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doranwenSo I've watched up to 3x07 now. I'm going pretty slowly, but that's due to a couple things: S3 is really a different show and not as good as S1/S2 (Why do I say this?), and I wrote every day last week, sometimes large amounts. Last Sunday I wrote up to the wall I'm stuck on with my tropey idfic, and then I had a plot bunny for a 2x11 AU which I started Monday. Wrote 1k then, 3k on Tuesday, 2k on Wednesday, 4k on Thursday, and another 1k Friday. I've written a few hundred words tonight but I'm running into some issues, which I'll list in no particular order of importance.
1. Given that my OTP involves Sam, Jack has to be dealt with or he'll threaten the life of whoever she's with (Bailey, in my fics). How do I have them find and catch him? The one WIP I was reading had Jack mess up and get himself an actual ticket or fine of some kind and they're having to slowly comb through the data to find him. It's a great idea but I don't want to copy theirs. Any ideas?
2. I need a case or two to have them work on. Not the whole VCTF, just little things. I'm terrible at making stuff up. In real life they wouldn't go all out and solve one case in a week of doing nothing but; they'd work a little on this and that, and provide more support to the local cops doing the actual work. The VCTF does a lot more involvement than most FBI would, but I'd still like to adhere a bit more to reality in the way they handle cases much of the time - few are going to be solved THAT fast!
3. What do I do about Sam? She's a workaholic, has a hard time letting people in (she trusts Bailey a little more but even then she doesn't really open up to him), she's still grieving Tom and blames herself for his death (and whatever else Jack does to get her attention)… In short, she has MAJOR issues and needs some serious therapy. And the thread here is pretty accurate (the response to number 5 here is even more pessimistic - I'd like to figure out a way around their prediction).
I can't figure out 1) how to get her to recognize her need to really work at healing from her trauma, 2) what that would look like in the actual sessions, and 3) how that would affect her interactions with others over the course of the therapy, particularly her relationship with Bailey. (Chloe is another matter, as my 2x10 AU premise is a more depressing one where the court case does NOT go Sam's way.) About the only thing I can recognize is what problems she has - compartmentalizing too much, choosing work over relationships when she shouldn't, bottling up emotions instead of letting them out (especially when she should be confiding in others)…
It's like she developed a dismissive-avoidant attachment style as an adult when she had a secure one with her mother until she was ten. All the attachment theory stuff suggests poor attachment early on, but Sam looks like there was a good attachment with mom until mom was out of the picture. We have no idea what her relationship with Tom was like but I wouldn't be surprised if she had the emotional distance issues even then to some extent, thanks to her father's relationship with her, which is a big imprint on how she would relate to guys. S3, which is pretty terrible as far as continuity goes, *does* suggest she never dated anyone else and was with Tom by the time she was done with school. Am betting he pursued her (definitely not the other way around) and thought himself lucky to have such a smart and beautiful wife, and never noticed or else didn't mind that she didn't really open up that much to him.
1. Given that my OTP involves Sam, Jack has to be dealt with or he'll threaten the life of whoever she's with (Bailey, in my fics). How do I have them find and catch him? The one WIP I was reading had Jack mess up and get himself an actual ticket or fine of some kind and they're having to slowly comb through the data to find him. It's a great idea but I don't want to copy theirs. Any ideas?
2. I need a case or two to have them work on. Not the whole VCTF, just little things. I'm terrible at making stuff up. In real life they wouldn't go all out and solve one case in a week of doing nothing but; they'd work a little on this and that, and provide more support to the local cops doing the actual work. The VCTF does a lot more involvement than most FBI would, but I'd still like to adhere a bit more to reality in the way they handle cases much of the time - few are going to be solved THAT fast!
3. What do I do about Sam? She's a workaholic, has a hard time letting people in (she trusts Bailey a little more but even then she doesn't really open up to him), she's still grieving Tom and blames herself for his death (and whatever else Jack does to get her attention)… In short, she has MAJOR issues and needs some serious therapy. And the thread here is pretty accurate (the response to number 5 here is even more pessimistic - I'd like to figure out a way around their prediction).
I can't figure out 1) how to get her to recognize her need to really work at healing from her trauma, 2) what that would look like in the actual sessions, and 3) how that would affect her interactions with others over the course of the therapy, particularly her relationship with Bailey. (Chloe is another matter, as my 2x10 AU premise is a more depressing one where the court case does NOT go Sam's way.) About the only thing I can recognize is what problems she has - compartmentalizing too much, choosing work over relationships when she shouldn't, bottling up emotions instead of letting them out (especially when she should be confiding in others)…
It's like she developed a dismissive-avoidant attachment style as an adult when she had a secure one with her mother until she was ten. All the attachment theory stuff suggests poor attachment early on, but Sam looks like there was a good attachment with mom until mom was out of the picture. We have no idea what her relationship with Tom was like but I wouldn't be surprised if she had the emotional distance issues even then to some extent, thanks to her father's relationship with her, which is a big imprint on how she would relate to guys. S3, which is pretty terrible as far as continuity goes, *does* suggest she never dated anyone else and was with Tom by the time she was done with school. Am betting he pursued her (definitely not the other way around) and thought himself lucky to have such a smart and beautiful wife, and never noticed or else didn't mind that she didn't really open up that much to him.
