I hear you with the fix-it fic thing. I've been feeling that this season is not so much broken as missing bits. (I fear I may have crushed my beta by sending her five episode tags at once.)
But I don't think the guns-in-shul thing is fixable without saying, "It didn't happen like that" and going slightly AU (like Buck tracking Don down instead of Don pickingthe place). I've had to do that on a couple of occasions when Academia Doesn't Work Like That, especially with Amita.
I think it would be easier to write what Charlie feels about being Jewish, because it isn't as important to him as it is to Don, Charlie's religion being mathematics, of course. And they don't seem to have had much part of the Jewish community growing up, so he probably thinks of it just in terms of ethnicity. I can see him having a dee-down uneasy feeling that he doesn't quite belong to America, actually.
As for Don, who knows what's going in his head? Not me, that's for certain. Oh, Don...
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Date: 2009-01-19 11:44 pm (UTC)But I don't think the guns-in-shul thing is fixable without saying, "It didn't happen like that" and going slightly AU (like Buck tracking Don down instead of Don pickingthe place). I've had to do that on a couple of occasions when Academia Doesn't Work Like That, especially with Amita.
I think it would be easier to write what Charlie feels about being Jewish, because it isn't as important to him as it is to Don, Charlie's religion being mathematics, of course. And they don't seem to have had much part of the Jewish community growing up, so he probably thinks of it just in terms of ethnicity. I can see him having a dee-down uneasy feeling that he doesn't quite belong to America, actually.
As for Don, who knows what's going in his head? Not me, that's for certain. Oh, Don...