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Yep. And that’s what makes it pure and utter… cowpoopie.
The last thing I’m saying is that he *WILL* be back, and I think it’s far, far from canon. I’m just not completely convinced that there won’t be an attempt to wrap the series by telling the story they initially wanted to tell. And frankly, I get stuck on that by the weird stuff they threw into 319-20-22… it just doesn’t strike me as guys who decided their awesome story wasn’t awesome after all, but rather, guys who got told they would have to give up their awesome story to keep their show. So they conceded, because it’s an industry, it’s peoples’ livlihood and jobs, and that’s the way it rolls… but have they given up totally? The car-stealing kid and the dead guy being the underwriter of the finale tell me no.
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Yep, it totally is. Frankly, I cannot get past the fact that they named her brother after her lover, and that’s just squinky, okay? It’s just weird. It would be one thing if he’d been dead more than ten days, but… yeah. And secondly, and more importantly, now every dang time someone references that baby, it’s going to pick pick pick at that scab for Emma and for Henry. Naming a baby in honor of someone is one thing, but yeah… that’s not what’s going on here.
I agree and disagree with the earlier point, RG. They wanted him dead, yep, and no amount of character-driven story will prevent that. But where we disagree is, I feel they want him dead NOW – will he be back in the long run? He might. I am ducking here, because you’ve just said it makes you angry when someone says that – but my darned optimism requires me to allow for the possibility that the show has a road yet to travel, and it does not preclude bringing this story back around.
I think it’s like Phee said – in order to make it through the rest of the show, I’ll still need to view SF as endgame. And it’s the easiest (albeit potentially deluded) way to do that. But I am slowly coming to terms with the fact that as much as I’d like the show to be dead to me, I can’t write it off so easily… my roommates will be watching it in the fall, and of course it will be discussed here. So I’m gonna go all Ostritch and pop my head into the sand and hold out hope that in the long LONG term, maybe just maybe there’s a glimmer.
But as for right now? Yeah. They had to work harder to make and leave him dead than to let him live. Charming’s heart was crushed, and he survived, but Neal stuck a metal key in a manhole cover and that’s certain, unavoidable death? Right. Okay. Whatevs, A&E. Seriously, just leave him dead at the danged portal. *angry ranting*
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Stumbled across this story and couldn’t help but think of our favorite car thieves.
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2014/05/16/youll-want-to-sleep-in-this-car/
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Corbin, I think the simple answer is what Ranisha has said – it’s not a matter of there being a way. There are a million THOUSAND ways to bring the guy back. If they so wanted, he could re-enter in the first five minutes of 4×01 and it would fit easily with the mythology of everything they’ve set forth. It’s a matter of there being a will to get him back.
For whatever reason, they felt that whatever story is being told now requires Neal to be dead. That sucks – sucks big time – and you’re totally right in everyone and everything being off because of it. It boils down to, they are no longer telling the story that Once was founded on. In order to tell this new story, it will all have to be out of character. Because acting in character means Neal wouldn’t be dead. If Neal, Belle, Rumple, Emma, Snow, Charming etc was in character – he would have been brought back. He wouldn’t have died in the first place, because he wouldn’t have chosen dark magic; he wouldn’t have died in the first place because Belle would have done research. He would have been brought back via the alternate timeline because Rumple would NEVER have drank the forgetting potion. Or via TLK because Rumple would have told Emma to kiss him! Plus all of the other cheerleaders in this story who should have been like, “Uh, is there something we can do here?”
I still go back to A&E feeling that the only way to be true to these characters and still have CS happen is for Neal to be dead. The good news is, if down the line they are able to turn the tide, at least it will be easy to bring him back. Emma: Hey Rumple, do you still have the black fairy’s wand? Rumple: Yeah? Emma: K, let me borrow it, brb. *steps thru, grabs Neal by hand, steps back thru* Thanks Papa! Seriously. Cake.
The number of ways they could have brought him back, and the idiocy required NOT to bring him back, only speaks to the determination they had to have him dead. Which is what made the storytelling of 322 so bizarre. Guy must be dead but guy must guide story? Right. Seriously?
Bizarro world…
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I woke up early this morning and in sort of a melancholy mood, so I thought I’d try to write it out. Wrote a lot more than I intended (sorry, becoming a bad habit – I think I just need to get it all out) and had to pick it back up after work today! Anyways, melancholy stream-of-consciousness ramblings below.
