The truth....

[ladybug_archive]

I got some more inspiration for chapter 8 of the Turtles fic by reading back over my entries and realizing I needed to get back to Baxter's struggle with his humanity and the ghost of the fly continuing to torture him in his mind. Chapter 9 will probably still start the climax, but I don't want to get so caught up in that part of the story that I forget the other part. They are equally important. The deal with Barney and Shredder advances the action, while the other part advances Baxter's character development. And then of course, both things converge in the climax as Baxter tries to put what he's discovering about himself into practice.

I haven't actually wanted to come out and admit it, partially because I'm not sure how to without it sounding kind of bad, but I think the main reason I'm so intrigued by the idea of Barney working for Shredder is because part of me kind of likes seeing the "bad" side of the Baxter character in that scenario, especially when Baxter himself was vastly underused in it. Yet the other part of me wants to see Baxter being able to turn his life around, since he was the only one of the Baxters who actually wanted to be honest. The 1987 series enabled the possibility of, well, splitting the original character into two characters with the twin brother bit. Baxter himself can hence explore trying to reclaim his honesty, while Barney wanders down a villainous path and could be closer to the evil genius persona of the original Mirage and the later TV series' Baxters (albeit maybe not quite as treacherous as they were). In other words, the 1987 series is the only one with the possibility of really having it both ways at once and making it make sense.

The past night I saw that Wal-Mart only has one of the smaller Slimers left. Apparently he's selling much better than the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man plushies. It was extremely difficult not to buy him, especially after coming from that adorable episode Station Identification, with Slimer so completely determined to save Peter and not seeming to hold any grudge for Peter treating him quite mean in that venture. But I have that problem of wanting to use that Build-a-Bear coupon too, and at this moment I can't get both. If I knew Wal-Mart would restock, and/or that they would keep having the Ghostbusters stuff for a while, I'd rather wait and maybe see about that on my birthday. But since I don't know, and since I had that weird experience with the DVDs being taken away just when I would have bought one at Wal-Mart, I'm rather paranoid about not letting that happen again. I can't seem to stop wanting a Slimer plush, especially as he just gets more and more adorable as I'm watching the show. And then I'm thinking that for only $5 more, the bigger Slimer (with original movie sounds!) is totally the best deal. Both of them are at horrible prices on Amazon, so if Wal-Mart gets them gone, I don't know that I'll have much luck getting one. I'm guessing Toys R Us and Target wouldn't have very good prices, if they carry the merchandise at all. They're usually far more expensive than Wal-Mart.

The breakdown between Wal-Mart and Amazon:

Smaller Slimer: $10 at Wal-Mart; $20 on Amazon (!!!!!)
Bigger, Talking Slimer: $15 at Wal-Mart; $25 on Amazon

At this particular moment, I have to admit that I think I want a Slimer plush more than to use the coupon. But it all hinges on how long the plushies will be around, sigh. And I hate to waste the coupon....

Comments

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I hope the writing has been coming together!

Interesting about wanting to do more with Baxter's "bad" side and being able to explore that through Barney!

And oy vey, Amazon. Hmm. A dilemma, though, about deciding what to do. When does the coupon expire? If it's soon, then I'd probably go ahead and use that. Oh! Maybe you could put Slimer on layaway? *did that once with a YGO VHS that I wanted to reserve but didn't have the money to get at the time*

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

It has been, kind of! Chapter 8 isn't done yet, though; I've flipped back to working on Chapter 6 to try to get it ready. It just felt too short and I finally came up with another scene to insert in the middle.

Indeed, it's kind of an odd feeling. But it's kind of nice that the series has the door open to be able to do that without having Baxter go bad again. Heh.

Yeah, the coupon expires on the 5th of September. We may be going out on Thursday and I'll have the chance to use it/see if I want to use it. Interesting thought about Layaway! Problem with that is that you usually have to put some of the money down at the time, though, isn't it? Unless Wal-Mart's Layaway program is different.... And coming to think of it, I'm not sure they even do Layaway year-round, but only near Christmas....

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. I can never write out of order; it feels to weird for me, but kudos to you if you can pull it off!

*nodnod*

Good luck with the coupon! And yeah, you do have to put down some money, but it's a fraction of it, though. And hmm, when I put the VHS on layaway, it was year-round. ...Of course, this was over a decade ago (oy vey).

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm writing in order, but since I wrote the equivalent of about four chapters before I realized it was not going to be a long oneshot, I ended up writing way ahead of what I'm posting. So I re-read each chapter over and over before I get it up and I usually end up adding something to each one before it goes up.

Thanks! And yeah, it's good that it's only a fraction of the cost. I'll have to look into whether Wal-Mart still does it year-round.