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Day 8
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
For this challenge, I decided to switch to the Yuri On Ice fandom which I got into last January.
If you have lived under a rock, you may have missed the meteoric rise of the anime Yuri on ice which is a sports anime about mens figure skating. As a long time figure skating, slash fiction, and anime fan, this show seemed tailor made for me. Even so I was pleased by the writing which introduced a plot twist which surprised the heck out of me, and turned the story on its head. This plot twist occurred in episode 10 of a twelve episode series, so it was pretty late, and for a story to just switch on you like that at the end without warning... I must say that it was a beautiful thing to behold.
Spoilers Follow so skip if you plan to watch the show.
Now if you are with me still, you probably have already seen Yuri On Ice, and I am of course talking about the banquet flashback where Yuri asked Victor to come to train him when he was drunk.
This revelation changes Victor’s character from a goofy and impulsive eccentric who decides to go to Japan on a whim when he sees a youtube video; to a love-struck, solitary genius who takes a chance on finding the man of his dreams after forming a life-changing crush on a man he meets at a banquet who leaves the next day without even acknowledging him.
I was floored by the revelation, and I only wish that I can one day write something that good. It makes the story pleasingly rewatchable as you look at it again from Victor’s point of view. Here is a video of the scene. Enjoy!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=feXWywRi428
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
For this challenge, I decided to switch to the Yuri On Ice fandom which I got into last January.
If you have lived under a rock, you may have missed the meteoric rise of the anime Yuri on ice which is a sports anime about mens figure skating. As a long time figure skating, slash fiction, and anime fan, this show seemed tailor made for me. Even so I was pleased by the writing which introduced a plot twist which surprised the heck out of me, and turned the story on its head. This plot twist occurred in episode 10 of a twelve episode series, so it was pretty late, and for a story to just switch on you like that at the end without warning... I must say that it was a beautiful thing to behold.
Spoilers Follow so skip if you plan to watch the show.
Now if you are with me still, you probably have already seen Yuri On Ice, and I am of course talking about the banquet flashback where Yuri asked Victor to come to train him when he was drunk.
This revelation changes Victor’s character from a goofy and impulsive eccentric who decides to go to Japan on a whim when he sees a youtube video; to a love-struck, solitary genius who takes a chance on finding the man of his dreams after forming a life-changing crush on a man he meets at a banquet who leaves the next day without even acknowledging him.
I was floored by the revelation, and I only wish that I can one day write something that good. It makes the story pleasingly rewatchable as you look at it again from Victor’s point of view. Here is a video of the scene. Enjoy!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=feXWywRi428
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