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PadawanKitara
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2/29/04 2:56pm
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RE: Through a Glass, Darkly (Buffy/SW crossover. New post 29/02/04!)
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That was well worth the wait; a two month wait, but it was a wonderful addition to an otherwise gloomy day.
I just loved Barin's description of Thom, runaway mouth and all 
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TIEPilot051999
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2/29/04 9:13pm
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Thank you to TIEPilot051999 for a very prompt beta-read.
No problem. 
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Healer_Leona
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3/2/04 5:35am
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Fighting was always fun. Being on the winning side was a bonus. -- Spike to a 'T'. LOL! Funny, but who else but Spike would put up so patiently with Dawn. I think pair them together, in the series as well as here made her extreme adolescent moodiness much more tolerable. Yay, Barin's asking about his wayward padawan!!
All in all a very fufilling post, kinda leaves me feeling like I'd just watched a brand new Buffy episode. Thanks HaiGan!!
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Ty-gon Jinn
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3/10/04 10:12pm
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Okay, this fic was recommended to me by Knight_Dilettante, and I have to say that this is the best crossover I've ever read (and possibly the only crossover to which I've ever replied)...
The idea of SW characters coming through the Hellmouth is great, and you've got the characterizations of the Buffy characters DOWN. I love your Spike, and Xander, and Buffy herself...
But I have to say the best part of this fic is my favorite Buffy character: Anya. You CRACK ME UP. 
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Jemmiah
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3/11/04 10:09am
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It IS easily the best crossover on the boards, I totally agree - and dare I venture the best I've read anywhere! And was actually my first contact with Buffy, which I'd steadfastly refused to watch until that point.
Great story, HaiGan!
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Ty-gon Jinn
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3/11/04 11:22am
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I myself have not seen much Buffy but know quite a bit about it because one of my friends from school (now at college in Walla Walla Washington) is a Buffy/Angel fanatic who filled me in on anything I didn't get, so I can sympathize with people who don't get every little reference, but I'm able to follow the Buffy plot in this, and I'm loving it.
I'm especially glad this was started in time to have Joyce in it. I have to admit, though -- and this is going to sound bad -- I'm also glad there's not much Tara in it. Of course, Tara's so meek that unless Willow is a leading figure, you're not going to notice her, but I never like gay-Willow and was actually rather glad when I heard that Tara was going to buy the farm, as it were...
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Mistress_Renata
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3/11/04 7:06pm
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Oh, you all got my hopes up; I thought she'd given us another post!
Like Jemmiah, I had never seen a Buffy episode or had any interest in it until Hai Gan started this. Fortunately, my roommate is a Buffy FANATIC, who videotaped every single Buffy episode from Day 1. It took three weekends (and one 4-day bout on the couch with a stomach flu) but I watched every single one to catch up (and she even numbered them in chronological order for me!)
And now it's gone. Angel is but a pale substitute. Come on, Hai Gan, you're our last hope!
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TIEPilot051999
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3/11/04 7:13pm
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Angel is but a pale substitute.
And it's gone, too. 
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Ty-gon Jinn
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3/11/04 8:15pm
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Yeah, but it wasn't that hard to see Angel's imminent demise. The reintroduction of Spike was pretty obviously jumping the shark, as it were.
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Mistress_Renata
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3/12/04 6:10pm
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The shark was jumped when Connor arrived. Anytime a TV series has a wedding or a pregnancy... you know they're struggling.  Hm, if they'd introduced a Jedi Knight... Man, I wish I could have seen Jonathan & Andrew meet Barin!!!
Haaaaaaai Gaaaaaan....
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TIEPilot051999
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3/12/04 7:36pm
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Man, I wish I could have seen Jonathan & Andrew meet Barin!!!
Maybe you will...
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Healer_Leona
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3/14/04 8:03am
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Andrew meeting a Jedi... just the idea is great. He'd probably faint. You could always count on Buffy for a weekly SW reference.
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Tanith
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3/15/04 5:49am
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-Jonathan and Andrew meet Barin-  That would be just too funny if the uber-geeks met a real jedi. I think that they'd wet themselves if it happened. It's a shame they're the next season
A-ha - so Jemmiah may be persuaded to watch a Buffy episode  (runs and gets video collection off shelf). If you ever want to borrow, just email and I'll get them over to you.
It's a shame Angel is being cancelled - last year was awful with the Jasmine/Connor storylines, but this year is looking up. We're a few weeks behind in the UK, but I want to know what Lindsay is up to. Good to see him back.
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Ty-gon Jinn
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3/19/04 11:26am
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Anytime a TV series has a wedding or a pregnancy...
