I'd been looking forward to this one. Wonderfully done. It's so interesting to see all of these things from Blythe's point of view, because it's just glimpses. It would be extremely nerve-wracking and frustrating, I'm sure. The tension between House and Wilson was dead-on, and painful.
I really enjoyed the scenes with John and Blythe, and their new Christmas tradition. John is such an ambiguous character though - it's interesting how much he can vary from writer to writer. I've been writing him as somewhat religious actually, so I thought it was interesting that you specifically said that he and Blythe weren't religious. I had just figured that it went hand in hand with the kind of dogmatism and rationalization that would lead someone to put their kid outside or in ice baths and think it was ok. (Not that un-religious people couldn't, and certainly not that all religious people would, lol.) I suppose you could be just as dogmatic in a secular way - the military certainly has a dogmatic atmosphere... But again, I think they used to go hand in hand - up to at least WWII, everyone in the military received a free Bible from the government. Of course, that doesn't mean everyone in the military actually believed it.
Anyway, sorry for that tangent!
This chapter was handled very well, and I look forward to the resolution. This entire series has been excellent and I kind of don't want it to end. Heh.
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Date: 2007-04-20 10:50 pm (UTC)I really enjoyed the scenes with John and Blythe, and their new Christmas tradition. John is such an ambiguous character though - it's interesting how much he can vary from writer to writer. I've been writing him as somewhat religious actually, so I thought it was interesting that you specifically said that he and Blythe weren't religious. I had just figured that it went hand in hand with the kind of dogmatism and rationalization that would lead someone to put their kid outside or in ice baths and think it was ok. (Not that un-religious people couldn't, and certainly not that all religious people would, lol.) I suppose you could be just as dogmatic in a secular way - the military certainly has a dogmatic atmosphere... But again, I think they used to go hand in hand - up to at least WWII, everyone in the military received a free Bible from the government. Of course, that doesn't mean everyone in the military actually believed it.
Anyway, sorry for that tangent!
This chapter was handled very well, and I look forward to the resolution. This entire series has been excellent and I kind of don't want it to end. Heh.