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« on: June 15, 2011, 10:42:30 pm » |
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The episode discussion has been full of tears and speculations about what's going to happen to the team and so on. I'm starting this thread because I don't think Leah is getting enough credit for her brilliant writing. Shadow Unit is a collective effort, of course...but Leah got the job of breaking the fourth wall into itty bitty glass shards, and then putting one in every Delta's heart.
Thank you, Leah.
Also, I hate you. Where's my Harpy?
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« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2011, 02:06:29 am » |
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True that. This is a simply awesome episode, and you did some really tricky work there, and pulled it off.
Well done. Not just with the stuff about piercing our hearts, but with showing us Sol's. He looks easy to write. I bet he really isn't, not if you want to really get him. I bet he's demanding as hell. (OK, demanding as an old journalist.)
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« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2011, 05:45:40 am » |
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Just want to echo all this.
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« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2011, 05:57:26 am » |
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Yes. This was beautifully done.
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« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2011, 07:01:04 am » |
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Picking up on both sides of this, first person Sol Todd was awesome, but to face killing off Daphne must have been a terrifying prospect. And the whole piece proceeded with the inevitability of a car crash, but with the standard of writing we've come to expect of the PTB.
I imagine there must have been a few bitten fingernails waiting to see the balance of the fan reaction. SU fandom is pretty much focused on the quality of the writing, and we know that if we don't want the PTB to play with our heads then we shouldn't leave them out in the open, but killing Daphne takes us one step beyond anything done before.
Kudos!
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« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2011, 08:17:22 am » |
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Picking up on both sides of this, first person Sol Todd was awesome, but to face killing off Daphne must have been a terrifying prospect. And the whole piece proceeded with the inevitability of a car crash, but with the standard of writing we've come to expect of the PTB.
Kudos!
This! Looks like we're starting to take the awesomeness of the ptb for granted. I kind of felt bad about saying that I *loved* this episode, while we were all in mourning. But I did. I love the SU moments that make me think, that really connect (without a lot of explanation), that are so well-written that you never have a loss of suspension-of-disbelief. That weave the fabric of the universe. This was one of these. |
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« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2011, 08:27:13 am » |
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You know, with this ep in real time, and some of it from the future... and here we are at the (vertex? focus? hello, math deltas?) spot-on-the-story-arc where we've just crested the hill... criminy. Anyway, what if Seasons 3&4 are set in the future?!? The fourth wall really disappears, because we can't look out into the real world for comparison. Eep?
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"I was waiting for the dotted yellow. I'm not Chaz." It was a rich, hallucinatory web of geometry...
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« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2011, 09:18:08 am » |
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The episode discussion has been full of tears and speculations about what's going to happen to the team and so on. I'm starting this thread because I don't think Leah is getting enough credit for her brilliant writing. Shadow Unit is a collective effort, of course...but Leah got the job of breaking the fourth wall into itty bitty glass shards, and then putting one in every Delta's heart.
Thank you, Leah.
Also, I hate you. Where's my Harpy?
Echo. That was beautiful, wrenching, painful, wonderful, I hate you, and you wrote a fantastic story. Thank you for breaking my heart. |
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« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2011, 09:40:02 am » |
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Thank you, Leah.
Also, I hate you. Where's my Harpy?
Echo. That was beautiful, wrenching, painful, wonderful, I hate you, and you wrote a fantastic story. Thank you for breaking my heart. Another echo here. |
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Still will I harvest beauty where it grows... --Edna ST. Vincent Millay
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« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2011, 03:20:11 pm » |
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Yeah.
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« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2011, 03:40:47 pm » |
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Thanks for your .sig, Glinda.
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« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2011, 05:12:34 pm » |
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I just wanted to say thanks for including the great big warning quotes throughout -- they did a wonderful job of both building tension and prepping me for the very painful ending.
Well done.
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« Reply #12 on: June 16, 2011, 07:49:31 pm » |
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If it wasn't so brilliantly written, it wouldn't hurt so much.
Also this "set back behind the shark-infested waters of a cracked grey asphalt parking lot" made me giggle. A lot. Sol and his weird and wonderful metaphors! Which of course means forcing the writers to come up with weird and wonderful Sol-type metaphors. There are a lot of them, especially in Part I, and the first part of Part II, before it's just not the place for them. That one in particular jumped out at me, though.
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« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2011, 02:11:01 am » |
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Thanks for your .sig, Glinda.
bwah? (You're welcome. Just an adaptation of Sol's "Breathe in. Breathe out. Move on." that shows up on the newscrawl now and then.) |
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« Reply #14 on: June 17, 2011, 03:12:41 am » |
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Thanks for your .sig, Glinda.
bwah? (You're welcome. Just an adaptation of Sol's "Breathe in. Breathe out. Move on." that shows up on the newscrawl now and then.) I've been thinking that very same thank you all week. Add me to the thankful ones. |
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