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stra-tek · 25 days

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Stream of consciousness thoughts on Disco 5x01 and 5x02...

Oh ffs, the Romulan ship is just Discovery sets😂

FRED! I like Fred.

Oh. Fred is dead.

So many cheesy quips.

Nice bike ride... couldn't they just beam ahead to the baddie's ship and skip it? Shame they didn't think of it.

Oh yay, they saved the market from the catastrophe that wouldn't have happened if not for them!

What are they after? We see Trekcore screencaps of "The Chase" and are told about a great treasure... based on what? They're extinct. Gone. Dead. There's no hint they have/had some super technology.

Saru's getting married! Will she give him a radioactive necklace?

They've gotta get from there to the temple? Bet they wish they beamed up some of the bikes from the last episode

Moll reminds me of Ciana from Farscspe

Omg these people are so self congratulatory. Please stop spooging over each other for a minute, it's bordering on toxic positivity.

Book as her number one? Fuck that.

When the eyes opened on the stone head, I thought we had a stone giant on our hands so must admit I'm disappointed

The follow up was fun though

Oh good, Book knows Moll. She's family.

Saru looks like he's been on the tan bed, he's like a big burned cheeto

Angry Captain is now Michael's number one. Cool.

Liked this better than episode 1

#star trek discovery #star trek #michael burnham #saru #tilly #discovery spoilers

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thestupidhelmet · 4 years

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Anonymous said to thestupidhelmet:

For the recap of One difference the answer is probably yes, a meta of character arcs and subtext chapter by chapter would be awesome!

In the almost ten years I’ve written T7S fic, I’ve never been asked to do this before. I started it a few weeks ago, and I managed to get through two chapters. Analyzing my own story requires way more time than I anticipated. 😅

I had to choose between finishing a meta of all fifteen chapters of this story or continuing to write new a one. Not hard to guess which I chose to do. Sorry about that, anon. Sometimes, I wish I could press pause on time and do ALL the things. But, sadly, I can’t.

With that said, I’m posting my meta of the first two chapters. If you’d like to read more analysis of this story, you can check out the comments on it at AO3. I have some very insightful commenters, and I responded back in kind. Those exchanges might be interesting to you. 😊

Meta is after the cut. Enjoy, my anonymous acquaintance!

One Difference: The Answer’s Probably Yes

FFnet / AO3

Summary: In a desperate act, Hyde seeks advice from Jackie, a girl who thinks he's scum. He's not fond of her either, but she makes him a crazy yet strangely-appealing offer.

Rated: M

Chapter 1: Temporary Insanity

Despite the title, this chapter is about breaking free from self-delusion.

Hyde’s motivation at the start of the story is the same as the episode “The Best Christmas Ever” (1x12). He wants Jackie’s advice on buying a present for Donna. Jackie, however, is more aware of her dissatisfaction in her relationship with Kelso than she is at this point on the show.

In the episode, one can interpret her, “Hyde, if you want to make out with me, the answer’s probably no,” remark as evidence she’s at least somewhat physically attracted to Hyde. It’s also evidence of her massive ego. But in my story, she’s on a mission to find out if the problem(s) in her relationship with Kelso stem from her or Kelso. So, combined with her physical attraction toward Hyde, she takes a risk and says instead that the answer’s probably yes.

Hyde, meanwhile, reels from a burst of self-awareness. Jackie’s chastisement that he “doesn’t deserve a girl like Donna for six dollars” breaks through his selfishness and self-delusion. On the show, Hyde is written as a villainous, boundary-ignoring / -invading selfish foil to Eric during much of season 1. In my story, though, he realizes Donna doesn’t share his romantic feelings, and that pulverizes both his heart and his self-conception.

Kelso’s negative attitude toward his relationship with Jackie lessens Hyde’s inhibition toward kissing Jackie. He wants to numb himself from the shock and pain his self-awareness has brought.

Despite his need for escape, Hyde’s realization about himself has an immediate effect on him. He wants to make sure Jackie is a) absolutely sure she wants to kiss him and b) isn’t too young to make that determination. Instead of acting from a totally selfish place, as he’d been doing with Donna, he takes Jackie’s wants and needs into account.

Jackie’s experience during the make-out gives her at least some of the answers she seeks -- that Kelso doesn’t satisfy her physically, in large part because of Kelso’s selfishness -- but she’s not quite ready to embrace the truth fully.

Jackie and Hyde don’t know each other too well at this point in the show. The same goes for the story. Their communication sucks. In the universe of this story, Jackie admired his dancing skills in “That Disco Episode” (1x07), and she clumsily tries to explain that to him. He eventually untangles the misunderstanding between them, and this conversation is foreshadowing for chapter twelve, where they go to Prom together.

Hyde also begins to challenge Jackie’s snobbishness a little. It doesn’t hit the mark, but it plants a seed into her subconscious. The story begins with Jackie demonstrating her classism and Hyde’s internal reaction to it. This is a thread that weaves through Jackie’s character development throughout the story and her parents’ behavior.

I love foreshadowing.

Eric and Donna catch Jackie and Hyde in the act, same as they do in “I Can’t Quit You, Baby” (5x02). I blended and rearranged elements from Jackie and Hyde’s season-5 relationship into this season-1 version of their romance. Partly as Easter eggs for the reader and partly to reflect that Jackie and Hyde’s relationship, regardless of when it happens in during the show’s timeline, creates similar ripples in the world around them -- and to show that Jackie and Hyde, when written in-character, will inevitably make certain choices.

Chapter 2: The Best Gift of All

This chapter’s main purpose is to show the aftermath of Jackie and Hyde’s realizations. Hyde is no longer in denial about Donna’s feelings for him or his treatment of her. Jackie, on the other hand, goes right back into denial about her relationship with Kelso.

Her physical attraction to Hyde hasn’t faded, though. If anything, it’s grown stronger after their make-out. But she feels guilty for cheating on Kelso, and she’s gotten drunk unintentionally. She does her best to ignore her attraction toward Hyde and reaffirms her faithfulness to Kelso.

This chapter foreshadows Edna’s behavior toward Hyde in subsequent chapters and her eventual abandonment of Hyde. His homelife is an important element of this story, and we get an important glimpse of it here. She’s gone on one of her days’-long jaunts with her current boyfriend. Hyde is left to take care of himself, not an unusual situation.

Having been abandoned by both parents, his emotional wounding blinded him to other people’s feelings and wishes. His own feelings and wishes were paramount above all others, a touch of narcissism. Fortunately, Jackie’s blunt assessment in chapter one destroyed that narcissism, and he’s a changed man.

At the Christmas party, Hyde makes clear to Donna he knows how selfish he acted toward her and apologizes for it. His friendships with Donna and Eric have been the most stabilizing forces in his life, and losing them would be devastating to him. Fortunately, Donna forgives him and trusts him, and Eric ... well, he’s a little less trusting, but their friendship is safe.

When I wrote the end of this chapter, I thought the story could satisfyingly end here. The last paragraph puts a neat, narrative bow on what could’ve been a two-shot. But I outlined a longer story, and I had no intention of not writing it.

#That 70s Show #That '70s Show #Jackie x Hyde #Jackie Burkhart #Steven Hyde #My Meta #My Essay #Meta #Essay #Fanfic #Ask #Anon

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