I definitely have my complaints about season 13, mostly with regard to dropped plot threads that could have been really interesting with more time to develop and resolve them (the Counselor, Maine's armor, and Wash and Carolina felt like they should have all coalesced at the end and they never did, no two of those things were EVER onscreen at the same time). Despite all of that, it is probably my favorite season to date and I think it really is one of the strongest all around, for the sheer amount of stuff it manages to get spectacularly right. I have accepted at this point that the creator effort behind season 13 was a golden age to which RvB will never return and I'm trying to live with that, in a "we'll always have Paris" sort of way.
The Locus and Wash stuff also landed a bit better for me on recent rewatches. I still get really touchy at the implication that our surviving Freelancers are anything like the mercs when their situations, motives, and actions were *entirely* different. But discussing it with some other people and wrestling with it myself has managed to shake out some more nuance in the parallel for me such that it kind of almost works if I squint a bit. More importantly I can find a reading of it that works for me, authorial intent be damned.
I wish the very best in your writing and deeply look forward to seeing the next phase of the story.
Godspeed, indeed. I am interested to hear what you think about the merc prequel.
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Date: 2019-06-24 03:03 pm (UTC)The Locus and Wash stuff also landed a bit better for me on recent rewatches. I still get really touchy at the implication that our surviving Freelancers are anything like the mercs when their situations, motives, and actions were *entirely* different. But discussing it with some other people and wrestling with it myself has managed to shake out some more nuance in the parallel for me such that it kind of almost works if I squint a bit. More importantly I can find a reading of it that works for me, authorial intent be damned.
I wish the very best in your writing and deeply look forward to seeing the next phase of the story.
Godspeed, indeed. I am interested to hear what you think about the merc prequel.