Wen, in my opinion your knowledge of the medical field is getting in the way of your enjoyment of the fic.
Nah, not really. This is actually how I have fun in real life, critiquing bad, inaccurate medicine and science on TV. I have much lower expectations for fanfiction than I do for TV--I can't stand House, for example. It's just that I know how medical research is conducted--I work at a research hospital--and this ain't it. Yeah, if her blood had taken on abnormal, never-before-seen characteristics that would be huge. That would be Nobel prize material. But in this story, she isn't the test subject. Neil thinks that she's just going to be eliminated once "the test" is over; that's one of the things that drives him to free them both. THIS MAKES NO SENSE IF HER BLOOD IS WHAT IS BEING TESTED. THESE ARE SOME DAMN CRAZY RESEARCHERS.
Then again, I could say the same of the black-oil test subjects, yet they seemed to leave them bound under chicken wire.
Yes, it looks dramatic on TV but like so much of what 1013 did with the myth-arc, it made no sense. So in that respect, these mad scientists fit in just fine.
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Date: 2011-08-17 12:27 am (UTC)Nah, not really. This is actually how I have fun in real life, critiquing bad, inaccurate medicine and science on TV. I have much lower expectations for fanfiction than I do for TV--I can't stand House, for example. It's just that I know how medical research is conducted--I work at a research hospital--and this ain't it. Yeah, if her blood had taken on abnormal, never-before-seen characteristics that would be huge. That would be Nobel prize material. But in this story, she isn't the test subject. Neil thinks that she's just going to be eliminated once "the test" is over; that's one of the things that drives him to free them both. THIS MAKES NO SENSE IF HER BLOOD IS WHAT IS BEING TESTED. THESE ARE SOME DAMN CRAZY RESEARCHERS.
Then again, I could say the same of the black-oil test subjects, yet they seemed to leave them bound under chicken wire.
Yes, it looks dramatic on TV but like so much of what 1013 did with the myth-arc, it made no sense. So in that respect, these mad scientists fit in just fine.