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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jenfullmoon

August 11 2015, 19:55:57 UTC 1 year ago

Ooooh, all of these are very good points! I'm wondering too.

Something that I was thinking about while reading this: how fairy tale can one choose to be? For example, Henry can't choose her looks, but she can choose to dress like an MIB rather than wear a stereotypical dress. How much flexibility is there? Ciara can dye her hair (and why does Bluebeard's wife have blue hair, anyway? Tried Googling for that and got nothing) but can't resist the pirate shirt. Sloane can sometimes choose to not poison drinks....

anne_d

August 11 2015, 20:25:23 UTC 1 year ago

About the blue hair and the pirate shirt - What if Ciara is really the Bluebeard, and her husband is the wife in this version, so to speak?

bree_ramsey314

August 11 2015, 20:48:45 UTC 1 year ago

It can't be ... I mean that would be ... devious. :P

Okay, I like devious, but if she's the Bluebeard, why does she have the key, and he's telling her not to look in the garage?

anne_d

August 11 2015, 21:02:23 UTC 1 year ago

If Ciara looks in the garage, her tale will activate and she'll start killing spouses, beginning with this one? I'm thinking full role reversal.

I think Seanan is more devious than any of us can imagine, and I can imagine quite a lot.

anne_d

August 11 2015, 21:04:22 UTC 1 year ago

Or I could be on completely the wrong track. This is so much fun!

bree_ramsey314

August 11 2015, 21:58:40 UTC 1 year ago

I'm tempted to say that doesn't hold together. In that scenario, Ciara is essentially both Bluebeard and the wife, and her hubby just some poor guy from outside the Index. That would mean the narrative pulled him in and is making him act out the part of Bluebeard.

But....

The narrative did try to drag Andy in with the Frog Prince, and was behaving in a much more aggressive manner at the end of Indexing. Maybe that was due to Birdie ... or maybe that's what the narrative wants everyone to think. Not saying I am ready to buy your theory, but I'm not prepared to reject it either. We shall have to wait and see!

jenfullmoon

August 11 2015, 20:51:21 UTC 1 year ago

OOOH EVEN BETTER.