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....

bree_ramsey314

August 11 2015, 20:45:06 UTC 1 year ago

I can't offer an authoritative answer, of course, but my take would be this: the narrative does whatever it can to pull you into the story, and one way of doing that is to make you stand out in the 'real world.' Maybe there's a limit to how far one can 'defy' their story; Henry can't do anything about her physical appearance (She could color her hair, but really, what would be the point?) but she can dress the way she does and go by a name that doesn't even hint at 'princess.' Ciara can bleach her hair to hide that particular manifestation, but maybe that's the limit of her defiance.