Meme results: DVD commentary bits.

[dsudis]

Ahahahaha okay so this meme is a lot harder than I thought it would be when I posted it! So I apologize if my responses are totally unsatisfying. Feel free to ask follow up questions if I am that person who just rambles uninformatively about something no one cares about in DVD commentaries.

Oh God I am the person who just rambles about boring

Comments

[dsudis]

Well, I think it helped that, on the one hand, I'd kind of internalized the rules of time travel within the Who-verse, and on the other hand, I was so totally immersed in Ianto's POV--so the story seemed to unfold in a very linear way, because I followed the timeline of his perception.

Still, it did take five months to write, so I'm probably comfortably forgetting some things. :)

As I recall, I started plotting the story even before I'd finished watching season two of Torchwood, and then was writing it as I was watching season four of Doctor Who, so several of the external plot events--Tosh's death and John Hart's presence, the Sontarans--were put in place for me by the show, and I just built the story around them.

The one thing that I didn't plot on that first day was the last time loop, Indy's trip to visit Ianto in Cardiff, and the subsequent retconning and so on. I had already written the first couple of chapters and was describing the arc of the story to darthfox, and when I got to the part where Ianto has to leave Indy and Jack in the future, she asked whether Indy would ever get to travel back to see Ianto again. I said, no, that's not what happens, it gets fixed another way--but I loved the idea of the extra loop so much that I added it to the story, and therefore added a whole extra layer of headaches for anyone trying to figure out all the time travel. :)