Reviews for "Ideas Are Bulletproof"

Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:22 am

Wow Space, this was an incredible intense letter. I never saw the movie or read the comic, but I am planning to now. What I realy like about the piece is the more it progress from a simple reasoning of symbols, martyrism and the killing of those human symbols. In this letter you show what can drive them, even if it are indeed ruthless acts, but something feeds them: something feeds this anarchy. The end is just fantastic, it gives me the image that he will take on this Vendetta as well: basically the organised system and those he observed created a new anarchist/rebel. This is really an amazing piece!

Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:02 pm

I agree. It is very well written and made me think long on a BBC documentary that I saw the other day. "The power of nightmares -The politics of fear" Though, I wonder whether the palpable anger that we see described in this superb piece really reflects Finchs somewhat flegmatic charachter, as he is described in the movie in any case?
But that is a minor comment on a tremendously thought provoking story. Thanks a lot Space Weavil.

Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:38 pm

Sirannon said
I agree. It is very well written and made me think long on a BBC documentary that I saw the other day. "The power of nightmares -The politics of fear" Though, I wonder whether the palpable anger that we see described in this superb piece really reflects Finchs somewhat flegmatic charachter, as he is described in the movie in any case?
But that is a minor comment on a tremendously thought provoking story. Thanks a lot Space Weavil.

Thanks for the comment. It's interesting that you got a great sense of anger from the piece as that's really not what I was 'hearing' so to speak as I was writing it. I was going a lot more for a kind of wry, almost ironic tone, so maybe I need to look at that again.

SW

Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:16 pm

ooh dayum Speesh, this is really good. See, all of Seneca's intelligence and analytical thinking rubbed off while not a trace of the air bagginess remains. This is really an interesting point of view, beats hell out of reading a rehash of the movie, not that I've ever read any V for Vendetta fic, (why did I almost type porn???? *eyeroll*), but I really like this, brilliantly written and I love his smart assedness, gotta look for shovels, indeed.
LOL
Gxxx

Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:09 pm

SpaceWeavil said

Thanks for the comment. It's interesting that you got a great sense of anger from the piece as that's really not what I was 'hearing' so to speak as I was writing it. I was going a lot more for a kind of wry, almost ironic tone, so maybe I need to look at that again.

SW

I suppose what gave me the impression that he was angry, was that a lot of what is written is in 2nd person. It is very direct and the cadence of the text is in some places a bit like a machine gun. rat tat ta ta tat. That and he swears. I really don't think you should change it. I think it works perfectly, as it is. And off course it is just my interpretation.

Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:46 pm

Sirannon said
I suppose what gave me the impression that he was angry, was that a lot of what is written is in 2nd person. It is very direct and the cadence of the text is in some places a bit like a machine gun. rat tat ta ta tat. That and he swears. I really don't think you should change it. I think it works perfectly, as it is. And off course it is just my interpretation.

Oh, I wasn't meaning to argue with your comments. I just wanted to have a look and see if I had made it a bit too aggressive, but having looked at it again, I'm happy with how it turned out. The second person thing is to do with the challenge this was written for, and the fact that it's half a letter, half a report, addressed to the unseen superiors. I took quite a bit of inspiration as well from the novelisation of the film (as opposed to the graphic novel), which I know some people have issues with but personally I quite like, so a lot of the tone came from that.

But I'm really grateful for your comments and I'm sorry if I sounded argumentative.
Best wishes
SW

Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:14 pm

SpaceWeavil said

But I'm really grateful for your comments and I'm sorry if I sounded argumentative.
Best wishes
SW

Not at all. The only reason I answered, was because I wanted to clarify my position, and to make sure you didn't take it as a negative comment upon your piece, rather merely an observation.

Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:59 am

Wow! Very powerful and thought provoking piece SW! This was fantastic. You really got into the deep layered mind of Finch and I'm impressed with his very linear thought process on the whole affair and struggle shown he is still having with his decision.

My fav line: It frightens us, I think, because it makes us wonder, could I do the same? That fellow there is human, just like me.

I would say that line of thinking is dead on. Anytime some act of violence or forced justice occurs, I don't believe there's any one of us who doesn't try to put ourselves in those shoes. Even if it's for a brief, nightmarish second. Bravo!

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