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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gement

August 11 2015, 16:53:26 UTC 1 year ago Edited:  August 11 2015, 17:03:42 UTC

I'm pondering rag-tag bunches of misfits.

- Brementown Musicians (type 130) - Group of animals standing on each others' shoulders impersonate a loud and terrifying human to scare off criminals.

- The Six Servants (type 513A) - one can lift anything, one can swallow the sea, etc., and they each cross an individual challenge to meet the objective.

These are just the ones that spring to mind from my own childhood. Anyone have others to add to the list?

My source for codes since I don't own the tome:
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimmtales.html
(Edit: Yes, Wikipedia has the list too, but didn't help me match up the names I remembered.)

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On a completely different note, I would be SO TERRIBLE at keeping a Bluebeard in abeyance. I want to know if the Agency has tested having a third party X-ray the forbidden garage without telling the wife. Does that trigger the bad ending, or can they arrest the bastard without involving her?

(I do not expect any answer on this topic as it is clearly a subject for current possible plot tension. I just want the damn X-ray results. I would so die in that story.)

seanan_mcguire

August 11 2015, 19:42:47 UTC 1 year ago

Because Ciara is the FIRST wife, there's nothing to find. It's her ignoring a seemingly reasonable request that triggers the rest of his story. Right now, he's committed no crimes, and pre-crime isn't a thing even in this world.

lilisonna

August 11 2015, 22:39:52 UTC 1 year ago

That's what I understood from the episode, but thanks for the clarification!

gement

August 12 2015, 00:33:46 UTC 1 year ago

Thanks emphatically for the clarification; for obvious real world potential parallel issues, I was reeeeeeal suspicious about villainy leakage there, so I will just set my mind at rest about the garage, knowing the author has X-rayed it.

(I would be so dead in this story.)

I do also love the possibility of a flip in that relationship. She does have an "if I told you, I would have to kill you" job...