The funny thing is, I can't actually remember. If I'm remembering right (it was a long time ago and I may not be), I wrote "Hands to Heaven" right after the fifth season finale, doing a strictly Willow POV. I think it just turned into one of those group-think things where a few other SunS (well, Horsechicks) read that and thought, "Okay, but what were the reactions of the others?" And some loose organization in the way of 'calling' characters on list was started (I think; I seem to recall two people working on the same POV for a short time). And Kiks wrote the bookends, plus two more, and I did two more, and we had to sit on Abby to make her write the damn Dawn story already -- she became convinced halfway through that it sucked, which is didn't. Not sure there was much more of a story than that.
Thank you for poking around your memory! That's very nice to know.
So: begun even before the coordinating AtS episode, or did those air the same night then? Were the stories all written (or begun) during that summer, before the next premiere rolled around? (At the time, I was watching AtS, but not BtVS.)
I know this is in no way a new thought, but I have all the sympathy in the world for the characters until they moment they bring Buffy back. There's nothing about that decision that is not deeply troubled, though of course what is done in canon, is done in canon, and the network wasn't buying a beheaded series...
Your "Darkest Dawn" stories made me cry, as they should. Thank you for sharing.
I don't remember if they aired the same night, but Hands to Heaven was written after the Angel episode aired; the scene with Willow in the lobby of the Hyperion was in the angel episode. And they were all written that summer, even as we prepared ourselves to be Jossed.
And I'm glad you liked teh series; it was a labor of love on all of our parts. :)
>"the scene with Willow in the lobby of the Hyperion was in the angel episode."
Oh, I know. :-) I just wondered if you intuited it, wrote it, and got ambushed by canon in world-record time. :-)
(Does getting Jossed mean that he goes and films exactly what you wrote, or that he goes and films something that cancels out what you wrote, or both? I think I've seen it used both ways, but I'm not sure.)
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So: begun even before the coordinating AtS episode, or did those air the same night then? Were the stories all written (or begun) during that summer, before the next premiere rolled around? (At the time, I was watching AtS, but not BtVS.)
I know this is in no way a new thought, but I have all the sympathy in the world for the characters until they moment they bring Buffy back. There's nothing about that decision that is not deeply troubled, though of course what is done in canon, is done in canon, and the network wasn't buying a beheaded series...
Your "Darkest Dawn" stories made me cry, as they should. Thank you for sharing.
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And I'm glad you liked teh series; it was a labor of love on all of our parts. :)
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Oh, I know. :-) I just wondered if you intuited it, wrote it, and got ambushed by canon in world-record time. :-)
(Does getting Jossed mean that he goes and films exactly what you wrote, or that he goes and films something that cancels out what you wrote, or both? I think I've seen it used both ways, but I'm not sure.)
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