Writing and Season Finales

[afrozenflower]

Outlined a little today. Now I know more or less how I'm going to end this fic, but I still have to tie some strings. But eh, I'm not going to worry about them until I reach that point. Also, I finally started to write again. There is this scene that has been nagging me for days now. No matter how much I fix it, I'm still unsatisfied with it. Ugh. I'm tempted to just leave it for a couple of days then come back to it, but it is really important to the plot that I can't write anything after that scene without knowing exactly how it ends. Hopefully I will reach to some sort of ending to it today and move on.

Most shows already aired their season finales and that reminds me of how many I need to catch up to/start to watch. Ahhh so manyyy.
My priorities at the moment are to catch up to Supernatural (and maybe Game of Thrones? Depends on whether I get to read book 4 and 5 soon or not.) and start a new show. I haven't decided on one yet. (Hannibal? Teen Wolf? S.H.E.I.L.D?) so we will see.
Oh, and I want to re-watch Merlin. I miss it terribly.

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[afrozenflower]

Yeah, I heard that they changed a lot of things, which really pisses me off. I can get that if they changed some things because it would be difficult to do on screen, but some of the spoilers I've heard are just completely unnecessary. And in the new season, they spoil some stuff from Winds of Winter, the sixth book which isn't published. If I do watch the show, I won't watch that season until I've read the book. No way will I get spoiled by the show.

I suppose it is my turn to apologise for suddenly disappearing? Didn't mean it, but real life just cut me off the online world for a while.

My WIPs are getting out of hand lately. They are all over the place and I just don't have the energy these days to sort through them and figure out what I want to focus on. Hopefully that will stop soon, because I really should figure out what I'm going to do, especially now with Camp NaNoWriMo starting in two weeks.

"I did have a character express interest in a different character that I did not even intend them to have interest in at all! or not much at all."
That did happen with me a while ago. One of my WIPs is a Merlin fanfic and in it I have a couple of original characters. While in the middle of writing it, I realised that Morgana was starting to show romantic interest in one of them. I was like "What? No, this shouldn't happen." But it did. And now I just have to deal with it.
Why can't our characters just listen to us?

"That is the sort of thing that makes me wish that during the final season (for an entire season at least), Arthur had known."
Yes, this would have been really interesting to see. I have started watching Merlin knowing that Arthur would die at the end, but I was hoping that he would find out that Merlin was a sorcerer a lot sooner. Wasn't convincing him that magic should be allowed one of the things that Merlin wanted to do? And sure Arthur did, but it was at the very end. We didn't have time to enjoy it before he died.

I haven't finished a lot of TV shows, because they are either 1) seemingly never-ending (Ex: Supernatural) b) I got bored/tired of them (Ex: The Vampire Diaries, Glee.)

[star_swan]

Now I must apologize for vanishing. ^^;;
Work became extreme and in between I was reading books for research and writing.

I certainly want to come to Winds of Winter without spoilers. That is lame. He could give them all that they need to know and just proceed in order season by season. Sheesh.

Basically, all WIPs must bow down before the main one. I consider them fun detours that still sharpen my writing skills until a later date.
I am glad in this instance that my characters did what they wanted as it is turning out to be more interesting that what I had planned. :)

Wasn't convincing him that magic should be allowed one of the things that Merlin wanted to do?

Yes! What about the Epic Partnership to Unite The Lands of Albion? We never really saw the Glory Days of Merlin and Arthur. At least Queen Gwen knows. Still.
I always thought that Arthur (depending on which myth or retelling you read) made it to middle age before dying/going off to Avalon. He still died sooner than he ought to have but I envisioned him as being like 40-something. Like early 40s. It is hard to discern how much time elapses in the show but they look to be about late 20s. :P I forget how old the actors are. Arthur totally died prematurely.

Yeah. I can't commit to crazily long tv shows either...
..unless I start out early on and become besotted, which is rare.

[afrozenflower]

No worries. I know how life can be overwhelming and distracting at times. :)

The other day I was just scrolling through Twitter, carefully avoiding spoilers because everyone had just watched the finale a couple of days ago when a fucking program on the TV decided to just say the names of the people who died in the finale. And I just... I was so shocked that I didn't recover quickly enough and got spoiled for two characters. Ugghhhh. Whenever I remember this, I get so angry. It just ruined everything for me. I heard rumours about one of those characters, but it was unconfirmed because apparently it happened at the end of book 5 and no one is sure they died. (Remember the whole thing with Cat? They said it might be something along to this.) So I'm not exactly sad for that character, and I wasn't surprised for the other because let's be honest, this is ASoIaF, everyone will die. But I was just angry that I got spoiled. And I just unfollowed everything GoT-related on my social media, even the ones who are careful with spoilers, because fuck it, I will not get spoiled for the sixth book.

Writing is fun no matter what, and that's why I put up with it even when my mind is constantly shifting between stories, rarely focusing on just one.
Characters can really surprise you in pleasant ways sometimes. Like this one time, one of my characters killed someone accidently. I was actually shocked when it occurred to me but later on it made sense in the context of his development and it will actually help him later in the story. I guess my subconscious was trying to send me a message? :D

Yes! So many things we didn't get to see, so many things that the writers just gave us glimpses about but not enough to satisfy us. Characters like Gwaine, Mordred, the Druids.. They had so much story potential. So many things that could be developed. And I realise that the writers were focusing on Arthur and Merlin because Merlin couldn't leave Arthur and couldn't trust someone else enough to talk about his magic, but I had hoped that, once Arthur finally accepts magic, they can start working on other plotlines.

Also, I really didn't like some of the deaths in the series. Not because they were sad (They were. They broke my heart.) but because they just left me empty and unsatisfied. For example, Lancelot's death. It was honourable and brave and all that, but once I've read more about the original Arthurian mythology, I really had hoped they would work on the whole love triangles between Arthur, Gwen, and Lancelot more. I hate love triangles, but this one could have been really interesting, could have been taken in a lot of ways. I didn't want it to end like how it ended in the original mythology, with Camelot falling apart, but I wanted to see an alternative ending. Like Arthur ending up with Merlin. I don't know really. I suppose the writers never wanted to focus on that but ugh. So much potential. They could have made another five seasons with all the plot threads they had. I love the ending, but I honestly think it would have been better if the TV show was longer, both from a fangirl and a casual viewer's perspective.

Yeah, the show skipped a lot of years though the seasons that it is hard to exactly know how much time has passed. Especially since some of the actors and actresses look so young.

Welp. Long reply.