I guess you could say that, Renata, and you're definitely right about the signs of a struggling show, but I'm not sure if that's actually jumping the shark... Angel made it a whole other season, obviously, since the whole Connor storyline was last year and has already hit syndication on TNT. Mad About You survived two years after the birth of Mabel. Grace of Will & Grace found and married Leo, but I don't think they've jumped the shark yet.
That's just one more thing I love about the X-Files... they start wrapping things up for the end of the show, so they kill off a set of beloved secondary characters and call the episode Jump the Shark...
Anyway, back to Buffy...
Post, Hai-Gan, post!
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HaiGan
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3/22/04 9:15am
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I'll come back and 'talk', as it were, later. In the meantime, it's short, but it's a post!
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"Ow! Bloody hell! Will you stop that?" The words had become Spike's new mantra. Carrying the struggling Dawn called for a physical subtlety Spike had never bothered to develop: exerting sufficient force to restrain her without hurting her enough to give himself an incapacitating migraine courtesy of the chip. Now given a motive, the vampire was learning fast; but between the combination of Dawn-inflicted injuries and a low-grade headache he was finding things a strain.
"Big sis' will not be happy," the vampire thought aloud, with masterful understatement. Buffy would be so far away from happy that happiness would vanish right over the event horizon. Inevitably, it would be Spike who got the blame. Regardless of the fact that he'd had no way to know that the Nibblet was the Key, and very little reason to guess that she'd react this way to the news. In fact, Spike reasoned, if he hadn't followed along when Dawn took herself off to the magic shop, she'd have had nobody there to look after her and take her home.
Would the Slayer see things that way, though? Never. Not even if Spike tied her up first in the hopes of getting her to listen for once. Chances were, this time she'd stake him as soon as she saw him, what with him turning up on the doorstep with the Nibblet in this state.
Much as he liked the Nibblet... liked the Nibblet? That wouldn't do. Handy as it was to have the Key eating out of his hands... currently eating his hands, but he was generalising here... to have the Key thinking he was her best mate, he wasn't prepared to risk a staking. He'd take her around the back of the Slayer's place, and pop her in through the door. She was making enough of a racket, they'd hear her, but Spike could take himself off before they realised he was there too.
That is, he'd pop her inside if he could detach her teeth from his thumb...
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In the alley that was not unlike several others among Sunnydale's not-so-sunny back streets, silence reigned. It was a rather protracted silence, as the vampire known as Eric tried to work out what to say in order to avoid meeting a short and very permanent end.
"Erm... not ringing a bell here, yet," he finally tried, apologetically. "I'msureIcanthinkofsomething!" he added hurriedly, in case he'd just said the wrong thing. "Anything else to help me recognise him?"
Barin considered the question carefully. "He might be wearing Jedi clothing," he added, with some reluctance.
That seemed to jog Eric's memory quite effectively. He looked surprised and even more worried, and a trace of respect appeared that had not been there before. "So the crazy bitch wasn't so crazy... I haven't seen him, but I know someone who has. Well, I say I know her, but I only met her the once, see, so I don't really know her at all-" he gulped as he felt the fingers tighten around his neck. "-er, have you heard of Drusilla?"
"Let us pretend that I have not," said Barin in quiet, patient tones that promised not to remain patient for long.
"She's crazy. Nuts. But powerful, mind, you don't want to mess with her. She hasn't been around for a while, then she shows up a couple of days ago, and leaves again. She was going on about a... a juicy, fresh star-boy with a nasty, biting sunshine-stick. Something had had a go at her. Her arm was burned. I don't think she killed him," Eric put in, quickly. "She was whining about not having had her tea and cakes, and the nasty shiny woman chasing her away. She, uh, Drusilla, was supposed to be doing something here- I don't know what!" Eric added, eyeing his captor, "but she was going to come back later instead. I don't know any more. I told you, she's a loony. She doesn't talk straight."
"Drusilla would be a vampire?" Barin guessed.
Eric nodded.
"Where is she now?"
"I don't know... I don't know! I don't know!" Eric's voice dropped to a relieved whimper as the Jedi abruptly let go.
"Thank you," said Barin, simply. "If you should come across the boy, please bring him to the Magic Shop. Any news as to his whereabouts and you can find me there. Any news about Drusilla, please find me and tell me. I would be most grateful. And do please pass the message along: Thom is not to be harmed."
"Anything that does that to Drusilla gets left alone!" Eric exclaimed.
Barin merely nodded and turned to leave. Eric was too surprised to do anything but stare at his departing back and reflect that anyone who could afford to make threats so politely wasn't someone Eric wanted to annoy.
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