Message #93729

[Scott]

I like this. A lot, actually. It has a really nice balance. It's light, which I like, with some nice touches of humour, but it's also dark. But subtle dark, not 'look how dark I can get' which you get in a lot of writing, both professional and in fanfic. It is also an ocean of emotion. Bit of rhyming, there. The Doctors mind, I would imagine, would be a terrifying place to be, but rather than try and lay it all out and explain it, you highlight the stuff that's needed for the story and leave the rest in mystery, which I like. Some people like having an entire story laid out for them. Others, like myself, like to have a certain level of mystery left in place. I think the story would still have been good, but perhaps less interesting, if you had given us a roadmap of everything he was thinking and feeling and exactly why and how we were at this place. Handled differently, that could have been a question that needed to be answered, but instead it's been left to us to work that bit out. That's how I saw it, anyway. Great story.