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crack_van2003-12-03 11:14 pm
msdaccxx.livejournal.com) wrote in crack_van2003-12-03 11:14 pm
We Cover The Waterfront by Maggie the Cat
Fandom: Homicide: Life on the Street
Pairing: None
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stubbleglitter
Author's website: Elaysian Fields
Why this must be read: What makes H:LOTs different from all those other cop shows? Well, for one, we gain just as much insight into the characters when they're not out solving cases as when they are. So, okay, there's any amount of teasing and fighting and falling out and making up in the squadroom, but the real downtime takes place in the Waterfront Bar over the street. Co-owned by Tim Bayliss, John Munch and Meldrick Lewis, this is the place where the murder poh-leece can wind down, wind each other up, pontificate, philosophise, celebrate, commiserate, cry into their beer and generally do what they do when they're not putting down cases. This story is really a series of vignettes, wonderful little pen-portraits of some of the squad on either side of the bar. The rhythms of speech and nuances of character are spot-on. The Waterfront is a character in itself; a sometimes busy, mostly sleepy refuge for the weary detective and bar-room philosopher alike.
We Cover The Waterfront
Pairing: None
Author on LJ:
stubbleglitterAuthor's website: Elaysian Fields
Why this must be read: What makes H:LOTs different from all those other cop shows? Well, for one, we gain just as much insight into the characters when they're not out solving cases as when they are. So, okay, there's any amount of teasing and fighting and falling out and making up in the squadroom, but the real downtime takes place in the Waterfront Bar over the street. Co-owned by Tim Bayliss, John Munch and Meldrick Lewis, this is the place where the murder poh-leece can wind down, wind each other up, pontificate, philosophise, celebrate, commiserate, cry into their beer and generally do what they do when they're not putting down cases. This story is really a series of vignettes, wonderful little pen-portraits of some of the squad on either side of the bar. The rhythms of speech and nuances of character are spot-on. The Waterfront is a character in itself; a sometimes busy, mostly sleepy refuge for the weary detective and bar-room philosopher alike.
We Cover The Waterfront
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I was glued to H:LOTs for years. Even when it went off the boil in the last couple of seasons it was still 100% better than the other cop stuff out there.