Jane
09/13/2011 08:41 am

Persuasion is my favourite as well, it's supposed to be the book that most reflects her life. I've got a couple of versions but the best is the one with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds. After that it's got to be Twelfth Night, hey nonny nonny.

"The best is the one with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds."

Here, here! Ciaran Hinds is by far the best Wentworth (he's also a damn good Mr. Rochester, honey!). The other version I have is the Sally Hawkins one and I think I have a very old BBC one that I haven't watched yet. I'm a huge Sally Hawkins fan, of Happy Go Lucky fame, but the Wentowrth in that one is not right, and Anthony Head is sadly not quite right either, and come to think of it, the only character who I prefer in that one is the young Mr. Elliot. 

By the way, my real name is not Jane.  It's just wishful thinking.  ;-)

xanfan23
09/13/2011 01:52 am
Excellent chapter - everyone should have a kit.  Look forward to understanding these slayers in the warehouse. What's their trauma as Cordelia might say.

Wonderful cliffhanger ending. Will enjoy reading from the first when its all done for sure!!

thanks
Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying it. :-)

slaymesoftly
09/13/2011 12:49 am
Hmmm I may need to go back and read earlier stuff. I'm not remembering Max or anything about him. I presume Buffy thought about or mentioned him at some point and I've just forgotten it. I sense some major angst coming up... I wonder what Spike heard? 

(Really glad to see an update of this story. I've been watching for it. So many of the other stories I'd been following have been finished. I was feeling deprived.) :)
Max is a newly-introduced character. Buffy ran into him unexpectedly, and now so has the reader. ;-)  He's an ex-boyfriend, so there was no reason for him to be introduced previously.

I don't know how major the angst will be. We'll see...

Thanks. :-)

Jane
09/12/2011 08:46 pm

Happiness is an update, yay yay yay. You know I feel like Captain Harville in Persuasion. Remember that bit where he tells Anne how much he misses his family whilst at sea. And how he calculates how soon it'll be before he can see them again and pretends to deceive himself by saying I won't see them until such a day, while secretly hoping he'll see them 12 hours sooner. That's me. As soon as I've read an update I try to work out when there'll be another. Taking into account the fact that you've got an actual 'life' which unlike mine,  involves life and death decisions. I don't know how you do it, but I'm so glad you do.
Great update, more twists than Chubby Checker. Didn't expect the revelation about Sonny and Angel, wow, though I did wonder why she was so anti Buffy. Plus bumping into the ex, yeeps, you certainly like to keep us on our toes. Absolutely brilliant, no pressure, but really looking forward to more. I love it, I love it, I love it.     

Jane, you're so good to me!

How did you know that I *love* that line from Persuasion? The book is wonderful and I watch two different BBC versions of that book all the time  - even more than I watch the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle P&P. Would that I could ever come close to writing a paragraph as delightful as one of Jane's!

I'm so glad you're still enjoying the story. It really makes it all worth while when readers enjoy it as much as you seem to. Thanks. :-)