You're very kind to be reading for that purpose. Thank you. I'm sorry that I've been intimidating for you on the fanwork front. FK has always had its share of opinionated, picky, precise people, so when there were more of us around, I didn't stand out at all. :-)
As deeply as I enjoy the whole series, I love first season far beyond the other two seasons, which I consider sad subsidences from the truly amazing heights of first season. I love Nick's quest for salvation (in the metaphor of the quest for humanity), for freedom from sin (in the metaphor of freedom from Lacroix and vampirism), for communion with others (as he learns to be in the human world). I love characters learning from mistakes and trying again. I love grappling with survival and loss. I love flashbacks making stories bigger from the inside. And I love history, mystery, and fantasy, apart and together — genre-busting.
"The girl or the cup"-style scenarios, in which Nick must choose between achieving his dearest goal and being a good person, and, with pain and as a sacrifice, he chooses to be a good person, are always big hits with me. So are bereavement stories, where a character must press on, and make sense of pressing on, after a loss. And most anything that resembles a piece of an episode that never was, anything recognizable as what would surely have been filmed, if only that story had been filmed.
Because of my own interpretation of the story's metaphorical/thematic level, I personally never side with vampirism. Though I do enjoy the vampire characters when they're presented as metaphorical humans, a la Emily Weiss's characterization of fantasy creatures as just like us, but more intense and concentrated for storytelling resonance.
With FKdom so small now, every one of us has unique interpretations preferences. :-) I sometimes wonder what it must be like in a large fandom with widely shared interpretational agreements...
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You're very kind to be reading for that purpose. Thank you. I'm sorry that I've been intimidating for you on the fanwork front. FK has always had its share of opinionated, picky, precise people, so when there were more of us around, I didn't stand out at all. :-)
As deeply as I enjoy the whole series, I love first season far beyond the other two seasons, which I consider sad subsidences from the truly amazing heights of first season. I love Nick's quest for salvation (in the metaphor of the quest for humanity), for freedom from sin (in the metaphor of freedom from Lacroix and vampirism), for communion with others (as he learns to be in the human world). I love characters learning from mistakes and trying again. I love grappling with survival and loss. I love flashbacks making stories bigger from the inside. And I love history, mystery, and fantasy, apart and together — genre-busting.
"The girl or the cup"-style scenarios, in which Nick must choose between achieving his dearest goal and being a good person, and, with pain and as a sacrifice, he chooses to be a good person, are always big hits with me. So are bereavement stories, where a character must press on, and make sense of pressing on, after a loss. And most anything that resembles a piece of an episode that never was, anything recognizable as what would surely have been filmed, if only that story had been filmed.
Because of my own interpretation of the story's metaphorical/thematic level, I personally never side with vampirism. Though I do enjoy the vampire characters when they're presented as metaphorical humans, a la Emily Weiss's characterization of fantasy creatures as just like us, but more intense and concentrated for storytelling resonance.
With FKdom so small now, every one of us has unique interpretations preferences. :-) I sometimes wonder what it must be like in a large fandom with widely shared interpretational agreements...