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I had another thought about the Agent Carter finale
... well, not just ONE, but I was specifically thinking about something that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
xparrot said to me about White Collar, once upon a time.
She asked me, if I'd gotten exactly the ending that I wanted for White Collar, with everyone happy and all the loose ends tied up, if I would've still been as actively fannish about it as I am with something that is going to be forever in need of fixing.
My first reaction was "BUT I WANTED THE HAPPY ENDING!" but then I got to thinking about it and realized she's right. As much as I wanted an ending that would have tied a happy bow on the series ... would it really have left me with that desperate yearning to fill the gaps that makes me write fic? I really don't know. It certainly gave me years worth of fixit fodder, since there's literally no way to write fic after the finale without fixing it in some way ... but at the same time, the finale didn't destroy everything and salt the earth in a way that would make fixits impossible without going total AU (like some show finales I will not name).
And Agent Carter is kind of the same way. I got everything I wanted and would have had an absolutely perfect forever-ending if the show didn't get picked up ... and then the last thirty seconds of the episode happened. But it's those last thirty seconds that have spawned a million episode tags in my head. (I'm already working on another one and plotting a third one that's more of a plotty epic. Of course I am.)
It would really suck not to get a season three, though possibly not as much as it would suck (for me personally anyway) to get a season three that confirms he's really dead instead of mostly dead. But if the show does end with season two, it's an absolutely glorious springboard for writing all the fic forever ...
xparrot said to me about White Collar, once upon a time.She asked me, if I'd gotten exactly the ending that I wanted for White Collar, with everyone happy and all the loose ends tied up, if I would've still been as actively fannish about it as I am with something that is going to be forever in need of fixing.
My first reaction was "BUT I WANTED THE HAPPY ENDING!" but then I got to thinking about it and realized she's right. As much as I wanted an ending that would have tied a happy bow on the series ... would it really have left me with that desperate yearning to fill the gaps that makes me write fic? I really don't know. It certainly gave me years worth of fixit fodder, since there's literally no way to write fic after the finale without fixing it in some way ... but at the same time, the finale didn't destroy everything and salt the earth in a way that would make fixits impossible without going total AU (like some show finales I will not name).
And Agent Carter is kind of the same way. I got everything I wanted and would have had an absolutely perfect forever-ending if the show didn't get picked up ... and then the last thirty seconds of the episode happened. But it's those last thirty seconds that have spawned a million episode tags in my head. (I'm already working on another one and plotting a third one that's more of a plotty epic. Of course I am.)
It would really suck not to get a season three, though possibly not as much as it would suck (for me personally anyway) to get a season three that confirms he's really dead instead of mostly dead. But if the show does end with season two, it's an absolutely glorious springboard for writing all the fic forever ...
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If I were in your position I would honestly at this point almost hope for no season 3 to avoid him being confirmed dead, but I am jaded and bitter about these things now. >.>
*grin* Here's to epics, because of course they are?
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In the meantime, there's fanfic. :D