Is it my birthday or something? I feel a bit overwhelmed, but utterly delighted.
I also feel the need to apologize for there only be some six posted chapters left. I'm still very much writing, but it's become a process where I'm writing backwards so it's going to be a while. So apologies for that. *writer's guilt* But I also think the next upcoming chapters are some of my best writing, so I do hope you continue to enjoy it.
Beyond greatly enjoying reading your interpretation (which made my day!), I'm nodding along with your philosophy over the comics, fanart and fiction. Especially where you noted how fanfic writers are more familiar with their source than the professionals--this has never been more evident than with the characterization blunders and mythos discontinuity lately over at IDW, but also in the Season 8 blunders you cited (Warren being the biggest cock-up).
One bit I did want to comment on:
Yet it oddly provides the title to the story. The story grabs its title from a letter that Spike writes to Buffy before he heads into the epic fight at the end of Angel S5. He says in the letter that he wrote it, because he thought Buffy should know he was alive
It was the 'oddly' that struck me because I tend to think of the title as a driving theme for me when I'm writing. That Thought You Should Know--beyond being a theme about honesty, truth and how we hide from it even as we're searching for it--is also meta commentary on the existence of the story. All those questions explored that Season 8 dropped, all the relationships they didn't develop, they're all part of that statement--I thought you should know. So in a way, it's a direction from me (though veiled a bit, I hope), but also a commentary on what you go on to describe as fanfic's purpose. To show another perspective or fifty more perspectives. So this story is my saying I thought you should know these bits that aren't covered in the comics, my own spin. It's very strongly influenced by my belief that Season 8 introduced 'Vampires in Public/Slayers on the Outs' storyline and utterly failed to treat it as the complex situation it truly is. It's used as background fodder, inadequately established fodder at that, while it's rife with all sorts of more interesting questions (to me) than what's actually being explored in the comics.
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Date: 2010-04-04 01:08 pm (UTC)I also feel the need to apologize for there only be some six posted chapters left. I'm still very much writing, but it's become a process where I'm writing backwards so it's going to be a while. So apologies for that. *writer's guilt* But I also think the next upcoming chapters are some of my best writing, so I do hope you continue to enjoy it.
Beyond greatly enjoying reading your interpretation (which made my day!), I'm nodding along with your philosophy over the comics, fanart and fiction. Especially where you noted how fanfic writers are more familiar with their source than the professionals--this has never been more evident than with the characterization blunders and mythos discontinuity lately over at IDW, but also in the Season 8 blunders you cited (Warren being the biggest cock-up).
One bit I did want to comment on:
Yet it oddly provides the title to the story. The story grabs its title from a letter that Spike writes to Buffy before he heads into the epic fight at the end of Angel S5. He says in the letter that he wrote it, because he thought Buffy should know he was alive
It was the 'oddly' that struck me because I tend to think of the title as a driving theme for me when I'm writing. That Thought You Should Know--beyond being a theme about honesty, truth and how we hide from it even as we're searching for it--is also meta commentary on the existence of the story. All those questions explored that Season 8 dropped, all the relationships they didn't develop, they're all part of that statement--I thought you should know. So in a way, it's a direction from me (though veiled a bit, I hope), but also a commentary on what you go on to describe as fanfic's purpose. To show another perspective or fifty more perspectives. So this story is my saying I thought you should know these bits that aren't covered in the comics, my own spin. It's very strongly influenced by my belief that Season 8 introduced 'Vampires in Public/Slayers on the Outs' storyline and utterly failed to treat it as the complex situation it truly is. It's used as background fodder, inadequately established fodder at that, while it's rife with all sorts of more interesting questions (to me) than what's actually being explored in the comics.