yeah that’s a good point, is it better to have lots of eras or just a few? -‘Meeting and getting to know each other’ (yes) -‘Guille’s party’ (yes) -‘lupe’s kidnapping’ (and yeah you’re right it should be an era of its own) -‘hospital’ -‘(Tentatively) getting together’ (start’s with the second kiss and I think it should go up until they split apart in Xochimilco/Chivi’s house and before Val gets to talk to Eva?) 1/3
-‘getting outed/breaking up’ (everything Val and Eva, getting outed, breaking up, Val first and only hostage situation and Lucia’s third? poor Lucia 🙁 lol) -‘Separated but still together’ (after the hostage situation up until Lupe finds out) -‘Juls kidnapping and rescue’ (everything pre kidnapping and post) -‘Getting together till the end’. you should come up with better names because I tried and as you can see, I failed 🙁 2/3
I don’t think that’s too many? I think every era had good scenes I’ve made my peace with the scenes I didn’t particularly like I mean it’s been a few weeks and I’m trying to look at them from a different perspective. 3/3
So this is your listing of the eras.
- Meeting and getting to know each other
- Guille’s party
- Lupe’s kidnapping
- Hospital
- (Tentatively) getting together (starts with the second kiss and I think it should go up until they split apart in Xochimilco/Chivi’s house and before Val gets to talk to Eva?)
- Getting outed/breaking up (everything Val and Eva, getting outed, breaking up, Val first and only hostage situation and Lucia’s third? poor Lucia)
- Separated but still together (after the hostage situation up until Lupe finds out)
- Juls kidnapping and rescue (everything pre kidnapping and post)
- Getting together till the end
So almost the same as mine except moving some events over from 6 to 5. I think doing that makes 5 less fun, lol, even easier to pick hospital as the best era.
I felt like 9 eras might have been too many, considering it’d make it about 9 eps each, a bit short. More like chapter, lol. But they are very defined chapters, right, so whatever, it’s cool. They got so much screentime in each, it’s fair.
And don’t make your peace with the bits you didn’t like! Chapters 8 and 9 were sub par! They had great moments but it’s to the credit of the first 7 that they’d set the standard so high that they just didn’t meet it. But at least we weren’t like, wtf just happened, were those really the same people who wrote the first part? Like in some other cases.
Update- I finished priory already and idk what to do w myself now Bc idk if this is the only novel or if it’s gonna be part of a series but even if it’s part of a series it just came out which I did not knooooow lol. Do u know if it’s gonna have a sequel? The ending left things open for one but also gave enough resolution to leave it as is so I’m unsure. Asdfghjkl what a wild ride! I have so many feelings about it. This book lacked happy endings while somehow leaving things hopeful & I need more
As for an adaptation of priory, I’d love a live action one if they cast it as diverse as the characters were described in the book Bc omfg can u imagine the potential amazing cast w all these women! But then again casting is often a mess so if it didn’t stick to the book it’d be disappointing. Animated might be better for that &a the action sequences would look great, & it’d prolly be less grimdark Bc I think a live action might focus on the torture/violence/gore the way GoT does.
Heh, right, the length and the writing and the kind of story that it is, it just sticks with you. I felt the same way when I was done, still in that world.
It’s standalone but I think the author has mentioned both a prequel and a sequel. (She has a tumblr account where she openly interacts with readers, by the way.) There’s so much that can still be done with this world, especially with those trees, so I hope there’s more. And with f/f, of course.
Hmm, you make such a good point, those characters do deserve to be live action. And they’d be awesome roles for actresses who don’t usually get a chance to be in fantasy. I would hope an adaptation wouldn’t focus on the violence or, worse, manufacture its own, the book isn’t light reading but most of the violence isn’t…cruel, you know? It was the action I was most worried about, the money it’d take to do the action scenes, including a full on dragon war on the sea, would be exorbitant. So I guess there are advantages to both! I just hope there is one.
