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hells_half_acreAs some of you know, I'm writing a Merlin/Supernatural crossover at the moment. It's going to be roughly 20-24k words... maybe longer. It takes place in the Merlin universe.
Now, my question to you is: Should I change Merlin canon???
I only ask, because I started writing this fic before Merlin ended. And...well... I hated the end of Merlin. I thought it was bad writing (not so much the dialogue and the characters, but rather the plot of the final season.) So, on the one hand, I could change all that... or at least, leave it ambiguous enough that the reader could imagine that everything changed. On the other hand, I usually stick with canon in these crossovers and that's what orders them and keeps them believable and satisfying (in my opinion.) But if the canon isn't satisfying....then, maybe I should change it?
It'd mean rewriting a little of what I've done already, but not actually that much when it comes right down to it. The major changes would be to the bit that I haven't written yet anyway.
(I also still have to decide where in Supernatural's timeline Sam and Dean are going to be.)
Anyway, any thoughts would be appreciated.
PS: I know I've been writing a lot slower these days than I used to in the past... but in the past I was under- and unemployed, and these days I'm actually working full time. So, I'm finding it a bit more difficult to find time to write. I know I just have to make a better routine of it though, so I'm working on that. I haven't been working on the poor novel at all, even though I think I have a good strategy for fixing at least some of the problems. What I should really do is stop reading other peoples fanfiction. I spend far too much time doing that, I suppose. I'll shut-up now.
Now, my question to you is: Should I change Merlin canon???
I only ask, because I started writing this fic before Merlin ended. And...well... I hated the end of Merlin. I thought it was bad writing (not so much the dialogue and the characters, but rather the plot of the final season.) So, on the one hand, I could change all that... or at least, leave it ambiguous enough that the reader could imagine that everything changed. On the other hand, I usually stick with canon in these crossovers and that's what orders them and keeps them believable and satisfying (in my opinion.) But if the canon isn't satisfying....then, maybe I should change it?
It'd mean rewriting a little of what I've done already, but not actually that much when it comes right down to it. The major changes would be to the bit that I haven't written yet anyway.
(I also still have to decide where in Supernatural's timeline Sam and Dean are going to be.)
Anyway, any thoughts would be appreciated.
PS: I know I've been writing a lot slower these days than I used to in the past... but in the past I was under- and unemployed, and these days I'm actually working full time. So, I'm finding it a bit more difficult to find time to write. I know I just have to make a better routine of it though, so I'm working on that. I haven't been working on the poor novel at all, even though I think I have a good strategy for fixing at least some of the problems. What I should really do is stop reading other peoples fanfiction. I spend far too much time doing that, I suppose. I'll shut-up now.
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Date: 2013-02-10 08:34 am (UTC)So, yeah, they couldn't even commit to their own freakin' story. Ugh, show. And the thing is there was AMPLE opportunity to at least follow through with a conclusion to their premise. "Merlin has to protect Arthur so that he can unite and restore magic to Albion." So, end of S4, well on his way to uniting Albion, has his wife, his knights... ALL S5 had to do was have a magic reveal and have Arthur lift the ban on magic, and bammo, Albion, Magic, Merlin is accepted for who he is, and presto - satisfying ending. It WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN HARD.
Ugh... anyway, at this point I'm just rambling. But Merlin S5 made me so damn mad. There was no reason to go all the way to Camlann. They were supposed to be telling a story about how Arthur BECAME great, not how Arthur died (somehow without ever becoming great, because they fuckin' forgot to tell that story.)
So mad.