Oh, lord, yes, those OTT bad guys. Part of my take on writing Mac is putting him up against bad guys who look more or less the same as the TV versions, but are actually grounded in reality -- and hopefully come across as real threats. Succeeding against a real threat means a lot more to me than triumphing over gibbering maniacs. And there's plenty of real evil in the world, after all.
Some of the series episodes, especially in the later seasons, did try to have more realistic villains, I think.
I knew almost nothing about Michael Des Barres until I started writing this story; now I'm a fan. I stole some elements of his own background for Murdoc's backstory, along much the same lines of how RDA's own background infuses into both Mac and Jack O'Neill.
If you don't mind my asking -- in this story, how did Murdoc work for you in terms of reality? Not just the Big Challenge of presenting a plausible solution to the Not Dead Yet business, but handling Murdoc overall -- tyring to make him seem genuinely dangerous and creepy, not just pompous and laughable.
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Some of the series episodes, especially in the later seasons, did try to have more realistic villains, I think.
I knew almost nothing about Michael Des Barres until I started writing this story; now I'm a fan. I stole some elements of his own background for Murdoc's backstory, along much the same lines of how RDA's own background infuses into both Mac and Jack O'Neill.
If you don't mind my asking -- in this story, how did Murdoc work for you in terms of reality? Not just the Big Challenge of presenting a plausible solution to the Not Dead Yet business, but handling Murdoc overall -- tyring to make him seem genuinely dangerous and creepy, not just pompous and laughable.