Where Does It Go From Here

"Are you serious?"

That was the response I got to a post asking where do people honestly expect Joss to take his current 'plot twist'.

Well, yes, I was serious. I don't think this person quite understood the question that I was asking, but I was serious.

Just to get it out of the way, I don't have some outsized hatred of baby plots. Heck, looking back, I realize that one of the first fanfics I ever wrote was about a baby plot. (It was a X-Files Post-Requiem fanfic, Requiem being the episode where Scully announced that she was pregnant. Since Mulder was kidnapped by 'aliens' at the time and/or presumed dead, I created a plot where Scully investigated a case that had to do with alternate universes, and then she ended up in one... or rather her consciousness did. She found herself in a Scully-life where she had made different choices. Mulder was alive and around in that AU. And he needed her. The tension in the story was that Scully could have Mulder or she could have her baby pregnancy in the regular verse, but she couldn't have both. {She chose the baby.}) And one of my favorite shows is "Raising Hope".

There's nothing wrong with babies or mothers. But where this plot is concerned, I've got concerns (and not just because of the 'blackout drunk knockup'. Oh, I still have my concerns there as well, but that's not what I'm speaking about in this post.) The question I ponder is about the plot

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Where Does It Go From Here

"Are you serious?"

That was the response I got to a post asking where do people honestly expect Joss to take his current 'plot twist'.

Well, yes, I was serious. I don't think this person quite understood the question that I was asking, but I was serious.

Just to get it out of the way, I don't have some outsized hatred of baby plots. Heck, looking back, I realize that one of the first fanfics I ever wrote was about a baby plot. (It was a X-Files Post-Requiem fanfic, Requiem being the episode where Scully announced that she was pregnant. Since Mulder was kidnapped by 'aliens' at the time and/or presumed dead, I created a plot where Scully investigated a case that had to do with alternate universes, and then she ended up in one... or rather her consciousness did. She found herself in a Scully-life where she had made different choices. Mulder was alive and around in that AU. And he needed her. The tension in the story was that Scully could have Mulder or she could have her baby pregnancy in the regular verse, but she couldn't have both. {She chose the baby.}) And one of my favorite shows is "Raising Hope".

There's nothing wrong with babies or mothers. But where this plot is concerned, I've got concerns (and not just because of the 'blackout drunk knockup'. Oh, I still have my concerns there as well, but that's not what I'm speaking about in this post.) The question I ponder is about the plot

( Read more... )

Where Does It Go From Here

"Are you serious?"

That was the response I got to a post asking where do people honestly expect Joss to take his current 'plot twist'.

Well, yes, I was serious. I don't think this person quite understood the question that I was asking, but I was serious.

Just to get it out of the way, I don't have some outsized hatred of baby plots. Heck, looking back, I realize that one of the first fanfics I ever wrote was about a baby plot. (It was a X-Files Post-Requiem fanfic, Requiem being the episode where Scully announced that she was pregnant. Since Mulder was kidnapped by 'aliens' at the time and/or presumed dead, I created a plot where Scully investigated a case that had to do with alternate universes, and then she ended up in one... or rather her consciousness did. She found herself in a Scully-life where she had made different choices. Mulder was alive and around in that AU. And he needed her. The tension in the story was that Scully could have Mulder or she could have her baby pregnancy in the regular verse, but she couldn't have both. {She chose the baby.}) And one of my favorite shows is "Raising Hope".

There's nothing wrong with babies or mothers. But where this plot is concerned, I've got concerns (and not just because of the 'blackout drunk knockup'. Oh, I still have my concerns there as well, but that's not what I'm speaking about in this post.) The question I ponder is about the plot

( Read more... )