by Alcy » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:25 pm
GayNow: Okay…calm down, I don’t want to make anyone suffer a meltdown and the Chapter isn’t going to disappear! Read at your leisure!
SithLordWiccan: Chris had it up in a flash so yay for Chris! You’re printing off the whole story? That’s an awful lot of paper!
caz: The fact that it’s finished is sinking in now, give the fact that I am happily working away on my new fic without feeling guilty that I have more than two fics on the go (well, there’s about five in the pipeline but they don’t count!)
Yes well, they are the bad guys so therefore I have to make them as mean and nasty and possible…and presumably they don’t have the deep respect and affection that we all feel for Tara!
Buffy’s dying was sad, but it also served a point, illustrating that this is not Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Buffy as the main character, therefore I can kill her off quite happily (well, I wasn’t laughing about it!) and not have her come back to life. This is the Willow and Tara show where our heroines will always live happily ever after thank goodness. And we had to have the happiest ending possible with our girls getting married (because of course as you will remember, my alternate version of the 1930s is exceptionally gay friendly!) and having a pre-made family! Let’s hope Mrs Chippy (as you will remember he is a boy) can father some little Miss Kittys in the future!
Thanks very much, I’m aiming to get the new fic up quite soon just because I want to share it with everyone!
Useful_Oxymoron: You’re making my head swell UO! But of course, to win wars you always have to lose good friends. I have watched countless war films and it always happens that you get to know and like the characters and then they’re killed and die surrounded by their mates.
And yes, you’ll have to imagine that the wedding would have been very moving indeed…although the guests would have been few.
Mysterious new story will be landing shortly…it’s not that mysterious, just yet another AU!
spells42: It has always struck me that the climaxes of sci-fi films and most action films are always the biggest act in the movie with everything going on all at once. This is what I wanted to convey at the end of Captain Red. If it was going to be made into a movie, this is where all the money would be spent!
And then all of a sudden everything narrows down into such a small focus. It would have been too hard to explain exactly what the world was like in the aftermath and there are too many questions that needed answering. My solution was to not do any of that and just give a snapshot through Willow and Tara’s experience.
Thanks for the visuals, you’re semi along the same track as me. You know how old sci-fi films were futuristic but not> simply because of the time when they were filmed. So all the gadgets in Captain Red wouldn’t be straight off the set of Star Trek: TNG but rather out of the pages of an old comic book. The world in those sci-fi serials was always pretty bright though and I think I was trying to convey some of that. The fact that Willow’s squadron flew red planes, the Net that encircled the fleet was pink! The alien blood was bright green and their eyes purple…things like that. So while it became a dark storyline there was always colour throughout.
Hopefully you wont be waiting long, I’ll be back to updating Rhyme and Reason now and there should be a new story up soon…although look for ‘Alcy’ in the authors box instead of ‘KiwiAlcyone.’
Dianneswillowtree: Thanks heaps, I wanted it to be as action packed as possible, yet still have tender little W/T moments and a lot of humour, as well as angst. No plans for a part II at all…I think the planet can only handle one alien invasion! Although I’d love to do another flying fic one day, maybe set in space!
Artemis: I think up until the end they had me fooled too, I still half-wanted her to turn out to be the real Diana sine she meant so much to Tara, but in the end, I am cruel and the plot reflects that! I’d also hope that the real Diana would be proud of Tara, not to mention itching to kick the fake ones arse!
Aren’t the red laser cannons in Star Wars for the Imperials? But I know what you mean, laser in general = cool. I’d be inclined to go for Hot Rod over Optimus…although he was more orange and that really yucky red! But I think we get your point, Red in general = evil! So no surprises there. I should have made it a nice buttercup yellow.
I had to have Faith at the end, the show always illustrated that she was a survivor (where Buffy was always dying!) and she is my favourite character after W/T. I like the image of her standing in the doorway with a smoking gun! At the end, her struggles were reflected in her need for solitude, and the fact she couldn’t let herself settle down for a quiet life with W & T…not yet anyway.
Small scale for the epilogue was always the way to go. Besides, I didn’t think I had it in me to write a huge, full-scale conclusion to everything and you’re right, the scale would have been so huge to make it impersonal. We need to keep it close to home.
Yup, the end of Captain Red…well, just the fic, Captain Red is going to be alive and well in Oregon. No doubt having lots of hot gay sex and learning how to ride horses!
Watty: You and me both, that’s why I had to put everything else on hold and just get it finished. I’m feeling pretty relieved now.
Our heroines were looking pretty messy at the end, me being sadistic I wanted to push them to the very limit of their endurance…and life! Simply to illustrate the power that love has to push people beyond those limits.
Despite the fact that their lives have been torn apart, their future does look nice and cosy, so I was glad to end on that note.
Everyone just can’t wait for that new story huh? I hope its not a let down!!
JustSkipIt: It’s always difficult trying to tell such a large scale event from the right POVs, but I hope I pulled this one off in a believable manner. It certainly was hard work! I’m of the firm belief that you don’t need to show absolutely everything and this chapter certainly illustrates that, not only in the narrow focus of the epilogue but also throughout the chapter, concentrating on Faith’s POV in escaping the burning ship, and Cherry’s POV of the alien invasion and the subsequent destruction of their race on a large scale. The scale of this would have been huge but to limit it to the POV of one little boy made it manageable and believable.
I don’t think the LGFs counted on Tara being such a strong individual, no doubt the other captured humans they had used before went willingly to their deaths. Thanks ever so much, I look forward to presenting my next fic!
WillowRulez: I’m sorry I couldn’t save Alex…and I rubbed it in by having him die a rather grizzly (but unseen) death. Of course the story isn’t over, no doubt there are many challenges to be faced in their new life…getting the farm back up and running, what are they going to eat? And of course how Tara is going to feel when she comes back to the house where her father and brother died, and how they adapt to being the parents of a little boy who has seen so much? But all that will be mercifully left unsaid, I could keep on going for many chapters yet!!!
Yes, the real decider was when the fake Diana said she was the only one who loved Tara, definitely not the right thing to say!!!
Come on, I’m not a meanie!!
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. Willow seemed to act like a sort of beacon for Tara to focus on in the real world. There wasn't much she could do with shoulder stabbed.
. How long will it take for Willow to get restless or will she truly settle down ? Questions, questions... 
I'll leave it up to everyone to imagine their own little W & T paradise! Thanks so much for reading all throughout this fic and leaving such excellent feedback which has really helped the development of the story
