She believed that Fate is not a constant, written at birth, but claimed.
Oh, I like this.
We get to write the last line of a life as a grand gesture. We control Fate – if only by proxy.
Mm, yes. Death as it should be. I think also there's something in us that needs the completion. So often in series, that's what we don't really get--either we're kept hanging on from episode to episode, season to season, or the show's canceled and we're left wanting more. Or writers use death as a tool to keep a character or a relationship from changing. Romeo and Juliet is so gosh darn romantic because they never get the boring, unromantic parts of the relationship.
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Date: 2007-10-13 12:12 am (UTC)Oh, I like this.
We get to write the last line of a life as a grand gesture. We control Fate – if only by proxy.
Mm, yes. Death as it should be. I think also there's something in us that needs the completion. So often in series, that's what we don't really get--either we're kept hanging on from episode to episode, season to season, or the show's canceled and we're left wanting more. Or writers use death as a tool to keep a character or a relationship from changing. Romeo and Juliet is so gosh darn romantic because they never get the boring, unromantic parts of the relationship.
Or something like that...