I hadn't read this one before. I thought it was good, but probably not so good that I'll read it again soon. The whodunit was decent but it wasn't too hard to suspect the culprit (there is a really really limited set of suspects, and you just know the new visitor was supposed to be a red herring). I would have liked a little more connection between the murders and the post-col world; I'm not even sure I know what I mean, but it felt a little disjointed or something.
The writing was good, I thought, not too much or too little in the way of descriptions. I think my favorite part was the illustrations, actually. I kept scrolling to see when the next one was coming up.
A little rant One thing that annoyed me (and has tended to annoy me in some other fic) was some of the treatment of Scully's pregnancy, on a few fronts. The story seemed to pretty much ignore the question of how did it happen (despite the brief mention of "the fact that she shouldn't have been pregnant to begin with" and calling it a miracle). This is a pretty big thing to just kind of side-step. Maybe the pregnancy was basically used to give the killer a reason to target Scully, but that's kind of convenient. The story also promoted the idea that she shouldn't be doing any exercise/physical labor because she is pregnant; it does say that "it had been dicey as it was just getting to this point" with no further explanation (pregnancy complications? reference to the miraculous nature of the conception?), but for most pregnancies, there is no reason one can't do physical things in moderation. If there is a reason in Scully's case, we aren't told about it. And lastly, when Scully is running with Shan from Denny, we get told "this sort of thing was exactly what stimulated a miscarriage, but she couldn't stop." She's 8 months pregnant - almost to term; it can't be a miscarriage. If she's having contractions, it's either false labor or slightly premature labor. I don't know, I'm making it a bigger deal than it is, but I don't like all of the outdated ideas and falsehoods that surround pregnancy or reading things that tend to reinforce them. As a caveat, I have no medical expertise related to pregnancy or otherwise, so maybe I'm wrong - correct me please. :) done with rant
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Date: 2014-05-11 07:08 pm (UTC)The writing was good, I thought, not too much or too little in the way of descriptions. I think my favorite part was the illustrations, actually. I kept scrolling to see when the next one was coming up.
A little rant
One thing that annoyed me (and has tended to annoy me in some other fic) was some of the treatment of Scully's pregnancy, on a few fronts. The story seemed to pretty much ignore the question of how did it happen (despite the brief mention of "the fact that she shouldn't have been pregnant to begin with" and calling it a miracle). This is a pretty big thing to just kind of side-step. Maybe the pregnancy was basically used to give the killer a reason to target Scully, but that's kind of convenient. The story also promoted the idea that she shouldn't be doing any exercise/physical labor because she is pregnant; it does say that "it had been dicey as it was just getting to this point" with no further explanation (pregnancy complications? reference to the miraculous nature of the conception?), but for most pregnancies, there is no reason one can't do physical things in moderation. If there is a reason in Scully's case, we aren't told about it. And lastly, when Scully is running with Shan from Denny, we get told "this sort of thing was exactly what stimulated a miscarriage, but she couldn't stop." She's 8 months pregnant - almost to term; it can't be a miscarriage. If she's having contractions, it's either false labor or slightly premature labor. I don't know, I'm making it a bigger deal than it is, but I don't like all of the outdated ideas and falsehoods that surround pregnancy or reading things that tend to reinforce them. As a caveat, I have no medical expertise related to pregnancy or otherwise, so maybe I'm wrong - correct me please. :)
done with rant
Still, on balance, I'm glad I read the story.