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... I don't really want to do this.
May. 15th, 2011 09:15 amBut a very vague plunnie keeps lingering anyway, so maybe I'll put it down and get it out of the way.
A well-known and probably overly cliche plot device is the repeating day and/or series of events. Mysterious Ways used it. The X-Files used it. I think it started with the movie Groundhog Day, but I could be wrong and it goes back further than that.
The one for Mysterious Ways was especially heartbreaking. It involved a cop whose partner had been killed in the line of duty. Then the day repeats and he hopes he has a chance to save his partner's life. But it still ends with the man's death (albeit under different circumstances).
That made me think of this Star Wars fic where an enemy is tormenting Qui-Gon Jinn by making him suffer through Obi-Wan Kenobi's death five times. Each time, Qui-Gon tries and fails to prevent it.
It made me envision a plot that would involve a repeating day/event cycle, possibly enacted by a specific person, possibly a creature, and possibly something unexplainable. Most likely it would be written for Kolchak, and it would be either him or Tony being tormented with the repeated death of the other. I'm leaning more towards Tony being the one tormented, since he would be much less likely to know what to make of such a supernatural horror. It would probably be like the X-Files episode and something would have to happen to break the cycle, but on the other hand, I'm not sure the events would always be the same. In the X-Files episode, it was a bank hold-up. I lean more towards the Star Wars fic version of multiple scenarios. (Seeing the exact same thing play out over and over in the X-Files episode really got rather tedious and monotonous after a while, too! I wanted to fast-forward it before it was over.)
But then again, I really don't want to write this fic, so I wish I could say this post would be the end of it. Unfortunately, I can't say that, because I have no idea.
And I'd really like to use the prompt "Haunting melody; Remember me" for the amnesia fic, but I can't figure out how Haunting Melody would relate to that. I keep feeling the urge to use it for the ghost town fic, but I can't decide how the Remember Me part would fit that. Good grief.
A well-known and probably overly cliche plot device is the repeating day and/or series of events. Mysterious Ways used it. The X-Files used it. I think it started with the movie Groundhog Day, but I could be wrong and it goes back further than that.
The one for Mysterious Ways was especially heartbreaking. It involved a cop whose partner had been killed in the line of duty. Then the day repeats and he hopes he has a chance to save his partner's life. But it still ends with the man's death (albeit under different circumstances).
That made me think of this Star Wars fic where an enemy is tormenting Qui-Gon Jinn by making him suffer through Obi-Wan Kenobi's death five times. Each time, Qui-Gon tries and fails to prevent it.
It made me envision a plot that would involve a repeating day/event cycle, possibly enacted by a specific person, possibly a creature, and possibly something unexplainable. Most likely it would be written for Kolchak, and it would be either him or Tony being tormented with the repeated death of the other. I'm leaning more towards Tony being the one tormented, since he would be much less likely to know what to make of such a supernatural horror. It would probably be like the X-Files episode and something would have to happen to break the cycle, but on the other hand, I'm not sure the events would always be the same. In the X-Files episode, it was a bank hold-up. I lean more towards the Star Wars fic version of multiple scenarios. (Seeing the exact same thing play out over and over in the X-Files episode really got rather tedious and monotonous after a while, too! I wanted to fast-forward it before it was over.)
But then again, I really don't want to write this fic, so I wish I could say this post would be the end of it. Unfortunately, I can't say that, because I have no idea.
And I'd really like to use the prompt "Haunting melody; Remember me" for the amnesia fic, but I can't figure out how Haunting Melody would relate to that. I keep feeling the urge to use it for the ghost town fic, but I can't decide how the Remember Me part would fit that. Good grief.
