Subject: Re: [FFML] [FF] Akane loves P-chan!
From: bastian@enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de (Sebastian Weinberg)
Date: 10/31/1996, 6:43 PM
To: Fanfiction ML

 On Sun, 27 Oct 1996 00:28:09 -0500 (EST) WebDragon wrote:

: 
:                               Akane loves P-chan!!
: 

:         "P-chan!  Come here, baby!"

:         He felt, rather than saw, something hard and sharp cleaving into his
: skull and splitting him into two, chopping through the ribs and spilling his
: entrails and brains out in a gory burst of blood.  The last thing he saw
: before the blackness took him was an image of Akane looking down at him with
: psychotic eyes - and gripping the handle of a double-edged axe.
: 
: 
: --------------------------------------------------------------------------
: 
:         This is a shockfic, BTW.
: 
: BWA HA HA HA H AH AH AHAHAH AH AH AH AH AH AHAHA AHAHAHAHAHHA AHA !

Hmm, yeah it is.  What a pity, it could have been a good one.

I spent all of this fic, waiting for the other shoe to drop, and
when it did, it was a total anti-climax.  Honestly, what was your
intention?  A completely out-of-the-blue axe strike followed by an
abrupt ending is not exactly terrifying or horrifc, of whatever
this was supposed to be.  I *might* have been vaguely shocking if
the reader wasn't led to expect a surprising twist at the end,
right from the beginning.  As surprising twists go, this was a
pretty poor one:  It was neither foreshadowed nor explained, nor
did it cast a new light on what went on in the fic before.  It's
just, "Oh, she killed him.  And she's psychotic, too - Well
La-dee-dah."

Sorry, thumbs down from me.


Sebastian
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