Woke up and I’m just… I keep getting stuck on the coulda, woulda, shouldas of this story. But they don’t matter anymore, I suppose, what’s done is done. The more I ruminate on the situation, the more clear it is to me that somebody stuck their fingers in the pie where they shouldn’t have; whether A&E were truly powerless to stop it or whether they caved to pressure I’m not sure. Mostly, I AM sure that I have compassion for them, and that sucks even more than just being angry. Anger, I can fire off a bunch of hacked-off tweets and call it a day.
MRJ was A&E’s original vision for Prince Baelfire… how wrong it is that an actor they sought out speificially gets left out in the cold. (BTW his ‘new project’ tweet coming the day after upfronts was probably the first time he COULD talk about doing something else, contractually.) He’s exactly who they envisioned being perfect for their Princess Emma. Princess Emma, who is bada** enough that she slays dragons and catches bad guys and traps giants and wields a sword or a gun with equal confidence. Someone was talking last night about Maleficient, and thinking about the dragon-slaying… it made me realize we didn’t just lose half of our ship in 3B, we lost the whole thing. Bae might be dead, but equally, so is Emma’s character – gone is our anti-princess and in her place we have a girl who leaves her true love dead and ignores her kid in favor of making out with a pirate. Who IS that?
I’ve lost ships before; in fact, I have a ship that sailed beautifully but then sunk so hard that in my household we sometimes refer to it as the Titanic. But it’s one thing to lose something that was on a hope or a wish – there is nothing worse than losing something that you just KNOW wasn’t supposed to happen that way. It makes the struggle so much harder. The only thing I can liken it to (and this is so morbid, and probably just wrong,) is attending the funeral of your 87 year old Aunt Myrna. It’s sad, yeah, but she had a good life and it was time. But change that to a 25 or 30 year old cousin Myrna, and though the end result is the same – a beloved person gone from your life – it is somehow that much harder to deal with. And I think (for me at least) that’s the struggle now; this is a story that had had all of the hard work put into it and the setup was there and beautiful and all that was left was for it to mature and blossom. And then, bam, it was cut off at the knees.
I’ve wanted to write a post about how I’m so confused about the story they are trying to tell. I think it would be easier to handle all of this if they just killed Neal and let it go. 315 death, beginning of 316, funeral, by the end of 316, have her talking to Hook (as a friend) for comfort. Leave Neal behind and develop it over the next half-dozen episodes and end up in exactly the same place we did at the end of 322. Make it reasonable, and logical, let us SEE it and let it feel legitimate for Emma! But instead we see this story where she’s not attracted to him, fine. But worse, we had this bizarre situation where they were telling CS on the surface but still had SF as the undercurrent. That finale? That finale should not have made ANYONE happy. Us, as SF, for obvious reasons. But for CS? They did a two-hour CS movie, that was all about how Neal got her home.
If you break it down, the thing is, I haven’t a clue who Emma was before she met Neal. All we know – ALL we know – is she was a lost girl looking for a home and a family. Obviously she had some sort of street smarts; she had the knowledge and ability to steal a car. But beyond that, every SINGLE thing we know of Emma Swan comes back to her relationship with one Neal Cassidy. He didn’t just define home for her, he defined HER. And I don’t mean that in a chauvinistic way, that she was defined by her romance or her man, but rather that that relationship was so formative in her life that literally everything we learned about Emma in S1 can be traced back to things she learned – good and bad – from Neal. It set her on the road to who she is, and yeah, there was a lot of bad there. There was a lot of damage there, don’t misunderstand me, girl was royally screwed up. But with him she learned how to love, how to be loved, what it felt like to belong. She learned how to have moments of joy and levity between the stresses – it’s that same thing her father tried to tell her after Neverland. And she was able to grasp that, again, walking in the woods with Neal in 315… for that briefest of moments.
322 made it so, so crystal clear… ABC, you can have your CS, but WHO EMMA SWAN IS is defined by Neal. And maybe that’s why we’ve lost Emma this season; “story demanded” Neal be gone but when you erase him, you erase so much of what makes Emma Emma. “Story demanded,” more like, “ABC said we had to go CS, and in order to make that even remotely believable, the story demanded Neal be dead.” They couldn’t ever put Emma with Hook if Neal was around – it would be complete betrayal of what they had set up. It takes all of the pain and heartbreak of losing him for, like, the sixth time in order to get her to cave to the pressure. What that says about the CS relationship I’ll leave for you to mull over, but rebounds? Yeah, they never end well. Not while staying true-to-character, anyways.
