OUaTiM fic the Third

[tiggymalvern]

More El/Sands Mexico fic - following on from Wires and Strung. Sands got what he wanted, but that doesn't mean he has to stop there.

58,000+ words, and hopefully fulfilling the quota of offensive language, blasphemy, violence and smut that a Mexico fic of any length requires XD

Frayed

Warning: My usual fandom American betas are snowed under with life business right now, so this hasn't been filtered by them - any stray Britishisms entirely my fault, and if you point them out, I'll gratefully fix 'em!

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[arabwel.livejournal.com]

I know I am, ah, slightly blatherty about it right now *blush*

Yerah - OuaTiM did a bit f a disservice to him that way.... the whole "ok, why is RR sticking 3 movies' worth of stuff in this?" thing kind of minimized El's part :(

that's true... the backstory gets told in fflashbacks, so it is not a horrible hardship to insert one or two involving FIdeo... plus, come to think of it, when Lorenzo gets dragged into helping his cousin, he could easily enough drag FIdeo along... *plotttyplotplot* either that, or FIdeo will die. *sigh*

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I partly blame Tarantino for that - he was the one egging Rodriguez on to finish the trilogy with a 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'-style epic, but there's a reason that's a three hour film! Trying to cover that kind of scope in two was always going to result in an interesting failure.

Poor Fideo - his role in a great many fanfics does seem to be to die and cause Angst! Though Lorenzo takes that role too, often enough. But then Rodriguez did rather start the trend in killing off El's sidekicks, I suppose XD

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

Yeah - sometimes, their brainbabies just arre ugly *le sigh* Wonder what OuaTiM would have been like, had it been 2-parter like Kill Bill...

I know I have killed him off oonce *Blush* but that fic.. is kind of spcial. (and hs been int he worls since 2004, too, except that the first 2 parts are already somewhere oput there) it's a Lori/Sands fic where the poor ghuy has been on his own for a while cause FIdeo offed hismelf and El has disappeared off the face of the earth...

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

It would have helped the film a lot to have had more motivation and characterisation for people like Ajedrez - as it is, she's just a cipher, and seems pretty random. It's difficult for an audience to engage in any way, positive or negative, with characters who only have a few brief scenes in which they recite the plot.

Fideo does seem to like killing himself in fics too, yeah XD I guess it fits, since he's killing himself the slow way in canon. I really don't envy Lorenzo the Fideo-babysitting job, can't blame El for bailing on that one....