{ a second glance leaves the whole nation in ruins. }

[delga]

I've been trying to get my numb3rswom3n challenge fic off the ground, and as ever I have only the vaguest idea of what I want the fic to be about. I feel like I should try and write about Amita, or Liz, or someone, but I just want to write about Megan. Which is fine, except I feel like I'm treading over old ground in terms of how far I can go with her. I think I summed it best in the episode review: Megan is about repair, and post-Janus List, that repair is increasingly more difficult. The prompt I've been given is excellent, and I know what to do with it. I just don't know if I can pull it off. There's a way in which this fic can be about more than just Reeves, but, again, I don't know.

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Last night C4 showed House of Flying Daggers which lacks the overall scope of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but has some interesting visual tropes. I missed it the first time around but the film is divided by seasons. The colour themes are more noticeable in this film than in Crouching Tiger, but there's considerably less use of wire-fu which grounds the action. It's odd because Crouching Tiger uses a lot of wire-fu but the narrative is pretty stable, whilst Flying Daggers is almost more real but has the airy quality of a tragic romance to it. Neither film is as spacious or self-involved as Hero, which works in their favour - but then, Hero is a film about the mind more than the body, so it gets away with it. All three are shamelessly wuxia genre films, but that's the appeal. Beautiful landscapes, beautiful cinematography.

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Unsurprising, I know, but I'd love to see this film. Yeoh, Cheung and Sui in one film? Oiskie. Flying Daggers is dedicated to Sui who was supposed to play the new leader of the underground movement, but died of cervical cancer during production. I only saw the dedication last night. I knew she'd died, I just never knew when.

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When people make icons for episodes as quickly as possible after an episode airs, it makes me laugh. That said, there were a couple of shots in Trust Metric that I loved, so I think I might cap and icon those myself.

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But, see, Amita so far is in a bit of a rut because I don't understand her characterisation outside of Charlie, and right now, there is no her outside Charlie, which is distressing to say the least. But of everyone in the show, Amita is most like water, most able to adapt, and secretly - or so I'd like to think - powerful. So maybe there's more to her than we anticipate, and maybe that's what we should be writing about.

Comments

[asemic.livejournal.com]

You should write Amita. I like Amita because my fanon overshadows what little development has been given to her. She tends to get shafted in fandom (you have no idea how many times I've read "Ugh, Amita and Charlie...I choose to ignore them") or she becomes someone's personal Mary Sue who can fuck Charlie.

Gah.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I was reading one of my earlier fics which was Amita(/Charlie) centric, and I realised: I don't actually think of her in the way that I originally wrote her. So I'm more than tempted to write her this time around. I have two half-drafts, I'll just have to see which one takes me.

"Ugh, Amita and Charlie...I choose to ignore them"
Yeah, I read that a lot, too, and it strikes me as one of the ignorances of the fandom. I don't want to ignore them, but I want to do them justice without making either character less than what they are.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Well, as I said above, I've got two drafts on the go (I get stuck after the beginning, it's a pain) so we'll see. I want to do the character justice, though, you know? Because I'm tired of seeing her hollowed out, or - as is often the case, and annoys me a lot - deleted from the setting. I mean, I know it's a pretty boyslash-fuelled fandom, but please.

Heh, no, sorry. The comments present in white, I think? Maybe. But the majority of the text is gray. Sorry!