I digress. So in 322 we have this big adventure, but at the undercurrent, there still is Neal. What a strange way to tell a story, on the surface. You have this girl getting together with this guy, “finally,” right? and they’re on this adventure… but every time you turn around, there’s a remnant of her dead ex. Um, okay? She’s having memories of their first date, she’s using stuff her taught her to save herself. “Nobody saves me but me.” Um, okay Emma. Pretty sure, like everyFREAKINGthing else, that was Neal who participated in the saving… considering you QUOTED him as you did it. “It’s all about the tumblers.” So they told that story, on 322, by opening it with Emma explaining why she’d spent the whole season trying to run back to NYC. She’s looking for home, and, “you just miss it.” As I watched that scene, apparently my radar was off because *I* certainly didn’t suspect that was a SF thing; why would I? Dead ship and all… But the adventure began and there’s Neal’s Dad – because he’s so intrinsicly tied to the story that you simply cannot eliminate him – and the conversation that sets up the adventure is, once again, about that boy. We hit the mid-episode break and we hear the real heart of the story; this conversation had a dozen years ago between Emma and the guy she’d loved ever since that moment. Everyone has their own headcanon, of course, but for me he fell for her before they’d even spoken, and for her – it was that moment there, on the swings, at the end of that scene. At a mimimum, I can be grateful to 322 for that. And so in that scene, there’s something else Neal taught her, picking locks – maybe not the most admirable skill, to be sure, but frankly it saved her life. (And Marian’s; there’s probably some poetry in the Robin Hood-Neal thief parallels and the fact that their thieving skills saved both of their loves. Something to unpack another time, perhaps.)
Because here’s the thing. He was a “bad guy,” a crook and a thief. You can rail on Neal for that all you want. I think the haters forget something, though – so was Emma!! They met because she was stealing his car, for heaven’s sake, it’s not like she was walking into a dress shop all innocent and sweet. She was ALREADY living a life of crime. She was ALREADY broken when she met him; she wasn’t some innocent kid from suburbia who had her life flipped on its head by this guy. There’s something to genetics, you know – her mom was a bandit (because she had to be,) and their kid has shown a penchant for thievery as well. Someone really should talk to him about that, by the way, perhaps he can break that particular family cycle. Clearly the one he was supposed to break, of having a functional relationship with his father, is not going to happen. Sigh. Anyways, Emma was no Disney-version Snow White, and everything she did with Neal, she was complicit with. The crime she went to jail for? ACTUALLY HER CRIME. She DID choose to retrieve known stolen property. It doesn’t erase Neal’s crimes, and while I have compassion for him for the August situation and don’t hold a ton of anger – of course it damaged Emma. It was damanging to their relationship, and it should have been. But she wasn’t some innocent flower, and that was their life together, they both participated in it. The Emma we all love has made some questionable choices in life, and those folks who love to rail on Neal really should realize that. How often has she used those street smarts to save herself? I can think of multiple occasions of lock-picking alone. What about getting out of the binds that Jefferson left her in by smashing the teacup? Not sure how or why that would be a Neal trick (somebody fanfic it!) but I’d lay money that was a Neal trick, too.
But back to 322 – so as they wrap around on the back end, and Hook pops through the portal, the conversation again comes back to… Neal. And Emma makes a great, enormous betrayal, a betrayal of pain and fear and frankly FAR WORSE than his lack of action in Portland. Are they even now? IMO, they are more than even. He broke her heart, removed her from society for less than a year, and led to her giving up their child. Fair enough – not cool. Emotionally wrecking. I get that. She ensured he remained out of society, permanently, and prevented him from EVER having a relationship with their child… or anyone else, for that matter. It’s worse, it’s way worse, and furthermore she did it without a noble cause. She was just too afraid of getting hurt to allow herself the possibility of a happy ending. At least Neal was trying to get her home.
