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beccaelizabethThe thing with recent brain space being mostly taken up with John Constantine
is that I'm not getting plot bunnies about fighting demons, as per baseline metaphor,
I'm just getting detailed daydreams about getting him to maybe possibly talk to the NHS again, this time maybe with informed care and actual modern treatment options.
It's interesting in the 2014 TV show it comes up that a character who had cancer until someone did a Deal reassured the person they were trying to talk out of the Deal by saying treatment is way better now, but so much plot depends on treatment just not working. Any kind. If it actually helped it wouldn't be a horror show. there'd be other options.
and yet horrors persist even with adequate medical treatments, so there's a corner to pull the story around somehow.
John needs a hug so much, let alone actual help,
and, also,
John makes so many of his own problems.
these are of course not unrelated.
But get him to actually quit the bad stuff and get all polished up and have friends and a team
and you have Legends of Tomorrow, more or less,
and then they undid it all to put him back in the box the way they found him.
for him to be in character he needs all his sharp edges left on
but you want him to be happy instead.
hence daydreams, not plot bunnies.
I should go back to rewatching Legends of Tomorrow.
is that I'm not getting plot bunnies about fighting demons, as per baseline metaphor,
I'm just getting detailed daydreams about getting him to maybe possibly talk to the NHS again, this time maybe with informed care and actual modern treatment options.
It's interesting in the 2014 TV show it comes up that a character who had cancer until someone did a Deal reassured the person they were trying to talk out of the Deal by saying treatment is way better now, but so much plot depends on treatment just not working. Any kind. If it actually helped it wouldn't be a horror show. there'd be other options.
and yet horrors persist even with adequate medical treatments, so there's a corner to pull the story around somehow.
John needs a hug so much, let alone actual help,
and, also,
John makes so many of his own problems.
these are of course not unrelated.
But get him to actually quit the bad stuff and get all polished up and have friends and a team
and you have Legends of Tomorrow, more or less,
and then they undid it all to put him back in the box the way they found him.
for him to be in character he needs all his sharp edges left on
but you want him to be happy instead.
hence daydreams, not plot bunnies.
I should go back to rewatching Legends of Tomorrow.