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The New Arrangement by Ru_salki99 (NC-17)

  • Mar. 29th, 2009 at 1:21 PM
Title: The New Arrangement
Fandom: Chuck
Pairing: Chuck/Casey
Categories: Romance, Drama
Length: Long
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] ru_salki99
Website: Ru_salki99 ff.net

Review:
When Chuck decides to "dump" Sarah and begin dating Lou, a sandwich shop owner and daughter to a crime boss, Casey can't bring himself to like the idea and decides to take matters into his own hands and offer Chuck an alternative arrangement.

If you're anything like myself, you came into this fandom a little late. Personally, it wasn't until the last episode of the first season was airing that I actually bothered to start watching it. Boy, was I glad I did. Full of humor and a premise that is equal parts intriguing and ridiculous, it quickly made it to the top of my television viewing. If not just because it gave me a good laugh every week.

Even so, The New Arrangement is one of the less lighthearted fan fictions in the fandom despite keeping with the humorous premise of the series. It does a good job in exploring the reality of Chuck actually have all the NSA and CIA secrets downloaded to his brain, thereby making him the Intersect (i.e. a human super computer), and also with the fact that, should the new Intersect be built, Casey would be ordered to 'terminate' him. Something of which, as you'll find, isn't something that Casey is prepared to do, especially after he and Chuck being their new arrangement. Don't be scared off, however, by all the drama. It's well worth the read.


Note: I've included a link to the sequel, Getting Comfortable, but I'll warn you now that it ends open-ended so that, in the author's own words, the reader can decide what happens next. Use your own judgment to decide if you'll be able to 'deal' with that.

The New Arrangement
Getting Comfortable (sequel)

Comments

[identity profile] jane-elliot.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2009 10:18 pm (UTC)
Gah. The ending of Getting Comfortable was IMO totally out of left field and turned me off of the author as a whole. Pity, because I rather enjoyed The New Arragement. (Also, I highly approve of more Chuck fics:)
[identity profile] slyprentice.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2009 11:20 pm (UTC)
I completely agree with you about the ending for Getting Comfortable. I've got that 'I wish I hadn't read it' thing going on even though I quite enjoyed this one. Then again, in fan fiction, I'm not much of a fan of open-endings. They just don't work as well as they would in a show or movie.
[identity profile] jane-elliot.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 29th, 2009 11:37 pm (UTC)
The problem is, the ending comes out of nowhere, is entirely OOC for Sarah, and basically makes no sense at all. It really felt like an amateurish move and since I personally think an author has to be *more* professional to be taken seriously on ff.net than elsewhere, I just sort of lost interest in both her and her stories. Which is a pity, because there really isn't enough long fic out there for Chuck.
[identity profile] ru-salki99.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 30th, 2009 06:13 pm (UTC)
I'm sorry that you felt that way about the ending. In all honesty I ended it that way because I couldn't decide myself what way i wanted it to go. I was a bit tired of doing the constant happy endings, but then I wasn't very keen on finishing it with character death either. And to this day I've never been happy with the ending. I can understand that as a reader that it might have seemed a bit lazy on my part. But honestly, it wasn't an easy decision to make.

And again I'm sorry that you lost interest in my fics. My aim in writing is for those who are reading to enjoy it, so it's completely understandable that after not enjoying the ending that you chose not to read anymore.

However, to say that I'm not 'professional' with my writing, I think is a little bit of an exaggeration. If I had ended the story (and other stories) the way you wanted me to, there would be others that would be unhappy with that. Everyone's taste is different and I think you need to take that into consideration before calling someone unprofessional.
[identity profile] jane-elliot.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 30th, 2009 07:47 pm (UTC)
If it helps, this is only my interpretation of the fic -- I'm sure lots (probably even most) other folks would disagree. And if you'd like, I can certainly screen that comment; just let me know.
[identity profile] ru-salki99.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 30th, 2009 07:52 pm (UTC)
Not at all. You're allowed to have your own opinion. But like I said. I'm just sorry it made you feel that way.

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