Thank you! And - 'a bit angsty'? Seriously? *g* Looking back on it, it was almost too much even for me, and I'm an angst addict all the way (as long as it doesn't become gratuitous angst, that is; the angst still needs to fit into canon as a whole for me to really like it). For some strange reason I didn't feel all that sad while writing that last scene, but re-reading it afterwards... ouch. (It was so bad that today I wrote a whole new scene to tack onto the ending. I don't know, the way it was it felt so - final, in a way. Like yeah, sure, Cooper would be better off, but now Albert has lost the single important person in his life, and I didn't even try to take him past that...? I just couldn't leave it hanging there. Does that make sense?)
I was going to say it could be part of a multi-chapter epic because there's a sense of lots of things happening behind the scenes, here, but it wouldn't work quite so well if we knew what lead to this moment beforehand.
To be honest, as I'm not much of the plotty type of person, just drawing a basic sketch of what happened and leaving out the details was much easier for me. I don't think I could have managed the emotion as well as the plot - not in one and the same fic, anyway. I was just not too sure if there was enough detail for it not to seem like cheating or plain sloppiness, so it's good to hear that didn't bother you!
In fact, the last part could stand on it's own.
Yep, that occurred to me. :) After I'd written the whole fic, that was. *facepalm* As well as the opposite, in fact - that maybe I should have chosen a different final scene altogether, because inevitably with something like this, the final scene is all that's going to stick in everyone's memory. I loved the scene in itself, too, but - at the end of a six-parter like this one, maybe it wasn't the best choice overall, I don't know. (Which is part of the reason why I wrote the seventh part. Not a logical solution, I know. *g*)
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Date: 2010-08-31 09:12 pm (UTC)I was going to say it could be part of a multi-chapter epic because there's a sense of lots of things happening behind the scenes, here, but it wouldn't work quite so well if we knew what lead to this moment beforehand.
To be honest, as I'm not much of the plotty type of person, just drawing a basic sketch of what happened and leaving out the details was much easier for me. I don't think I could have managed the emotion as well as the plot - not in one and the same fic, anyway. I was just not too sure if there was enough detail for it not to seem like cheating or plain sloppiness, so it's good to hear that didn't bother you!
In fact, the last part could stand on it's own.
Yep, that occurred to me. :) After I'd written the whole fic, that was. *facepalm* As well as the opposite, in fact - that maybe I should have chosen a different final scene altogether, because inevitably with something like this, the final scene is all that's going to stick in everyone's memory. I loved the scene in itself, too, but - at the end of a six-parter like this one, maybe it wasn't the best choice overall, I don't know. (Which is part of the reason why I wrote the seventh part. Not a logical solution, I know. *g*)