Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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INDEXING: REFLECTIONS episode #2, "Broken Glass."

The second 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.

"Broken Glass" was originally blocked as the first episode of the season, before I realized that things would flow better if it came after the episode with internal affairs. It also sets up one of the big themes for this season: the idea that when the stories can't get you in their "pure" forms, there's always a chance that they'll take a step back and try another, equally deadly, way.

Fairy tales are flexible.

Game on!
Tags: fairy tale remix, indexing, release dates
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evaleastaristev

August 26 2015, 02:02:59 UTC 1 year ago

Wait, I know Birdie fucked with the stories, but they can CHANGE THEMSELVES? AFTER ACTIVATION?

Officially terrified.

And that prison HAS to go. That is just not nice, even if they've been placed in the "bad guy" role.

bree_ramsey314

August 26 2015, 02:25:17 UTC 1 year ago Edited:  August 26 2015, 02:28:04 UTC

It's not so much that the story changed itself, Elise made it change.

We already have precedent for this. Gerry changed his story, escaped it in fact, and in so doing, he changed Henry's as well. Of course that was rather minor compared to this, as Henry is still a Snow White.

And yes, the prison is a horrible place. Unfortunately fairy tale characters aren't protected by the Constitution. They aren't even protected by copyright law.

gement

August 26 2015, 19:58:19 UTC 1 year ago

Not that mundane prisons are actually doing better on this front. Honestly, the veil on this social commentary is (rightly) thin as cobweb. The entire structure of prisons, at least in the US, exists to make people as depressed and miserable as possible, and it's brutally indiscriminate about it.

I am making a small internal bet on which chapter we get to find out what Elise was muttering. I'm going with 60% "next chapter" because it's a short game data point that leads to the long game.

If it's not revealed next chapter, I'm betting we don't find out until at least Chapter 8 because it's crucial to the long game.

seanan_mcguire

August 26 2015, 21:04:20 UTC 1 year ago

Elise changed her own story, which she had been trying to do all along.