Slow weekend in fic land...
I'd planned on working on my Bond crossover... and it didn't happen. I puttered around on the B/W Season 1 episode rewrite... but I'm not getting anywhere fast with that. Once I finish that one... I don't think I'll attempt any other episode rewrites... it takes more planning than I expected it would if I don't want to just rewrite the episode.
If I change something then a lot of other things change... I've kept a few key points but pretty much the rest of the episode/season has to be different...
Some things I'm thinking about...
- I'm keeping the season villain (The Master) - but I'm not sure how to work him into the rewritten episodes yet.
- If Willow is gay 4 seasons early... then the whole Bronze scene where she wanders off with that vampire and Buffy and Xander follow to the crypt... doesn't work. But I've kept A scene at the Bronze as the point where Willow and Xander find out about real vampires and Buffy rescues them.
- And somehow we need an event that starts Xander on his "I Hate Vampires" path - but does Jesse have to die or become a vampire for that to happen?
- And then there's Giles - in canon it takes him much too long to outgrow that 'Watcher knows best' brainwashing... (and even then he still has that kind of attitude - but he doesn't revert to it until Season 7) - so let's fix that. Let's have a more clueful Giles here.
- And the warning about the "Harvest" that Angel passes along... let's do something different... but how do Buffy and Co. find out about it in time to stop them? Who does Angel tell instead? A note slipped under a door?
- Let's throw Dawn into the mix... it makes the other changes easier to accomplish.
- No, Joyce isn't going to be clued in about the vampires and slayers yet... I know it's been done that way before... but not in my story. She wouldn't be happy when she finds out...
- Does Angel become Angelus the following year? And how does that happen if we've hooked Buffy up with Willow by then (Or will we ? Just because Willow knows she is gay doesn't mean they'll get together that soon (if ever). ) I've seen the Judge used to separate Angel from his soul - so that's been done. Not sure if there is an original way to do it... or not do it at all... not that it matters since I won't be rewriting anything past Season 1.
So many things need to be different... for the story to really work...
And I just rewatched the two episodes this is centered around... and the Buffy and Willow I'm writing just seem too mature compared to how they are portrayed in those episodes...
11:10:43 PM 
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