merlin vid rec

obsessive24's Merlin vid Red. Go. Watch it. Cry. How destiny is just epic tragedy in the making, and just -- wow. Go forth! Watch! Flail!

Although the song also translates really well to my conception of Golden Age Narnia: You burn too bright / You live too fast / This can't go on too long / You're a tragedy starting to happen.

OH PEVENSIES.

*cough* Yes. Everything ends with Narnia for me, apparently.

huh. didn't see that coming.

You know, I think the incredibly concussed Eustace POV is going to work out nicely for Dust 9. (No, really, he's somewhere high up there on incredibly concussed. Nausua, dizziness, blurred double vision, the works.) I don't have to concentrate on Peter having to pretend he knows what's going on and I don't have to concentrate on Tirian's awkwardness; I can settle with Eustace whining and occasionally being surprisingly competent. (Threat that still stands: anyone makes me learn cryptography, I'll break their neck. Lucy can fix it later. I don't care if it's Eustace, Edmund, or Susan: broken necks. Of course, if it's Susan, Lucy might not feel quite so inclined to fix it.) And I can set up a really minor Peter-in-Cair-Paravel plot without having to have Peter get himself into trouble; Eustace can do it for him.

Also, the best way to write Eustace POV, at least for me at the moment? (Once again, I have, uh, no access to the books, since I left them in New Orleans. Smart, babe.) Channeling Rodney McKay from Stargate Atlantis. Also, his POV on the Pevensies and Tirian is really damn interesting. Fun.

The only thing that's really depressing me is that I had to drop the opening scene of the Peter POV. Because who doesn't want Peter waking up in bed with a prostitute after being roofied? That scene is so getting posted at some point that is not now.

In other news: The latest in a long list of reasons why fandom is glad I don't vid. Mamma Mia, Narnia, the Pevensies! Come on, don't think I can't hear your screams of horror across the Internet. I mean, I think you'd have to wait for VotDT and LB to come out to get the full effect, but still. (Actually, I think it fits Dust better than it fits LB, for the really traumatizing effect.)

...no, I will not share my crack.