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Goodbye, Moon Knight
May. 6th, 2022 04:38 pmWell, it was a good 5 episodes...and then the finale ruined everything.
I've been in a weird mood since Moon Knight episode 6. I don't think I've ever had the experience before of loving a TV show so completely, only to feel like the final episode was not only a disappointment, but it actually ruined my ability to like the entire season and everything about the character.
( ** Moon Knight SPOILERS under the cut ** )
Honestly, I would have been more than happy to have a new fandom to follow, and I had a bunch of half-written fanfics for Moon Knight. Writing fanfic has actually been pretty therapeutic while I've been on sub with Novel #3, since there's no pressure and you're doing it purely for fun and for the love of the characters.
But the finale invalidated everything I loved about the characters and the show, so...that's the end of that, I guess.
I don't know whether I should sit with my feelings for a while or whether I should work on Novel #5 as a response to the show, since the thing that angered me the most was the mental health representation and Novel #5 is a story that deals with mental illness.
I've also been taking a break from Novel #4 while waiting for critique partners to read it, and that's been enormously helpful. I feel more positive about the story now that I've had some time away from it. And even though I struggled a lot to write that story, I did realize something:
At heart, I'm a geek. I love video games, superheroes, and action movies. Hell, I consider the story that influenced me the most to be, not a book, but Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins.
Yet it's not often that I get to write a story that's as geeky as what I love to read. And while, sure, sometimes the stories we read are not the kinds of stories we like to write, Novel #4 has been the first story in a while where I've gotten to flex my storytelling muscles by coming up with scenes full of action and magic.
Maybe this is worth pursuing after all, and spending the time to polish it until it shines.
I've been in a weird mood since Moon Knight episode 6. I don't think I've ever had the experience before of loving a TV show so completely, only to feel like the final episode was not only a disappointment, but it actually ruined my ability to like the entire season and everything about the character.
( ** Moon Knight SPOILERS under the cut ** )
Honestly, I would have been more than happy to have a new fandom to follow, and I had a bunch of half-written fanfics for Moon Knight. Writing fanfic has actually been pretty therapeutic while I've been on sub with Novel #3, since there's no pressure and you're doing it purely for fun and for the love of the characters.
But the finale invalidated everything I loved about the characters and the show, so...that's the end of that, I guess.
I don't know whether I should sit with my feelings for a while or whether I should work on Novel #5 as a response to the show, since the thing that angered me the most was the mental health representation and Novel #5 is a story that deals with mental illness.
I've also been taking a break from Novel #4 while waiting for critique partners to read it, and that's been enormously helpful. I feel more positive about the story now that I've had some time away from it. And even though I struggled a lot to write that story, I did realize something:
At heart, I'm a geek. I love video games, superheroes, and action movies. Hell, I consider the story that influenced me the most to be, not a book, but Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins.
Yet it's not often that I get to write a story that's as geeky as what I love to read. And while, sure, sometimes the stories we read are not the kinds of stories we like to write, Novel #4 has been the first story in a while where I've gotten to flex my storytelling muscles by coming up with scenes full of action and magic.
Maybe this is worth pursuing after all, and spending the time to polish it until it shines.
