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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 7, 2018 21:59:06 GMT
I've been designing the afterlife system for TUOK, and I thought that might be a fun writing discussion. What types of afterlife systems do you like creating and reading about? Do you prefer to leave what happens next vague and mysterious? Or do you like to explore and see what's going on out there? Have you ever written an atheistic universe where nothing happens after death? How do you feel about resurrection?
I don't mind resurrections but they shouldn't be easy and consequence free. If someone wants to come back they either have to work really hard and earn that privilege or someone else has to sacrifice something of equal value to bring them back. And the experience needs to have changed them and marked them. You can't die and come back and be exactly the same as you were before. And it should be extremely rare. If every favorite character comes back therefore making death have zero consequences at all it feels cheap and the tension evaporates.
I thought Babylon 5 handled it well. I liked what Buffy did with it, too. Farscape was frelling ridiculous, but I was okay with it because I loved the characters so much and well, it was Farscape!
What are your thoughts?
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Post by prolificwriter on Oct 7, 2018 22:43:26 GMT
I like the one they had in Torchwood. Total darkness and then something slithering around trying to get you.
I’ve left it pretty vague in the books where it’s mentioned.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 7, 2018 23:55:53 GMT
I like the one they had in Torchwood. Total darkness and then something slithering around trying to get you. I’ve left it pretty vague in the books where it’s mentioned. One good thing about only having dark, terrifying afterlives is that it really raises the stakes and makes avoiding death really important, and it makes death much more tragic. Inatoooooooooooooooo |
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Post by prolificwriter on Oct 8, 2018 0:31:38 GMT
It does make the stakes higher. Ianto? I never really cared for him. My favorite was Toshiko so I was definitely sad when she died.  |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 8, 2018 2:06:02 GMT
The only two characters I really liked were Jack and Ianto. Toshiko's fate was definitely sad, too. But her pining away for Owen made me dislike her. She deserved someone who would actually love her back, and a much happier ending. I still have no idea why they decided killing off everyone but Jack, Gwen, and her poor deluded hubby was a good idea. I still haven't been able to watch the final season cos I just don't care anymore.
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Post by prolificwriter on Oct 8, 2018 5:08:26 GMT
The only two characters I really liked were Jack and Ianto. Toshiko's fate was definitely sad, too. But her pining away for Owen made me dislike her. She deserved someone who would actually love her back, and a much happier ending. I still have no idea why they decided killing off everyone but Jack, Gwen, and her poor deluded hubby was a good idea. I still haven't been able to watch the final season cos I just don't care anymore. Jack and Toshiko were my favorites. I didn’t like that she was pining for Owen (another character I didn’t care for) either but overall I loved her. I agree with you about all the unnecessary character deaths. I’ve noticed that British shows have a revolving door thing going on with people leaving left and right. Maybe their actor contracts are looser than here in the US? As for the last season? I think it’s worth a watch. Jack is still there!  I actually liked it better than season 3, which seemed overpraised to me. The first two seasons are still my favorites. I definitely understand where you’re coming from, though. I haven’t seen the last season of Spartacus because all my favorite characters were gone by then! |
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I actually liked it better than season 3, which seemed overpraised to me. The first two seasons are still my favorites. I definitely understand where you’re coming from, though. I haven’t seen the last season of Spartacus because all my favorite characters were gone by then!
