Everyone should love Atia. She's a bit like Irina Derevko in that respect.
Which is why I was a bit nervous when not hearing anything from you, but I figured you might be away from the 'net for a while.
*sigh* Away from everything that isn't work, really. I should be back mid-June, I think (I hope), but... anyway, I've managed to drop the ball on quite a few things, lj- and real-life-wise, and I really am v. sorry about that. :(
Re: Amy Tan - when thinking of a name that would encapsulate "mother-dauther relationship", she at once came to mind!
God, yes. I was thinking of rereading The Joy Luck Club soon, actually, and this has settled the matter. :)
And yes, I think you're right about Octavia. It's very evident in your original story - which btw I loved to pieces - and I was so glad Rome made her and Atia end up the way they did.
It's one of the few mother-daughter relationships on tv that actually works for me, all the way through the series. Sydney&Irina worked up until the travesty of late S5, and I guess to a lesser degree Buffy & Joyce (but Joyce was a mother cast in a very different mould), but most tv seemes to be concerned with the relationships between fathers and sons, or fathers and daughters, and don't seem to feature the mother to any great degree.
...
Which is something that someone should write stuff on. (By someone, of course, I mean you.)
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Date: 2008-04-27 12:15 pm (UTC)Everyone should love Atia. She's a bit like Irina Derevko in that respect.
Which is why I was a bit nervous when not hearing anything from you, but I figured you might be away from the 'net for a while.
*sigh* Away from everything that isn't work, really. I should be back mid-June, I think (I hope), but... anyway, I've managed to drop the ball on quite a few things, lj- and real-life-wise, and I really am v. sorry about that. :(
Re: Amy Tan - when thinking of a name that would encapsulate "mother-dauther relationship", she at once came to mind!
God, yes. I was thinking of rereading The Joy Luck Club soon, actually, and this has settled the matter. :)
And yes, I think you're right about Octavia. It's very evident in your original story - which btw I loved to pieces - and I was so glad Rome made her and Atia end up the way they did.
It's one of the few mother-daughter relationships on tv that actually works for me, all the way through the series. Sydney&Irina worked up until the travesty of late S5, and I guess to a lesser degree Buffy & Joyce (but Joyce was a mother cast in a very different mould), but most tv seemes to be concerned with the relationships between fathers and sons, or fathers and daughters, and don't seem to feature the mother to any great degree.
...
Which is something that someone should write stuff on. (By someone, of course, I mean you.)