Let me talk to you about all my fiction feelings!

[muneca_brava]

I. Meme from penny_lane_42

Give me a text (book, TV show, movie, etc.) and I will tell you what I would have done differently if I had written it. Not little details, necessarily, but big plot or theme or characterization choices.

Please leave stuff for me to answer because I am having a not-fun day of anxiety and would like to think of something that will not lead to panic attacks. Thank you. :)

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[mizzy2k.livejournal.com]

Merlin. \o/

[muneca-brava.livejournal.com]

Haha, oh where to start! (full disclosure: I stopped watching somewhere in S3 and only know the rest of it from Tumblr and my flist)

Mainly, I would allow the characters and relationships to evolve, and have the characters be more consistent. I would mostly keep S1 the way it is (with less crack), but I would have let Arthur find out about Merlin's magic at the end of S1 or somewhere in S2. Then the next season would be about Arthur's struggle to accept that people with magic can be good and that he could be a better king than his father.

I would have drastically changed Morgana's turn to 'evil'; I would have had Merlin confide in her about his magic, and they could have fallen out because they have different views of how to get acceptance but at the same time they'd still have a connection with eachother they can't have with anyone else.
She would still try to kill Uther, but she would also still care very much about Arthur and, mainly, about Gwen. I'd have loved to see Morgana struggle with her compassion and innate goodness versus the things she feels she has to do to make Camelot a better place and get her revenge.

On a more personal level, I would have Gwen/Arthur be nothing more than friends and let Gwen/Lancelot be the real love story. But that's just my shippy feelings coming through ;)