#since theyre the two people who like. like him? mostly? petra at least goes out of her way to talk to him | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

isaacathom · 1 year ago

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instead of, yknow, writing stories, i think about fun structural quirks. like how, to reflect gideon's position at the time of the party split, none of the preceding episodes/stories can focus on him. he's in pretty much all of them, and hes obviously an important part of the ship's functioning as their primary/sole mechanic, but he never gets spotlighted. even when the ships struggling, the focus of the narrative would be more on the pilot and the captain working around him. he's not focused on.

and so when he makes the case to Xue, and by extension the audience, that he has not been given the proper respect, that is actually reflected in the narrative.

#story blogging #*parks and rec meme* its about the Structure #thats also why the vineyard thing happens three eps in. its a structural thing. get their ass #the difficult bit would be ensuring the balance between ignoring him and 'ignoring him' yknow #and i think part of that will be worked with by how he interacts with Xue and Petra #since theyre the two people who like. like him? mostly? petra at least goes out of her way to talk to him #and so you do get scenes of him. he gets some visibility. but only on a scene by scene basis #eg you might get an episode about petra and he'll have a good scene with her and then not much else #hes structural. so its noticable when hes not there. but hes always there ;)

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