Advent: door 21
Taken from today's makinglight, written by Abi Sutherland.
Nature is the original storyteller.
She can do it all, from the comedy of newborn rabbits to the tragedy of myxomatosis. She uses symmetry and repetition in due measure. Winter snow foreshadows the cherry blossoms of spring, and Indian summer flashes back to true summer. Her pace is impeccable: measured and stately, but punctuated with the most incredible surprises. She recasts the same stories in different contexts and makes them new again.
And story arc? She invented the idea, had it perfected it while we weren’t sure each daily episode was part of the same narrative.
We’ve taken what she gave us and built on it, of course. We adapt her plots, adding characters that suit us and dialog that sounds right. But nature the ultimate source of our storytelling, just as the sun is the source of all our food. And whatever else we’re reading and watching at present, this is a narrative that everyone around us shares.
Now, I’ve been following the Northern Hemisphere series for a number years now, and we’ve reached a key turning point in the current subplot. It’s the dark time, when everything seems hopeless. Lydia has fled with Wickham just as Lizzie falls for Darcy; Han is frozen in carbonite; Théoden and Éowyn lie side by side on Pelennor Fields. We’re ready for the turning to the light.
So as the season finale draws near, what do you think of the story so far? What do you have planned for the last episode, when we celebrate our hope for the coming of the light? What are you looking forward in the next season?*
(Southern Hemisphere readers, who are at a different point in their story arc, feel free to update us as well.)
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* If anyone can think of a spoiler surprising enough to ROT-13, I will be seriously impressed.