I don't know that it really was soap opera so much as there's a problem with (for lack of better term) the emotional pacing. Not enough lulls between the crests. Yes! (Butting in, cos I think it was me first used the term "soap opera" about it) Yes, this is a much better way to describe the way I feel about it. If there'd been more breathing space between each crisis/miracle then I would have been much more comfortable reading The Far Shore!
I often love fic that's "Never an easy read" (Elizabeth Holden's "Forever True" (zine only) springs to mind, oh and Castalia - "Snowman With A Dark Coat" is another of my favourite fics for that very reason!) I find it hard to compare MacLean (who I also adore) with Angelfish though - such different styles, and yet they've both got ways of making you feel deeply. I'd say Angelfish was better for this in her first two stories though... less overwrought, and therefore a cleaner emotional impact?
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Date: 2007-07-26 08:41 pm (UTC)Yes! (Butting in, cos I think it was me first used the term "soap opera" about it) Yes, this is a much better way to describe the way I feel about it. If there'd been more breathing space between each crisis/miracle then I would have been much more comfortable reading The Far Shore!
I often love fic that's "Never an easy read" (Elizabeth Holden's "Forever True" (zine only) springs to mind, oh and Castalia - "Snowman With A Dark Coat" is another of my favourite fics for that very reason!) I find it hard to compare MacLean (who I also adore) with Angelfish though - such different styles, and yet they've both got ways of making you feel deeply. I'd say Angelfish was better for this in her first two stories though... less overwrought, and therefore a cleaner emotional impact?