Sorry about the late response, no idea where the week went...
It's not even entirely that it's harder to write straight fluff, I think, although that's a big part of it (and I never thought I'd say this, but, man, I am missing all that fluff right now). Yeah, fluff is nice. I guess there's the (2nd) Therapy Fic...
It's that you have to deal with this very specific set of both emotional and plot issues, or else you have to figure out a way to write around it, which is awkward, or ignore it, which feels weird to do. Yeah, the writers basically have to figure out how to write some kind of S3, because the issues can't be handwaved away. And - as a perceptive person pointed out on Tumblr - there is no way S2 could have a happy ending, given the Metatron's proposal. Aziraphale going to Heaven on his own/Crowley coming with him/Aziraphale NOT going - all have heartbreak in there.
LOL, I think the fact that it doesn't feel so much like A Fic in terms of how it handles the emotional stuff is exactly what I looooooooove about it! Because I don't think the emotional revelation is absent, exactly, but it's not prototypically ficcy emotional revelation, and I find that such a breath of fresh air. All your thoughts were v interesting and I am so happy that it worked for you.
But I still think the ending was a cop-out from a Crowley POV.
That said, it was written and posted SO QUICKLY, that I'm not surprised that they cut corners. Just the speed is a huge achievement.
Well, that thing with the dialog tags aside. :) Didn't mind that, for me it was the random typos. ;)
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It's not even entirely that it's harder to write straight fluff, I think, although that's a big part of it (and I never thought I'd say this, but, man, I am missing all that fluff right now).
Yeah, fluff is nice. I guess there's the (2nd) Therapy Fic...
It's that you have to deal with this very specific set of both emotional and plot issues, or else you have to figure out a way to write around it, which is awkward, or ignore it, which feels weird to do.
Yeah, the writers basically have to figure out how to write some kind of S3, because the issues can't be handwaved away. And - as a perceptive person pointed out on Tumblr - there is no way S2 could have a happy ending, given the Metatron's proposal. Aziraphale going to Heaven on his own/Crowley coming with him/Aziraphale NOT going - all have heartbreak in there.
LOL, I think the fact that it doesn't feel so much like A Fic in terms of how it handles the emotional stuff is exactly what I looooooooove about it! Because I don't think the emotional revelation is absent, exactly, but it's not prototypically ficcy emotional revelation, and I find that such a breath of fresh air.
All your thoughts were v interesting and I am so happy that it worked for you.
But I still think the ending was a cop-out from a Crowley POV.
That said, it was written and posted SO QUICKLY, that I'm not surprised that they cut corners. Just the speed is a huge achievement.
Well, that thing with the dialog tags aside. :)
Didn't mind that, for me it was the random typos. ;)