Hey guys!
I'm really sorry I haven't been around much. I have been really busy working with a tight deadline at work and some bad stuff happened in my personal life. I feel really bad about not having had much time, but please know that I would never flake out for no reason and the fact that I still had to do this was always in the back of my mind.
I did have free time today so I read up to chapter 26 of 00Carter. Up to the end of the Bunnies in Black part. I thought I would come here and post my thoughts before I continued any further. I left lots of reviews though!
Anyway, I thought the beginning of it was really funny. I like how Nick is this slick secret agent, but he's still so Nickish lol. It reminds me a lot of Get Smart actually. I like how all BSB have made an appearance so far, and how most of the Nsync guys are there too.
I found the part with Justin's backstory to be the best one so far. I thought it was the most intriguing and had the most character stuff that I liked. I enjoyed when it dug into his and Nick's past and what his motivations to being a villain were. I'm hoping that there will be more Nick/Justin scenes in future chapters! Also, the fact that he's called 'drums' amuses me to no end.
The only criticism I have so far is that it seems a little disjointed at times, which I suppose could be because there were so many people working on it. But for the most part I am enjoying it!
Again, really sorry for being MIA but our work project is finished now so things have calmed down for me.
Glad to see you back here, Steph, and I hope life has started to settle down for you. Thanks for taking the time to read and leave feedback.
I'm glad Nick still seems like Nick, even as a secret agent. We started writing this before the Get Smart movie came out (and had never seen the show), but when that movie came out, we were like, "This is so 00Carter!" That's exactly what we were going for.
Even though there are fictional characters (mainly, the Carter girls) and other celebrity cameos (NSync and the other random boyband guys in FANS), we wanted to keep it a BSB fanfic, so it was important to us to give each of the guys a role. Obviously, Nick's the main character, and Howie's the supervillain, but we try to make sure Kevin, AJ, and Brian get to be involved in the episodes too.
I'm glad you liked the Justin stuff. We dislike Justin, but Drums is one of our favorite characters to write. And yes, Drums... LOL It goes back to that part in "Like I Love You" where he goes "Drums" out of nowhere... and then the drums start up again. But yeah, he's in the story a lot in future episodes, and you get more Dr. Rough back story eventually, too.
I can see how it seems disjointed, especially in the earlier episodes when we had more people writing and hadn't latched onto a style we could all agree on yet. I think it gets smoother as the episodes go on, but I'll be curious to see what you think.
Thanks again for the honest feedback!!