However, given that that decision was setting up the arc in S3, it was really a plot decision as much as a characterization. That's a good point--I hadn't thought of that. I loved that the show did go there, but I'm with you. It's much more something I'd expect in fic. I generally expect restraint when it comes to angst in canon, but I'm not at all unhappy that this show isn't holding back at all. It's my little emo angsty hurt/comfort show and I love it so. Oh, yes, and there are ghost stories too.
I also find stories where the characters must muddle through alone both more poignant and more interesting. Yes, yes. I think beating your breast and crying to the gods is the most obvious and first choice of any writer to show grief, but you dig a little deeper and it stops being a monolithic thing--GRIEF--and becomes all the individual pains that make it unique to one person. And that's when you start to feel it instead of just recognizing it.
Re: Balance of Days
That's a good point--I hadn't thought of that. I loved that the show did go there, but I'm with you. It's much more something I'd expect in fic. I generally expect restraint when it comes to angst in canon, but I'm not at all unhappy that this show isn't holding back at all. It's my little emo angsty hurt/comfort show and I love it so. Oh, yes, and there are ghost stories too.
I also find stories where the characters must muddle through alone both more poignant and more interesting.
Yes, yes. I think beating your breast and crying to the gods is the most obvious and first choice of any writer to show grief, but you dig a little deeper and it stops being a monolithic thing--GRIEF--and becomes all the individual pains that make it unique to one person. And that's when you start to feel it instead of just recognizing it.