Because that, apparently, is now Neal’s legacy on this show. He’s no longer her true love, her Tallahassee, her happy ending. He became her compass rose; the light on the path that said, “This way to home.” He defined it for her, the night they met – this is what home feels like, you’ll know when you find it. And he tried to provide that for her. The crazy ironic thing is, he could have. Their life in Tallahassee (or Canada, wherever,) would have been amazing, because they had each other, that missing piece of the puzzle they were each seeking. And they would have had Henry. She still would have wondered about her parents, for certain, but her life would have been real and complete and that giant gap in her heart could have begun to heal, with a family of her own. And that gap in HIS heart, left those hundreds of years earlier, would have been filled too – getting to be a good father to his own son, having someone pick HIM over everything else for once. But he was faced with a choice, and he chose for her to find those parents he knew she so desperately longed for, and to save the countless people his father had cursed – he chose to send her home. And (unknowingly) he gave her the child who brought her home… then sacrified again and again (three or four more times by my count) to make sure she got there. Through the portal, to keep her with her family and for the good of Henry – again, he could have pulled her through with him but chose to let her go – and at the town line. Then with the bird, he sacrificed memories (which could have allowed someone to make a plan for a safe magical separation, so, his life,) to get her BACK to her family, and finally his life again with the magical separation itself.
Is that all the character of Baelfire has been reduced to; a pawn in Emma’s story of home? I think of Adam’s tweet, back after 315 aired, when someone asked about why Neal didn’t deserve a happy ending. He replied with “In many ways, he achieved what he was after.” This was written, of course, with Adam’s post-322 perspective. So looking back at it now, with a post-322 perspective myself, all I can gather is that for them, Neal’s happy ending = Emma getting home. (I disagree wholeheartedly, but that’s neither here nor there.) Are we now supposed to feel that his entire point in her life was only ever to get her home? Is that supposed to be an irony for how all of the other characters became pawns in his father’s search to find him? So if Emma and her family became a casualty in the Baelfire story, which then led to Bae becoming a casualty in the Emma story, and the end result is Emma with her family and Rumple has lost Bae – then what was the point of the curse, really? What is the point of the SHOW? Wouldn’t we be at exactly the same place (or better, even,) if there had been no curse, Emma had been allowed to grow up in FTL with her parents in a functional family and Neal had been allowed to live out his life in LWM? The whole thing seems ridiculous and cyclical now.
And that, my friends, destroys the possibility for me that Once can ever truly be itself again. If I am being completely honest, had things gone the way they “should” have gone, I think to some degree that would also be true… the fabric of the show was set up to unite this tiny family, and the forward movement of the plot was sustained by it. Had we gotten a SF adventure and happy ending on 322, we still would have had to define a new show post-322. When you remove the motivation of so many of the characters, what is going to make them tick? Are they going to continue to use his death to push forward Rumple and Emma in S4? Doubtful. A true, authentic story should be Rumple trying to figure out how to bring Bae back, especially as he catches wind that Emma traveled through time. It should be Rumple FURIOUS at Emma for not giving him full disclosure during her little time travel jaunt. And for the LOVE OF ALL THINGS it should be Emma dealing with his death. Even if they want to remove their love story from it, if someone DIES ON YOUR LAP, you gather some emotional baggage from that. When it’s a man you loved, and the father of your child? Um. Yeah. Emotional damage shouldn’t even begin to touch it. And when you previously wished him dead, and then asked his father not to change history to bring him back – you don’t just turn around and move on, as if nothing ever occurred. That is soul-crushing stuff right there. It crushed MY soul, as someone who identifies with the Emma character. It should leave her absolutely shattered.
And I’m not sure to hope that they’ll actually deal with it, or hope that they never touch it again. Because here’s the thing. In text’s meta, she talks about wanting to stay plugged in here, and how that requires staying plugged in to Once in some form. And that is SO TRUE. The best thing for me, right now, would probably be to walk away from this community and never look back. But how is that fair? They have already taken away a story I was excited about, taken it away and then ground it into us how wonderful it really was. They shouldn’t get to take away my friends, too. That is just unbelievably cruel. But if I stay here, I am coming to terms with the fact that I am probably going to end up watching the show in the fall, even though I don’t want to. It’s like anything else – if you go cold turkey, you can make it happen, but staying here makes that impossible. And I don’t know what to expect from S4. Will it be horrible and nothing like the Once I once knew? Or, will it be like the latter part of 3B, where there are traces of the SF story everywhere, as the writers scramble to maintain some semblance of the story they WANTED to tell? Because honestly, that would be more horrible. Unless they are scheming some grand long-term plan for resurrection and reunion, I don’t want to see it any more. I don’t want to hear any more about how Neal provided Emma’s definition of a happy ending, her thoughts on what home life should be, how he felt their child should be raised, or anything, really. He is dead, and gone, and it hurts MORE every time you pick at that scab.
