wow that was powerful. i love how you tied the things from the previous tasks into the current ones, and the ability to confuse while being deep is truly a great one. this is such a great prequel to your other fic, it makes me like the other one as well so much better for it, though it stood on its own well enough.
Thank you. My thought was that this story could be converted into a actual script with the main actors (save Merlin) performing their parallel roles. It'd be tricky to explain why Arthur didn't recognize them immediately (prosthetics, maybe?) but other than that it would be interesting.
My, that was beautifully done. Lovely images, parallels.
I want more! Please? Are you planning a sequel? Someone else commented that this story is a good prequel to your other fiction. What story/stories does she mean?
Re: beautifulcatbird_talesFebruary 8 2010, 20:36:50 UTC
Thank you for reading! I don't think I'm going to write any more in this verse unless Series Three presents more continuity problems, but I've currently got a deliciously cracky coda for 2x13 in mind.
I loved all the trials that Arthur took and how each one built on the other. Loved that Arthur forgot about Merlin and their destiny and that he was determined to find out what was different about him. Great job.
Originally, each of the trials was meant to represent a destiny that Arthur needed to reject (i.e. forgetting his advisors, ignoring his people, becoming his father.) That theme kind of faded away as I realized the story worked better/was more awesome as a straight-up epic fairytale quest.
I loved the original story and felt you had done a great job with tying the lose ends of the character assassination the script writers had made with Arthur in the fist half of S2.
This was a lovely tye in and as I am particularly fond of Fairy tales the prose and quests fitted that imagery perfectly. I kept thinking of the old addige about people in glasses house all the way through. It was interesting that Arthur never fully got that aspect but somehow knew that he couldn't allow the loss of his friend, even if he wasn't exactly sure that it was Merlin.
Really great work, I kind of would like to see a final part to this verse to really bring it all together. I don't think it really needs it, I just like this verse and want more that's all :)
Fairy tales are a particular passion of mine. I think in the end I drew elements from over a dozen to flesh out the story I wanted, though the whole time I had to remind myself "Not too overtly magical! Arthur isn't that different yet from Uther (i.e. attack magic first and ask questions later.)" I'm glad you found the atmosphere worked for you.
I think I'm going to try writing something lighter first for a change, but if the writers try another reset button in Series Three, expect to see more spackling from me.
(Uh, Kilgharrah flapped his amnesia wings and POOF! Everything in Camelot was restored to pre-burnination times and Sir Leon totally wasn't dead. *nods* Totally.)
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i love how you tied the things from the previous tasks into the current ones, and the ability to confuse while being deep is truly a great one.
this is such a great prequel to your other fic, it makes me like the other one as well so much better for it, though it stood on its own well enough.
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This was a lovely tye in and as I am particularly fond of Fairy tales the prose and quests fitted that imagery perfectly.
I kept thinking of the old addige about people in glasses house all the way through. It was interesting that Arthur never fully got that aspect but somehow knew that he couldn't allow the loss of his friend, even if he wasn't exactly sure that it was Merlin.
Really great work, I kind of would like to see a final part to this verse to really bring it all together. I don't think it really needs it, I just like this verse and want more that's all :)
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I think I'm going to try writing something lighter first for a change, but if the writers try another reset button in Series Three, expect to see more spackling from me.
(Uh, Kilgharrah flapped his amnesia wings and POOF! Everything in Camelot was restored to pre-burnination times and Sir Leon totally wasn't dead. *nods* Totally.)
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