So sad. But it was never going to end well for anyone who lived through that, was it?
No. I think one of the things I like about EatD is that it doesn't forget the consequences of things, and that what happens is something they're also going to have to live with (or not be able to live with).
Mind, I did intend to make the fifth scenario slightly happier (I was going to have Anna Richter in it - I do like what little we hear of her!) but then... it wouldn't work out, so I had to sacrifice Anna.
And, yes, I have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society now - I remembered you mentioning it before and picked it up in a charity shop last summer. I did enjoy it quite a lot, even though it had wrong names for the place/period and I get very nitpicky about that, but also it made me realise again how much I liked the TV series and wanted to know about what happened to those characters, even if I can't really.
So that was the point last year when I realised that I needed to get my own copy of EatD as soon as I could, and a history book! It didn't really answer my questions, though, of course, but some of the eye-witness accounts mentioned things that were obviously direct sources for the series, so that was interesting. And the rest made me speculate a lot. And write horribly gloomy fic. obviously. But even my mild research via the one book and Wiki for this kept throwing up interesting things that the EatD writers put in and never spelled out (or never got the chance to put to use later on, of course).
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No. I think one of the things I like about EatD is that it doesn't forget the consequences of things, and that what happens is something they're also going to have to live with (or not be able to live with).
Mind, I did intend to make the fifth scenario slightly happier (I was going to have Anna Richter in it - I do like what little we hear of her!) but then... it wouldn't work out, so I had to sacrifice Anna.
And, yes, I have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society now - I remembered you mentioning it before and picked it up in a charity shop last summer. I did enjoy it quite a lot, even though it had wrong names for the place/period and I get very nitpicky about that, but also it made me realise again how much I liked the TV series and wanted to know about what happened to those characters, even if I can't really.
So that was the point last year when I realised that I needed to get my own copy of EatD as soon as I could, and a history book! It didn't really answer my questions, though, of course, but some of the eye-witness accounts mentioned things that were obviously direct sources for the series, so that was interesting. And the rest made me speculate a lot. And write horribly gloomy fic. obviously. But even my mild research via the one book and Wiki for this kept throwing up interesting things that the EatD writers put in and never spelled out (or never got the chance to put to use later on, of course).