metametameta......
Because I am feeling very threatrical in lieu of the new year. Yes, there are spoilers.
I read about the end before I saw it.
I read about it with this horrid sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, because, after all it is my Robin Hood otp. How could anything come out of this, this complete and utter destruction of my pair. Suddenly there was nothing for me to fix, no clever lines to write, no wriggle room in the net. So I resigned myself, and I watched the scene, fast fowarded through the entire episode. And it was as awful and as meaningless as I had feared. Just a few hours before I had watched Treasure of the Nation with awe; of when did this show get this good? Sicne when could I hear such range of emotion from both of Guy and of Marian? But of course that was not to be.
I have always enjoyed closed canons, and I think that Robin Hood will become that to me in the wake of this. I see no reason for me to carry on into season 3, now that the subtlety has been removed. Not to mention all of the women. I know that fandom is very divided here, part grieving the loss of Marian and part jubilant over her death. I find myself belonging to neither group. I cannot grieve the loss of Marian as herself because I have never seen her just by herself, but alway in conjuction with Guy, their relationship with all its pretty cruelties and heartbreaking gentleness was the driving force for me.
Meybe now I can feel liberated enough to return to fic in this fandom. I don't have to worry about the changes in canon, now that the final and irreversible has happened. My chanracters can now freely carry on a different path. Because she is gone from canon, Marian's life is more free to carry on in fic, liberated from the constraints which we as fanfiction writers bind ourselves in. In a way it is a joy that there is nothing new to add to her, nothing which I change will be contested later on.
Yes. I am a writer of closed canons; and today I shall begin.
When a door closes, a window opens. Yes, indeed, Torchwood is to return to our screens this January. The rumors and the confirmed spoilers have all been great. With giddy anticipation I wait for the bginning, but I cannot help but to worry slightly. For the BBC and RTD have annouced that cut versions will be aired before the watershed for the younger viewers. I worry because I fear that this decision will undermine the rebellion and strangeness that is Torchwood. What drew me to it in the first place was the way it differed from American serials: it's violence and sex; storylines wich would not conform. But you cannot maintain such style and content when the shows are to be edited, merely by a few minutes.
Let us examine Countrycide. For me it was one of the most powerfull episodes of the series. Its violence truly shocking, truly horrific; and its emotional power truly beautiful. But you could not cut it for a pre watershed audience. You would have to remove so much and in that you would take away the heart and the power of the story. And now I fear that Torchwood can no longer tell stories like that because it needs to appease the younger, and the nilly willy who will be supervising the watershed like hawks. I do not want a series that compromices its content for the sake of wider audinece. There are too many series like that already on TV, I have no need for one more.
I read about the end before I saw it.
I read about it with this horrid sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, because, after all it is my Robin Hood otp. How could anything come out of this, this complete and utter destruction of my pair. Suddenly there was nothing for me to fix, no clever lines to write, no wriggle room in the net. So I resigned myself, and I watched the scene, fast fowarded through the entire episode. And it was as awful and as meaningless as I had feared. Just a few hours before I had watched Treasure of the Nation with awe; of when did this show get this good? Sicne when could I hear such range of emotion from both of Guy and of Marian? But of course that was not to be.
I have always enjoyed closed canons, and I think that Robin Hood will become that to me in the wake of this. I see no reason for me to carry on into season 3, now that the subtlety has been removed. Not to mention all of the women. I know that fandom is very divided here, part grieving the loss of Marian and part jubilant over her death. I find myself belonging to neither group. I cannot grieve the loss of Marian as herself because I have never seen her just by herself, but alway in conjuction with Guy, their relationship with all its pretty cruelties and heartbreaking gentleness was the driving force for me.
Meybe now I can feel liberated enough to return to fic in this fandom. I don't have to worry about the changes in canon, now that the final and irreversible has happened. My chanracters can now freely carry on a different path. Because she is gone from canon, Marian's life is more free to carry on in fic, liberated from the constraints which we as fanfiction writers bind ourselves in. In a way it is a joy that there is nothing new to add to her, nothing which I change will be contested later on.
Yes. I am a writer of closed canons; and today I shall begin.
When a door closes, a window opens. Yes, indeed, Torchwood is to return to our screens this January. The rumors and the confirmed spoilers have all been great. With giddy anticipation I wait for the bginning, but I cannot help but to worry slightly. For the BBC and RTD have annouced that cut versions will be aired before the watershed for the younger viewers. I worry because I fear that this decision will undermine the rebellion and strangeness that is Torchwood. What drew me to it in the first place was the way it differed from American serials: it's violence and sex; storylines wich would not conform. But you cannot maintain such style and content when the shows are to be edited, merely by a few minutes.
Let us examine Countrycide. For me it was one of the most powerfull episodes of the series. Its violence truly shocking, truly horrific; and its emotional power truly beautiful. But you could not cut it for a pre watershed audience. You would have to remove so much and in that you would take away the heart and the power of the story. And now I fear that Torchwood can no longer tell stories like that because it needs to appease the younger, and the nilly willy who will be supervising the watershed like hawks. I do not want a series that compromices its content for the sake of wider audinece. There are too many series like that already on TV, I have no need for one more.