Trivia / Star Trek: Phoenix

• What Could Have Been: The conflict between Sunset and Twilight following the former's return was originally intended to last for the bulk of Season 2. However, it received a strongly negative reception due to the readers perceived Twilight and Sunsent's behavior as varying unsympathetic or confusing. When looking back at the situation, Dewdrops on the Grass noted that she overestimated how familiar readers who had not specifically studied mental health would have been with the symptoms of emotional trauma, and thus how well they would by able to, essentially, diagnose Twilight's mental health issues based on the textual cues that were present in the story. As a result, she decided that the best way to handle the situation would be to just quickly end the arc several chapters early and move on, and slate it for potential rewriting in the future. As part of this, she also gave the arc a modified ending by closing it with the two reconciling entirely instead of agreeing to simply end the feud and move to a professional relationship.
  The Twilight/Sunset antagonism subplot will receive the most attention by far. Looking back there are many ways it could have been done in a way that the readers would have enjoyed more, that I would have enjoyed in writing, and so forth. Because I lost track of something when I was writing this.
  
  I forgot that the readers, all of you, you're not me. You haven't spent decades figuring out mental health issues and coming to an understanding of those who act out as a result. When I look at Twilight's actions, I don't get upset the way most of the readers did. I feel sad for her. I can see she's hurting, that something's wrong, that she needs help. That something needs to be done. So because of this... I wrote everything with the mistaken assumption the readers would see it that way too.
  
  That's why it will need editing. Not now, not while the story is in progress, but by the end we'll work all this out in a way that should make rereading the story far more enjoyable at these parts than it might be otherwise.

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