[Fan Fiction] ACT 39: THE LAST OF THE WAYNERIGHTS, Complete!

ARGH! March? *cries* I can't wait that long! *jumps up and down* NOW NOW NOW! ^.^

*lol* Contrary to my statement above, I shall wait, slightly patiently, though always excitedly antsy, for a Season 4. ^.^ *prays there will be one*

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Crystalline, I'm afraid you're going to have to write your own psycho-Alan romance. Unless he falls in love with a washing machine or something. I could do that.

No, no, no, you've got it all wrong. He's in love with the VACUUM. It's a Hoover, really nice one...

And Tony is denied AGAIN!?!? Now we HAVE to have a Season 4, just so Tony can finally get his 'droid! ;_; I'm rootin' for him, man!

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Originally posted by Crystalline And Tony is denied AGAIN!?!? Now we HAVE to have a Season 4, just so Tony can finally get his 'droid! ;_; I'm rootin' for him, man![/color]

I am sure Uncle Tomato will have Tony place a red wig on a toaster and call her Dottie.

I too would petition for a A.C.T Season 4.

DO YOU HEAR US, Uncle Tomato! WE BESEECH YOU FOR A NEW SEASON!!!

*Foldgers music playing in background* The best part of burning businesscardcdsatwork is reading uncle acts fanfic.

*sniffles* So wonderful. The last part with Roger and Dorothy was absolutely perfect. That's exactly the way Roger WOULD tell Dorothy he loves her, and her response was right on!

Can we PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE have a Season 4 Uncle Tomato? We'll all be good little girls and boys, we promise!

I'm confused about something.. Is Gordon dead or not? It sounds like he is until the last 'Grandfather agrees' line, so i'm confused.

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Originally posted by X Prime I'm confused about something.. Is Gordon dead or not? It sounds like he is until the last 'Grandfather agrees' line, so i'm confused.

Well, (a) We saw him crumble into dust.

(b) We also saw him vanish into nothing at the end of Act 26, but that didn't seem to stop him for long.

(c) Maybe the human Dori knows something that we don't. Odd that a sensitive, caring girl like that would not be upset by Gordon's demise...

Excellent series, Mr. Tomato. The old characters were dead-on, the new ones were well done, and the reinvention of Beck was believable. The story even has room for more...Please? I'm willing to wait till next month, next year, what have you. But I really hope you do decide to continue it. Thank you for writing and posting Season 3.

Aw, poor Schwarwald didn't even get to do anything important. Oh well.

Now then, when will Dastun and R. Norman begin piloting Big Ear?

Damn, beat me too it. I had already written a sequel to season 2.

Your sequel, however, is incredible. If one of the producers sees this, they'd be crazy not to steal it and take credit for it themselves!!!

Good job on season three. Now go write season four.

I finally had the chance to read this through! Bravo, ACT! Wonderful season!

When will you start Season 4?

I was waiting to watch Act 26 before I started reading all of the fanfics.

I just read Act 27.

ACT thank you so much for writing these. The are so well written, I can easily envision the scene in my head as the story plays out.

Excellent job.

On to act 28 yay!

-Celi

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Originally posted by A Clockwork Tomato As for Season 4, I'm considering it, but I won't make any commitments one way or the other until March.

Yay for considering!

Just in case you want my opinion here it is: you should make a season 4.

Good work

~ Nico

So, now that Dori's not totally dependent on Beck, will she be able to write that novel she was starting on? You know, "Before We Forgot"?

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Originally posted by Stampede So, now that Dori's not totally dependent on Beck, will she be able to write that novel she was starting on? You know, "Before We Forgot"?

Y'know, I wondered the exact same thing when Human Dori came into the picture. I hope she will. It'd probably be a best-seller.

I can see it now.

"Roger was busy checking out the Big O. Last time he had piloted it, he noticed that the left leg felt like it was moving funny, and he wondered if there was something stuck in one of it's joints.

Meanwhile, Jason was good-looking.

General Dastun entered the hangar... [more stuff happens]

Jason checked, and came to the conclusion he was still good-looking."

We all know it would turn out like that.

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Originally posted by Stampede So, now that Dori's not totally dependent on Beck, will she be able to write that novel she was starting on? You know, "Before We Forgot"?

The real question is, can she avoid having the human Dori as co-author, and endless wrangles over the plot? After all, Dori's original plan was a tangled tale of love and violence featuring Dorothy Wayneright and Roger Smith, but the way the human Dori remembers it, the tangled tale of love and violence featuring Dori Wayneright and Jason Beck is FAR more interesting, and the double romance is even better, especially with its double dose of sibling rivalry to spice things up (since Beck and Roger were also brothers -- adopted by the same family -- last time around, according to the Doris.)

The Doris, by the way, insist that she/they fell in love with Beck first, and that Dorothy and Roger are nothing but copycats. This is nonsense, of course.

Nor does the idea of a wild romance between Beck at 21 and Dori at 15 cause the Doris the slightest discomfort or embarrassment. "True love plays by its own rules," they say. The concept has the now-26-year-old BECK (who of course remembers none of this because it never really happened) looking for the exits and edging slowly away. You gotta worry when events get too weird for Beck.

You have to write the scene where Beck reads the manuscript. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. You write Beck so hilariously.

*sniff* I was so beautiful.Write season 4 please!^_^

Ok, I've sat here and read this whole thing in the course of two nights, so clearly I liked it quite a bit. That said...

* The characterization of Beck was a little iffy. (At one point some criminal type actually referred to him as honest. Really? Beck, honest?) He needed to be raked over the coals more in order to change so much in a really believable fashion. IE, go through some sort of life-changing crisis.

* Roger and Dorothy took too much of a back seat to everyone else, partly because the story was bent on showing what a hero Beck had become, and partly because...

* There were just too many megadeuses. We were introduced to a mere two new "Bigs" per season in the actual series, but they seemed to grow on trees here. Emily and Will seemed sort of superfluous to me also.

* The combat felt more like a BattleTech novel than Big O, with more exchanges of long-range missiles than close-quarters brawling.

* Zombies? WTF?

* The army of the Old Dominus seemed to exist without any sort of logistics at all. Just one small example: Something the size of a Chimera probably requires several tons of food per day, and God knows how much water. How were they keeping such large numbers of them alive out there in the desert?

* Why on earth is it a rule that every Dominus has to sleep with their android?

There's something in what you say. If I were doing it again, I might stick to more closely to the conventions -- for example, always arranging it so that every robot fight was as hackneyed as a Western gunfight, with only one robot on each side, no matter how many robots are actually available, and fought in Main Street whenever possible. I decided instead to mix it up more, with occasional encounters that were more like the gunfight at the OK Corral. This isn't to everyone's taste.

I suppose I would have been more canonical if two-thirds of the Megadeuses hadn't had the word "Big" in their names. It would have made no real difference. In general I suppose I was too consistent in my nomenclature. Random variation would have made things more mysterious.

I expected to have more Roger-Dorothy screen time, but in fact it's the people who are in the worst trouble who hog the camera, and a lot of their problems had been resolved. It was HARD to get them back on-stage.

As for Dominuses and androids being in love, isn't that sweeeeeet? I never quite spelled out the full justification for it in Season 3, though it's discussed at some length in "Dori's Rude Awakening" and "Dori the Criminal."