Which is why the baby’s name is so horrible. Nevermind that they named her *brother* after her *lover,* that’s disturbing enough. But EVERY time that child is in a scene, or mentioned, it’s going to pick a bit more at that wound. Maybe it’s by design, maybe it’s A&E’s way of ensuring the audience never forgets Henry’s father and Emma’s true love. Or maybe it’s by idiocy, intended as a fan pander without realizing that it’s not sweet, it’s hurtful. It’s stupid that it’s that one little thing that might make me give up on the show, but I dunno. Maybe they’ll come up with some other nickname to call the child and it won’t be so bad. But right now, it just feels like refusing to allow that wound to close.
And I guess, for my headcanon of how things went down BTS, it makes sense. Some stubbornness from guys who had their core story taken away from them, trying to hang onto some tiny piece of it in the most backwards way possible. They say they don’t ship, or that they ship the show, but inherently THIS is the fabric of the show, so it’s not about shipping, it’s about Once. You pull the strings out of the fabric, the whole thing WILL unravel.
And that’s where we went this season. Looking back, there were clear acknowledgements – which I saw at the time, but hoped would be used as bookends. They weren’t. The dreamcatcher in 312, the nightmare in 314 – the tangled web that is Once is now torn, and it is now a nightmare. They LITERALLY showed us the hole in the show, they LITERALLY told us we were entering a walking nightmare. It is everything it’s NOT supposed to be. How – HOW – do you write a show about fairytales, and SCREW UP the fairytale of the main protagonist? I mean, really? How do you do that?!
You can’t tell me, at the end of the day, Emma’s happy ending is going to be with Captain Hook. It’s just… not. He’s a stop on her road to somewhere, but this is a freaking fairytale. That is not going to be Emma Swan’s happy ending. Because being with a guy whose values and morals are so fully misaligned with your own is a surefire recipe for disaster. Especially when you embark on the relationship with eleven billionty things that have been hidden. My roomie postures that we will get CS until a few episodes from the end, so ABC can have them for marketing, and then the last few episodes A&E will fix it all. Her opinion is that based on what I’ve said about A&E (which is not always terribly favorable, although I have tried to keep it factual) that they won’t let the story they’ve prepared for ten years go so easily and that they WILL fix it by the end. She might be right. By the end of the series, the advertising has been sold and ABC doesn’t need to keep such a tight reign on what happens. I don’t watch it, but it sounds like How I Met Your Mother is a prime example of showrunners being allowed to do what they want at the end, audience be damned. Except, in this case, it wouldn’t so much be audience be damned, as fulfilling the story they set out to tell at the start. And as long as it’s a short arc, a season or even two, (and we don’t randomly end up with like six seasons of CS,) it should work out fine. (Incidentally, I’m reading a HIMYM finale reaction blog – to make sure I am understanding the events correctly – and MAN does that reaction sound familiar to us and many other fans after 322. You sold us one thing all along, and then pulled a fast one at the end? At least we’re not the only fans to be dealing with that, sigh.)
But for now, we end up back at Echo Cave… “I was hoping you were dead… because it would easier for me to put you behind me than to face all of the pain that we went through all over again.” And that was Emma’s choice, to put him behind her instead of facing the pain. Is that really, truly where they leave this story? Forget SF – is that really where they leave EMMA’S story? It makes me simultaneously angry at Emma and brokenhearted for her; obviously a reflection on my realization of a few days ago. It makes me absolutely gutted and brokenhearted to believe that this is where Emma’s character growth stops, and that she’ll never have that realization that sometimes you have to walk through the h*ll to get to the happiness. Yet, as much as I want to hope that we’re going to see that explored in S4 – that we see her have ANY sort of reaction to the trauma she underwent in the latter half of this season – I am completely missing that faith. I think we’re running into the problem where the true and authentic thing for the characters is at cross-purposes with what the network wants. If the network wants them to go CS, the ONLY way for that to happen is to stunt Emma’s character, maybe even regress it. Because an Emma showing growth would be fighting to overcome that, but instead, we found her in 3×22 at precisely the same spot as we found her in 3×06. And if the network-mandated story dictates that she stays there, then there is literally no hope for the show not to suck. Absolutely none.
So why am I still fanning this show again? *sigh*
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Lol ditto!! I had to go back and look.
