And, yes, SO MUCH WORD. And that is extremely awesome, man, I have never been more than moderately friendly with a boyfriend's ex. But there has also never been any ridiculous CATFIGHT, either, wtf. And, actually, I do know exactly what you mean when it comes to the SHARED EYEROLL at some particular foible on the part of the guy in question - that is so very much the feeling I was going for here (well, not that refusing to rescue a kid is a foible, exactly, except perhaps from Jon's perspective...).
And I'm especially glad that you liked the LENGTHY buildup to the final GIRLS YAY teamwork. Because seriously, canon makes Janey such a bitter shrew, and Laurie so oblivious to all manner of things, that I couldn't manage to get them working together without some initial working-through of their manifold ISSUES. And of course said ISSUES are NOT ALL ABOUT JON, canon to the contrary! Moore did such a lot of interesting stuff with gender and sexism in Watchmen, but it is very much a case of ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK, oh look it is ALL ABOUT A GUY AT ALL TIMES EVERYWHERE.
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And, yes, SO MUCH WORD. And that is extremely awesome, man, I have never been more than moderately friendly with a boyfriend's ex. But there has also never been any ridiculous CATFIGHT, either, wtf. And, actually, I do know exactly what you mean when it comes to the SHARED EYEROLL at some particular foible on the part of the guy in question - that is so very much the feeling I was going for here (well, not that refusing to rescue a kid is a foible, exactly, except perhaps from Jon's perspective...).
And I'm especially glad that you liked the LENGTHY buildup to the final GIRLS YAY teamwork. Because seriously, canon makes Janey such a bitter shrew, and Laurie so oblivious to all manner of things, that I couldn't manage to get them working together without some initial working-through of their manifold ISSUES. And of course said ISSUES are NOT ALL ABOUT JON, canon to the contrary! Moore did such a lot of interesting stuff with gender and sexism in Watchmen, but it is very much a case of ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK, oh look it is ALL ABOUT A GUY AT ALL TIMES EVERYWHERE.
In short, YES GIRLS YAY!