Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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INDEXING: REFLECTIONS episode #1, "Forbidden Doors."

The first episode of Indexing: Reflections is available now! This is your talkpost and discussion zone. There will be spoilers in the comments here. As always on talkposts, I have partial comment amnesty, and will not be responding to everything.

"Forbidden Doors" was a fun episode to write. It's sort of our season premiere, and I framed it like an episode of Law & Order: SVU involving internal affairs. Ciara Bloomfield is manifest story adjacent; in her original tale, she would never even have gotten a name. I appreciate that. With all these princesses running around, it can be easy to forget just how big the fairy tale world is.

It never forgets.

Game on!
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bree_ramsey314

August 11 2015, 19:04:57 UTC 1 year ago

I imagine putting the key someplace safe and hard to get to isn't an option, the narrative won't allow her to do that.

gement

August 11 2015, 19:25:57 UTC 1 year ago

I wouldn't like to risk how he might react if he thought you lost the key.

deor

August 12 2015, 18:00:17 UTC 1 year ago

Hmm. Point. Still, carrying it around rather increases that risk, Could ceremoniously lock it in a home safe, or put it on a mantel or something.

Really wondering what his POV is, and whether she's right in her assumption that because he hasn't been married before, he can't have already been a murderer.

skelody

August 13 2015, 02:45:35 UTC 1 year ago

Well, *we* know he hasn't murdered anyone because Seanan has explicitly said he's committed no crimes and there's nothing for Ciara to actually find. As for Ciara, there was something said about her activating the Bluebeard story, so perhaps she had a particular experience (or a special device) that confirmed the activation, hence confirming that he *hadn't* been playing the Bluebeard role before?

fooliv

August 14 2015, 19:17:46 UTC 1 year ago

I find the comments about how they share interests to be kind of disquieting in a Bluebeard context. That could cover all sorts of sketchiness, from harmless BDSM playacting to couples-therapy serial-killing sprees.

skelody

August 14 2015, 19:21:02 UTC 1 year ago

If we believe Word of God, it would have to be non-criminal serial-killing, which I'm trying to figure out what that would be. I feel certain that human ingenuity would cover this somehow -- aside from institutionally sanctioned forms of murder, of course, which would be noncriminal but typically not considered "serial killing".