>Would have finished sooner, but was on page 7 when I got the call that
>I'm an Uncle for the first time... took me a while to float back down
>again :)

well, hey, congratulations!

>I was especially touched with how pervasive
>Rachael was, although I get the impression that the character was
>initially there at some level, and was then re-written as a tribute.

I needed a character to do what she does, but I didn't have a clear concept for one until about 3 weeks ago. And at that, she was a team effort. The two scenes written with the protocharacter were converted by Anne Cross, and that's what sparked everything into motion. We all put our two cents in, which is why she doesn't have just one creator listed in the credits.

>My brain appears to be spinning and not very coherant, so I'll wait
>until later to give a detailed commentary, but one thing keeps jumping
>out at me: Well OF COURSE Yves is God :)

Here's a bit of production trivia: Believe it or not, I arrived at the mental casting of Patrick Stewart as Yves and Sir Ian McKellen as Lucifer independently, not because they were both in a movie I recently saw. I don't normally cast live actors in original-character roles except for special cases like K&J, but Stewart just jumped into my head as Yves. He's one of the very few actors I can picture credibly playing a kindly, stooped old librarian who suddenly straightens up and speaks with the cracking-whip voice of God Almighty.

As for McKellen, that's mainly because I got a vivid image of him delivering the "Well, well, if it isn't Laurence Dullblade" line. :)

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