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Date Posted: 22:39:50 02/22/03 Sat
Author: Wyvern
Subject: S7 could actually present some problems, but you're probably right... even if only for our own reference.
In reply to: Faithsguy 's message, "Sorry I'm posting a lot today but...." on 20:12:01 02/22/03 Sat

I mean, it doesn't really matter, as Mark says, after all, how may times have they mentioned Adam or Glory since they were disposed of? But it would probably help us, and especially the people writing the first couple of episodes, to know where things stood for the Scoobies prior to the events of "S8"... I'm assuming we're allowing for the usual 3 month intervening period, and it's true that not all seasons have ended in such a way as to have a huge impact on the opening of the next season, but on the other hand, imagine if we had been planning to do this after S2 (Eek! The slayer buggered off and left town! Where's she gone? Is she coming back!?) or S5 (Eek! The slayer's dead! How do we get her back?) or S6 (Eek! The slayer's still here but her best mate's gone a bit wonky and her vampire sort-of nemesis/ex-boyfriend has gone off to Africa and got a soul!).

As you say, your way deals with it quickly and lets us into the new season. I think my only real concern is that we're going to be finishing up roughly when S7 wraps, depending when we start(if I've worked it out about right... it's about 13 weeks to the end of the season, if everything goes to plan it'll take us 11 weeks to go through ours) which means that potentially things could happen throughout S7 that should really have an impact on S8 (eg. characters moving on, something happening that affects the whole slayer thing, something happening on the hellmouth, the storyline with the FE not going even remotely as we expect, AtS beating us to the "Horsemen" thing - don't think they will, but it's a possible, their latest Apocalypse is clearly based on the Revelations model).

So maybe the question shouldn't so much be, how do we end S7, as do we allow our storyline for S8 to alter if the BtVS canon makes parts of it either redundant or inconsistant, or do we ignore it and consider our storyline to be completely AU?

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[> [> I totally see what you're saying -- Mark, 23:00:19 02/22/03 Sat

In fact, I was thinking that exact same thing today, that we're going to finish pretty close to the actual finish of Season 7 in the USA. So how do we handle it? Well, let's say a writer is writing a Kennedy-centric episode due on Thursday, but Tuesday comes, and its a big episode and Kennedy dies! It doesn't seem fair to the writer to now totally change everything they had to write because of something in season 7.

I think our only choice is to just ignore pretty much anything new that happens in season 7. It could be fun to reference things that have already happened, like the whole "Is Giles the FE?" storyline or maybe someone making a comment about how nice it is to have the house to themselves without twenty teens running around, or when Spike was crazy in the beginning of the season.

But for the real story parts, and I'm sure there will be huge things to come in the last five episodes of s7, I think our only choice is to just ignore it and continue writing without changing much. Because lol I have a feeling it would get VERY hard to not only write season 8, but writer season 8 and accomodate everything that happened in seaosn 7 at the same time.

What do you all think? Yes? No?

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[> [> [> I guess we're already taking a slightly different route than a "real" S8 would... -- Wyvern, 23:44:50 02/22/03 Sat

Because we know Emma Caulfield's stated pretty catagorically that she is not going to do S8 if it happens, and it's looking pretty odds-on that SMG would most likely be recurring rather than regular. ASH has also made some rumblings towards this being his last season of BtVS. But, we're using Anya, Buffy and Giles so we're already AU to an extent. I think the answer is to "go with the flow". Up to a point, we can ignore what happens in S7, and if something really major happens and you either can't incorporate it into your story or there simply isn't time (as you say, if you're writing a Kennedy-centric story for a Thursday but Kennedy dies in the episode that airs on Tuesday, for example) then we'll just have to live with it. Thing is, at the end of the day, this is supposed to be something we're doing for fun, so it shouldn't become a chore to slavishly follow what's happening on screen or to become something we don't want to do for fear of getting it "wrong".

I guess we have the option of keeping an eye on spoilers for major events, but I know that a few of us are spoiler free and want to stay that way. And if all else fails, there are a few tried and tested (ie., cliched to death, lol)ways of getting around it, such as dreams, resets and flashbacks...

So I suppose my choice would be to let the story unfold as we want it to by and large, but be open to the possiblity of changing direction if the writer first affected by it feels able to do so if something really big happens. Does that sound like a reasonable compromise?

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