappointed (I'm picky on the R ratings) but will definitely be giving a try now.
As for the Ben/Rousseau fic - are you referring to the one that starts out quite promising, with a pondering Ben outside the church and a few good interactions with Alex and Rousseau, then around the halfway mark takes about five lines of dialogue for a rushed yes-you-stole-my-daughter-and-then-let-her-get-killed-and-got-me-killed-as-well-but-I-totally-forgive-you sort of thing, followed by Great Sex? Well, no, not even that - I think it was more like "It's okay, shut up, let's have sex now"? Because if so, I ran into it too, just today, and was, shall we say, slightly disappointed. Even more because the author did seem to have a good grasp on both writing and the characters, and that story could have been so much more if (s)he had just taken the time to actually, you know, tackle some issues before getting on with the sex.
And I'm surprised that my own natural post-finale reflex, i.e. to tie up the story of the one character the writers hadn't given closure, wasn't shared by at least some other people writing Lost fic. I was sure I was rehashing half a dozen fics that'd been written before, but - seems not, then.
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Date: 2010-11-07 07:23 pm (UTC)As for the Ben/Rousseau fic - are you referring to the one that starts out quite promising, with a pondering Ben outside the church and a few good interactions with Alex and Rousseau, then around the halfway mark takes about five lines of dialogue for a rushed yes-you-stole-my-daughter-and-then-let-her-get-killed-and-got-me-killed-as-well-but-I-totally-forgive-you sort of thing, followed by Great Sex? Well, no, not even that - I think it was more like "It's okay, shut up, let's have sex now"? Because if so, I ran into it too, just today, and was, shall we say, slightly disappointed. Even more because the author did seem to have a good grasp on both writing and the characters, and that story could have been so much more if (s)he had just taken the time to actually, you know, tackle some issues before getting on with the sex.
And I'm surprised that my own natural post-finale reflex, i.e. to tie up the story of the one character the writers hadn't given closure, wasn't shared by at least some other people writing Lost fic. I was sure I was rehashing half a dozen fics that'd been written before, but - seems not, then.