When I was writing this post, I kept remembering the second-season scene in which Schanke's car breaks down, but I could not connect the scene in my head with an episode. That's another kind of event that can certainly feel like a disaster in the moment.
And I'm reminded now that I should perhaps re-read Susan G.'s "Assignment Knight"("Knight in Hell)," while thinking about disaster. That is a cascade of incidents that become the worst possible disaster in FK. She wrote it as a "party favor" for a convention -- there were 2 versions of the story, one happy and sweet, one horrific and tragic; people at the convention got one or the other, not knowing there were two -- but I didn't know that the first time I encountered it, and I took it seriously as a tragedy...
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When I was writing this post, I kept remembering the second-season scene in which Schanke's car breaks down, but I could not connect the scene in my head with an episode. That's another kind of event that can certainly feel like a disaster in the moment.
And I'm reminded now that I should perhaps re-read Susan G.'s "Assignment Knight"("Knight in Hell)," while thinking about disaster. That is a cascade of incidents that become the worst possible disaster in FK. She wrote it as a "party favor" for a convention -- there were 2 versions of the story, one happy and sweet, one horrific and tragic; people at the convention got one or the other, not knowing there were two -- but I didn't know that the first time I encountered it, and I took it seriously as a tragedy...