Yay! I'm glad you enjoyed. That makes me happy when you're happy. And my 'meh' attitude about it could have very easily been from outside influences. I couldn't believe it was Saturday and I hadn't watched it yet, so I shoe-horned it and this Ramble in. Sometimes I need to just...slow down, y'know? Yeah, you know. :)
Regarding Rowena, if she had mentioned the resurrection magic before then it would not have had such an ‘impact’ (slight sarcasm here) when she did return as we’d have expected it at some time.
You have a very good point and I agree to some extent. But where I go with this is when I'm writing a story. If I get to chapter 8 in a 10 chapter story and I'm like 'Ta-da! Here is this solution to this problem and I never once indicated it was a possibility, but hey, surprise factor FTW!' so many readers would call BS on me. In fact, I actually learned that lesson the hard way when in a story I made it seem like someone had died (an OC, not one of the boys) and when I revealed he actually hadn't, some readers were like, that didn't work for me, Gaelic.
I can see where the element of surprise could definitely be attributed to this resurrection but for me I was like, yeah...that didn't work for me, writers. If they had even dropped a hint previously -- like her making an off-handed snide remark about it being too bad the boys didn't have the ability to hide that kind of magic within their bodies -- I would have been more like, "Oh, so she wasn't kidding with that remark she made last season...she really COULD do this."
Ah, it's not that big of a thing, really. Just something that pulls me out of the immersive magic of the storytelling.
RE: Amara's aging. That's what I was thinking, too. She grew to where she had been previously.
Oh, and guess what? We got an offer on our house! :) If all goes well, we should be relocated by the end of May. Hooray! :)
Regarding Rowena, if she had mentioned the resurrection magic before then it would not have had such an ‘impact’ (slight sarcasm here) when she did return as we’d have expected it at some time.
You have a very good point and I agree to some extent. But where I go with this is when I'm writing a story. If I get to chapter 8 in a 10 chapter story and I'm like 'Ta-da! Here is this solution to this problem and I never once indicated it was a possibility, but hey, surprise factor FTW!' so many readers would call BS on me. In fact, I actually learned that lesson the hard way when in a story I made it seem like someone had died (an OC, not one of the boys) and when I revealed he actually hadn't, some readers were like, that didn't work for me, Gaelic.
I can see where the element of surprise could definitely be attributed to this resurrection but for me I was like, yeah...that didn't work for me, writers. If they had even dropped a hint previously -- like her making an off-handed snide remark about it being too bad the boys didn't have the ability to hide that kind of magic within their bodies -- I would have been more like, "Oh, so she wasn't kidding with that remark she made last season...she really COULD do this."
Ah, it's not that big of a thing, really. Just something that pulls me out of the immersive magic of the storytelling.
RE: Amara's aging. That's what I was thinking, too. She grew to where she had been previously.
Oh, and guess what? We got an offer on our house! :) If all goes well, we should be relocated by the end of May. Hooray! :)
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