Tepid Apocalypse

Fanfiction
Title:	Tepid Apocalypse
Author(s):	Molly
Date(s):	August 2000
Length:	6931
Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	The Sentinel
Relationship(s):
External Links:	AO3
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Tepid Apocalypse is a Jim/Blair story by Molly.

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Winner for most intriguing title of the year. Plus, hey man, is it just me or is Sentinel fandom starting to attract charmingly bent girls with a literary bent? The author notes in her author notes: "Quoted headers to each part are, in order, the three stanzas which make up Henri Michaux's poem 'Shriek', as translated from French by William Rees."...

Why you should read this: Some of you were thinking that Tepid Apocalypse was just another Bruce Willis movie, but you've wandered into the wrong theater. This is a nice story; definitely low-key, as the title implies, but plausible and with subtle authorial curlicues sprinkled like garnish all the way through to the last line. (And if you ask me what the hell that means, I'm just going to tell you: I have a head cold. Leave me alone.)

What might throw you off stride: I like Blair's pal Sydney. When I read stories like this, I feel as if my tastes in slash have matured, because I used to have knee-jerk reactions against icky girls appearing in my slash stories. ("Cooties!") I imagine it could cause discomfort for some readers, but maybe not. Maybe everyone else already had mature tastes and were just waiting for me to catch up....

Best FF Featuring a Title That Sums up Both the Story and the Canon Problem the Story Fixes. Plus I Just Really, Really Love the Title and I Wanted to Spend Some Extra Time Talking About It. Tepid Apocalypse, by Molly, aka molly36. The Sentinel, Blair Sandburg/Jim Ellison. And here we have a series ender that just made no sense. Because, OK, I've never actually watched the series, but I know enough about the situation in "The Sentinel by Blair Sandburg" to know that a) there were other and better ways of resolving it and b) the way they picked wouldn't actually work. So that's fairly irritating. Also, way to destroy the character of Blair and the relationship balance between Blair and Jim, folks. Just in general, this episode's plot says to me, "We needed a dramatic last episode, and after 20 minutes of vodka-ridden thought, this was the best idea we had on the table." So post-TSbyBS stories that make that concept work impress me - I mean, the fic author is doing way better than canon writers did, yeah? And "Tepid Apocalypse" also manages to find a new balance between Blair and Jim, repair the character damage the episode did, and just generally fix what went wrong when the fine writers of The Sentinel had whatever massive brainstroke they did. In other words, this is a textbook case of canon repair. Go, Molly.