I feel like we need to talk about the “subtext” Part of metatron’s speech last night ;)

obsessionisaperfume:

tous-les-coups:

caswouldratherbehere:

Oh yeah, that was totally Robbie reaching out to us. Hell, that was him acknowledging that subtext is part of what gives a story meaning. Especially following that up with asking if it’s the writers that do it, or us. He actually, by putting subtext last and leading that into discussing the possibility of both the writer and the consumer assigning meaning, gave subtext the most amount of weight. (The acting reinforced that too.)

He legitimized a large portion of what we do in fandom and I could just kiss him for it.

Okay okay, so we’re sick of subtext and want it to be text. But I will take this, because it not only tells me subtext is just as important and valid as characters, plot and text, it tells me that they all work together and subtext has a place, and can always become text.

Actually. I knew all of that. What it really tells me is that so does Robbie.

mmhm.  And Robbie’s always been very pro-subtext, pro-interpretation — it’s a lot of what we talked about at Burcon.  It’s very nice to see that viewpoint worked into the actual show, rather than just outside conversations 😀

Between this episode and Jerry Wanek’s tweet about the deliberate way they set up the framing and the set dressing, it’s a good time to be a meta writer…