seriously, muse?

[rose_griffes]

Over 1000 words of fanfic written... from Don Moretti's POV. WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME, MUSE?! I don't understand why I should be writing about murderous old gangsters.

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[litlover12.livejournal.com]

Heh. Can't wait to read it!

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaah, your icon is awesome. Hee!

Fic progressing more tonight due to last-minute cancellation of lesson by piano teacher. So... maybe it'll get posted this week.

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why I should be writing about murderous old gangsters.

Maybe because bad guys are always the most interesting characters? Hmmm????

[litlover12.livejournal.com]

I've never believed that. Good guys can be very interesting indeed. Finch, for instance, is endlessly interesting. :-)

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, but that's why this show is so DAMN GOOD. All the characters are complex and interesting.

Usually writers don't have any idea how to write complexity for "good" characters. Especially female characters. I swear, if I see one more storyline where the only way the lazy writer could figure out to give a female character "drama" or "depth" was to have her be raped, I will scream!!!


(Sorry, pet peeve of mine for oh, probably the past 20 years. Goes all the way back to Miami Vice and Hunter and Hill Street Blues and, hell, every show ever on TV it seems...)

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

I quite emphatically loathe that particular plot choice. And it gets used everywhere--books, TV,movies, comic books. Though it's even worse when the woman's rape is used as motivation/character building for the man in her life. UGH.

(In fact, I was very hesitant about the whole "kidnap Taylor Carter" storyline because it hits some of those same buttons. Though I ended up quite liking the episode, in part because the writers didn't go the usual route with how that was addressed.)

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

I quite emphatically loathe that particular plot choice.

I think we all do. I've started thinking of it as a sign of shoddy writing staff on a show.

I was very hesitant about the whole "kidnap Taylor Carter" storyline because it hits some of those same buttons

The way the wrote it I think the kidnappers were lucky that they only had to deal with Reese. Carter would have gone all Momma Bear on their asses. Reese was clearly the less dangerous option as far as rescuers go. Yep, very satisfying episode as far as Carter storyline IMHO.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Carter would have gone all Momma Bear on their asses. Reese was clearly the less dangerous option as far as rescuers go. Yep, very satisfying episode as far as Carter storyline IMHO.
Heh. I wouldn't go quite so far as to say Reese was the less dangerous option, but I did enjoy having the male (who isn't even related) DO ANYTHING TO SAVE THE KID while the woman (who was characterized within the same episode as having those mother bear tendencies) was stoic and principled.

[litlover12.livejournal.com]

They've proven themselves quite adept at taking old tropes and making something original out of them. Just look at the baby episode that many of us thought was going to be all light and fluffy. :-)

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Yeah... light and fluffy and then POW, SHOT TO THE HEART FROM WHICH YOU WILL NEVER RECOVER.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Maybe because bad guys are always the most interesting characters? Hmmm????
Eh, sometimes. I think a good writer can make anyone/everyone interesting. Though I think it's harder to translate that well to a visual medium (TV, films). I wonder how much of that is because we can't get to all the interesting stuff in people's heads and how much is due to actors who relish playing villains--someone unlike their ordinary, mundane selves?

[litlover12.livejournal.com]

Excellent points.

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

Maybe because bad guys are always the most interesting characters? Hmmm????

I only say that because I might be working on an Elias story myself....

*whistles innocently*

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

I'm amused that my first reaction was EEEEK! Like somehow writing Elias's dad is any better?! heh

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

*laughs at both of us*

I saw that your story is already posted. I'll be giving it a read when I get home tonight.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Because he's a good cypher? *amused*

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Heh. Not so much, as it turns out. But it was fun in a weird way to write his POV.