This thing grew into such a massive self-indulgent project, The best kind ;D
I'm just glad there are other folks out there interested enough to read the thing through. ^^; Always!!
My not-so-secret ulterior motive in writing this whole thing out is to see if I couldn't maybe convince a few more ficcers to work Sarah or Heather (or, heck, even Gracie or Gemma!) into their stories.
Hee, good motive! Next time I write a case fic, I'll have to do that. Humm... {contemplates what I already have in the queue}
I'd already started running into Lisa Rogers in fic by the time I met her in the show, but gosh, she did not make much impression on me.
When I started the rewatch last year, the first two seasons I went through rapidly. When I got to the third and fourth... not so quickly. Reading (and rereading) all the fanfiction goes much faster. I think I devoured most of the archives within a couple of months.
Most of the fics, especially the early ones, tend to concentrate very heavily on the fourth season logistics, even when they retrograde them back to earlier season episodes. Which drives me a little bit buggy. But Lisa seems to be part of that phenomenon. She's in a ton of fics as Waverly's assistant, but realistically, wasn't for most of it.
My personal theory on that, which I think I've expounded on before was ... {rummage} Yes, we did talk about that. The lack of availability for rewatch and fans putting things in stone without access. Also, the episodes that describe both UNCLE inner workings and background on characters all tend to be later ones, as the early ones never bothered to - the early ones were all about "just run with us on this" and everybody did. But fans wanted canon to work with so later season tends to be referenced more because it *had* reference. Even when that reference contradicts early show info.
Sadly, Lisa falls into that, and Sarah falls out. Some of her better scenes too (Sarah's) were in episodes Illya wasn't in much (The Love Affair), and even myself I like watching the ones both I and N are in together, rather than just one or the other. So fans miss out.
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The best kind ;D
I'm just glad there are other folks out there interested enough to read the thing through. ^^;
Always!!
My not-so-secret ulterior motive in writing this whole thing out is to see if I couldn't maybe convince a few more ficcers to work Sarah or Heather (or, heck, even Gracie or Gemma!) into their stories.
Hee, good motive! Next time I write a case fic, I'll have to do that. Humm... {contemplates what I already have in the queue}
I'd already started running into Lisa Rogers in fic by the time I met her in the show, but gosh, she did not make much impression on me.
When I started the rewatch last year, the first two seasons I went through rapidly. When I got to the third and fourth... not so quickly. Reading (and rereading) all the fanfiction goes much faster. I think I devoured most of the archives within a couple of months.
Most of the fics, especially the early ones, tend to concentrate very heavily on the fourth season logistics, even when they retrograde them back to earlier season episodes. Which drives me a little bit buggy. But Lisa seems to be part of that phenomenon. She's in a ton of fics as Waverly's assistant, but realistically, wasn't for most of it.
My personal theory on that, which I think I've expounded on before was ... {rummage} Yes, we did talk about that. The lack of availability for rewatch and fans putting things in stone without access. Also, the episodes that describe both UNCLE inner workings and background on characters all tend to be later ones, as the early ones never bothered to - the early ones were all about "just run with us on this" and everybody did. But fans wanted canon to work with so later season tends to be referenced more because it *had* reference. Even when that reference contradicts early show info.
Sadly, Lisa falls into that, and Sarah falls out. Some of her better scenes too (Sarah's) were in episodes Illya wasn't in much (The Love Affair), and even myself I like watching the ones both I and N are in together, rather than just one or the other. So fans miss out.