I... have a lot of confusing feelings about Season 5. I think it would have been a lot more enjoyable if I hadn't seen Season 4, because they tried to pretend the character movements of Season 4 had never happened and it made for some annoyingly dissonant moments, where on the one hand I didn't want those things in Season 4 to have happened, but they did happen, and Season 5's refusal to engage with their consequences frustrated me.
In general, I think Season 5 is the greatest AU fanfic ever, and I love the visuals and a lot of the storytelling. But there are frustrating parts. And let me be clear- the narrative I sketch out in this vid is not at all counterfactual, but it is... somewhat narratively counterfactual? Etta ought to be the central character in Season 5, but instead she fades into the background and they waste time telling stories about Peter that aren't actually very important.
I think of this vid as being a sort of sequel to A New Day in New York Town because it's an acoustic ballad that I'm using to tell a character story and also to comment on the different versions of New York Fringe is talking about. Season 5 New York is the one I left out of that first vid, because it's a different kind of New York that didn't fit into the narrative of that vid, but I wanted to finish the story of Fringe New Yorks, and so I'm glad you liked how I fit that urban context into Etta's story.
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Date: 2015-01-19 05:04 am (UTC)In general, I think Season 5 is the greatest AU fanfic ever, and I love the visuals and a lot of the storytelling. But there are frustrating parts. And let me be clear- the narrative I sketch out in this vid is not at all counterfactual, but it is... somewhat narratively counterfactual? Etta ought to be the central character in Season 5, but instead she fades into the background and they waste time telling stories about Peter that aren't actually very important.
I think of this vid as being a sort of sequel to A New Day in New York Town because it's an acoustic ballad that I'm using to tell a character story and also to comment on the different versions of New York Fringe is talking about. Season 5 New York is the one I left out of that first vid, because it's a different kind of New York that didn't fit into the narrative of that vid, but I wanted to finish the story of Fringe New Yorks, and so I'm glad you liked how I fit that urban context into Etta's story.