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Post by manche on Apr 16, 2019 13:15:35 GMT -5
I know that it was mentioned in this topic before, but when I read a story today, there was mentioned again Firouz interrupting the romantic moments between Maeve/Sinbad and it is not funny that Firouz is always the crewman who does this in different stories? I simply can not imagine Rongar or Doubar in such a position, but for Firouz it works perfectly.
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Post by Kriss on Apr 17, 2019 10:58:41 GMT -5
I know that it was mentioned in this topic before, but when I read a story today, there was mentioned again Firouz interrupting the romantic moments between Maeve/Sinbad and it is not funny that Firouz is always the crewman who does this in different stories? I simply can not imagine Rongar or Doubar in such a position, but for Firouz it works perfectly. Indeed, it is hard to imagine any one else than Firouz in such situation. And it is very often used in different fanfics as well. But it is cute its own way  |
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Post by manche on Apr 17, 2019 13:25:03 GMT -5
For me, it was very funny watch it as well. It fitted to his character from S1 as he seemed to be a little abstracted during the season a few times. For example there were several times when he almost forgot his sword on the ground after fights, he experienced accidents and falls during the construction of his inventions. But I think that these traits of his dissapeared in S2.
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Post by tzigone on Jan 7, 2024 13:47:12 GMT -5
I really didn't like Turok back. I like Rumina as the big bad of the show - women don't usually get to be that, especially young (looking) women for male heroes (despite that Maeve fixates on Rumina while Sindbad decidedly doesn't, Rumina fixates on Sinbad, so she certainly sees him, rather than Maeve as the important one). And I feel like Turok back would have had (if it hadn't basically turned into a different show) the effect of downgrading her position by having the more powerful, older (and now wiser after being killed once) sorcerer in play. Frankly bringing the actual devil into a deal with her didn't help in that respect, either. Kudos to those who mentioned he was chained up last we saw - that's a missing scene waiting to be written.
While I don't know, I expect if the show had gone on in the way planned, Maeve and Sinbad would have actually made significant forward progress just now. TV loves UST, but thinks it's all over once the couple gets together - I think that's only issue if either the writers don't know how to write a couple in an interesting way or if that's all a show had going for it. And AoS did have more than that, with Dermott to free from a curse and big rainbow-bracelet mystery to solve. Fanfic gives far more opportunity to explore that from writers who think resolved sexual tension and long-term-relationships can be just as interesting.
The thing with removing Dermott's curse is that you likely remove Rumina as a villain. Of course, she was removed anyway, but that was a whole different thing. She was the primary villain in the first season. But I could see her displaced by Scratch or Turok, as stated above, though I'm not fond of it. Lot of (especially non-American) shows I've seen wrap up their main villain in season 1, then introduce a new one in season 2. Of course, in fanfic, you don't have to worry about "keeping the story going" so heroes can defeat all their enemies. For angstier conclusions, I suppose, one could kill off Dermott and keep Rumina around, but that's not tonally consistent with season 1, IMO.
One thing that's interesting is that, even now, Maeve doesn't share the truth of Dermott's nature with Sinbad. She's just not ready to open up with that. I have this sort of headcanon where she told her family (yes, they are alive) what happened, but they all think she went mad from grief over Dermott's death. They love her. They loved Dermott. But they do not believe her, and she realizes she has to save him on her own. So she's understandably hesitant to tell others. Certainly at this point, Sinbad would believe her, though. I do wonder what he actually thinks the story is. I think he realizes Dermott was a human cursed into being a hawk. He knows Dermott was close to Maeve and he can figure out it wasn't a romantic relationship. It's not a huge leap to a brother, but I'm not at all sure he's thought about it, because I'm not sure he cares about figuring out the puzzle. He doesn't need to know. Helping Maeve is the priority and a secondary hope may be that she could trust him enough to share it.
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