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9/9 c1 73BrokenKestral
One of the things I really enjoyed about Civil War was how both sides had a point. I would not trust Ironman to lead the Avengers without accountability (at that point). And I would trust Captain America to. Which makes both right, in an oversimplified way.
9/8 c1 35ScribeofHeroes
I like this, I love the poem too. It's been one of my favorites for a long time and this piece and the situation it's based on fit perfectly. :)

God bless
ScribeofHeroes
9/7 c1 159Qoheleth
Dear Sophia:

Conceive of my delight when I saw this on the Just In section. A trans-categorical one-shot series, based on a classic poem and illustrative of moral virtues? I don't think you could have concocted a quicker way to my heart if you'd tried. (Which, on some level, I rather wonder whether you did.)

So far as execution goes, though, I have to feel that this misses the target. A gimmick like this ought to be an opportunity to really delve into the heart of the spotlighted principle - to really show us what it means, for a man in general and Steve Rogers in particular, to respect his detractors even as he identifies them as being in the wrong. Here, it feels like little more than a cursory retread of some of the film's most elementary themes - well enough executed, to be sure, but lacking in the kind of heft it ought to have. (Also, I thought Sam was an airman, not a soldier.) Though I'll say it's at least more relevant to its theme than the first one; I couldn't see at all, in that case, how those about Aragorn could have been described as losing their heads and blaming it on him. (Indeed, given the context of that story and the Quenya name for Middle-Earth, the Kipling passage that seems most appropriate comes from another poem entirely. Remember? "Those who have passed to the further shore / May be hailed - at a price - on the road to En-dor…")

But enough of that. Let's get to the fun part - which is, of course, speculating about which characters might be starring in the later stories. Apart from matching the various sections of the poem, there seem to be two requirements: they have to be striking icons of manhood, and the year of the action has to be specified canonically. Well, no fandom that I know of lays more emphasis on the year of each installment than "Babylon 5", and John Sheridan is as emphatically a man as any character I can think of, so I certainly hope he's going to show up in one of these. Jean Valjean would be good, too - and, though I can't quite see how you're going to do it, I have to assume you're building up to a Bible fanfic in which Jesus, as the ultimate Man, fills the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run. Beyond that, I don't know - but I look forward to finding out.

Sincerely,
Qoheleth

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