Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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INDEXING: REFLECTIONS episode #8: "Holly Tree."

The eighth episode of Indexing: Reflections is available today! 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.

"Holly Tree" is important. I've been keeping mum about a lot of things while I waited for us to get here. Oh, Amity...

One of the big things I've had to keep my mouth shut on is Sloane's tale type. Several people have noticed that she's categorized wrong; "The Cruel Sister" has nothing to do with Cinderella, or with the specific trappings of Sloane's tale. Sloane's actual tale type is unknown, because sometimes, trying to force things into a structure is a good way to wind up getting them incorrect; the ATI MB thinks they know what they have, because someone chose a label, and someone else put that label on a file.

They have no idea.

Once upon a time...
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beccastareyes

November 18 2015, 02:39:14 UTC 1 year ago

Sloane also once yelled at a forming Rapunzel story until it broke, which makes me wonder if it's broader than that.

lysystratae

November 18 2015, 02:44:24 UTC 1 year ago

That's true

deor

November 19 2015, 01:40:54 UTC 1 year ago

And let's not forget how she broke a Peter Pan story. :-)

beccastareyes

November 19 2015, 02:41:23 UTC 1 year ago

True! And now I want to reread to look at what I first read as Sloane's experience that now might be signs that the story responds to her will a long more strongly than other people's.

(I assume experience helps, in that she knows where to apply pressure. What works on a Peter Pan won't work on many other tale-types. :-) )