As far as rewatching, I feel ya RG. I tried to go back and watch a favorite scene earlier today and had to turn it off. I seem to be ok with the swing scene but Echo Cave was a no-go. It probably wasn’t the smartest thing to try it but I was curious if I was there yet…
Anyways, I’m not at the point yet where I think I could go through and pick things out… although I was looking for something in an S1 transcript earlier today and was surprised how much I just ended up sucked into it & pulling out those parallels & breadcrumbs. But I know for me it will come eventually, given a few weeks. For me personally, the thing that got me from being a general viewer to a shipper was watching back through the series and seeing HOW MUCH they had buried in there. Being even more familiar with the story, now, I am finding even more stuff. And the fact of the matter is, for me, the way in which they told the SF story was absolutely ingenious and I’d like to see it catalogued somewhere.
I know that doesn’t work for everyone, so if it is too hard to have here in the thread, maybe we can find another home for it. For me, having the direction to go to while I come to terms with losing my fanning would be helpful (irony that it will take longer to get over losing it than it actually existed in my life.) But as always, I don’t want to be hurtful to anyone so if it’s too hard to have that here, I totally get it. I know we all deal in different ways and need different things, and I really really struggle with that line. But it is a legitimate thing to keep the thread alive, anyways.
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He’s not even Captain Hook anymore, is he? He’s Killian. He’ll get his hand back next season, betcha anything.
Maybe Whale can help with that. Or Rumple. He reattaches body parts, why not regenerate new ones? You know, make amends for old feuds and all that… *rolls eyes*
Onyx & Heather, I totally get that. The kids I nanny for have a billion Disney toys – it takes every bit of restraint I have not to use them to vent my frustrations, I swear. This morning, I was handed pieces of a tea set that included Snow’s dress, Ariel’s head and Lumiere as a stirring spoon. Lumiere may or may not have “accidentally” gotten tossed out of the play area, I just can’t go that far yet! NannyKid LOVES pirate-y stuff, especially Jake & the Neverland Pirates, and just, ugh. At least THAT Hook is so far from Once’s “Hook” that it’s easy to separate. Some characters are easier than others.
It’s funny, I’ve considered recently which fairly tales will be permanently ruined for me… I think Oz is done for. Peter Pan, weirdly, doesn’t seem to bother me too much – I think I associate it more with the Neverland arc than Hook himself – except for the ride at Disney. I watched a ride video with NannyKid and let out an involuntary whimper, because on the ride, YOU go out the nursery window while the Darlings stay behind in the nursery. That one, I suspect, will be a permanent reaction, because it’s closer to the Once story than the Disney story. (On the upside, the ride ends similarly to the photo on the last page… ;))
Also, Phee, you mentioned a few pages back wanting to do a project of finding all of the SF breadcrumbs in S1. I’d had a similar project on my “to-do” list for the summer. I’d kind of assumed it would need to be abandoned at this point – but on the other hand I almost still feel like it should be catalogued. Trying to decide if it’s more likely to cause MORE heartache by reminding of how amazing it all should have been… but part of what I loved so much about this fandom is pulling all of the pieces together, so why let go of that? Anyways, I know at one point there had been talk of a group watch-through; if there is interest from others, perhaps we could coordinate efforts and try to catalogue as a group. Not sure if it’s something you would prefer to do on your own, but it’s an idea – a project to get us through the next couple of months, anyways.
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I have a whole bunch of notes for a long post I want to write, but I just don’t have the energy tonight. Maybe tomorrow. In the interim, this is what happens when you have to clean up the playroom and find the crocodile flashlight in your walking path and figurines on the floor… Weirdly cathartic 😉
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^Someone needs to write that fanfic, now. Like yesterday, now. And I need to read it as soon as possible, sooner than immediately.
Like with everything else SF, the setup is so perfect, it should pretty much write itself. :p
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Oh, I feel ya RG. I’m pretty broken about it… honestly, there were a few things in 322 that felt like passing of the torch from SF to CS (for me, Prince Charles/Charley’s Girl is a huge huge one, and it stings more than it probably should… CG was not initially a SF thing but a NealFire thing, how they managed to hand that over is a pretty special piece of specialness.) So on one hand, all the fight has gone out of me. But on the other hand I look at the bits in 319-22 and wonder if there might not be pieces to dissect, for those that choose to view the story that way. That’s all I’m saying.
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