MERCEDES AND DOC??? ARE THEY SERIOUS???

MERCEDES AND DOC??? ARE THEY SERIOUS???

Souvenir by boygenius is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard I love it so much

Ok but what if the Legends just started sending the newbies who don’t know any better to the crossovers instead of the ones who are the most tired of this shit? The Waverider shows up for the big crisis and all the other characters are like “yay Sara’s here!” But it’s just Charlie pretending to be Sara. Or Astra and Spooner who were definitely lied to about the purpose of this trip. Gary with a note pinned to his shirt that says “You didn’t specify which Legends you wanted. No take backsies. XO Sara.”

The trio is back! ↳ Wynonna Earp // Wynonna Earp: Vengeance

Waverly still greeting Wynonna with a shotgun

Wynonna’s backstory in the special as a 15 year old messing around with magic to prove her “delusions” and accidentally creating the special’s Big Bad Mina.

We need to address this inconsistency as a fandom.

Besides from the fact she was very knowledgeable about things that are an inconsistency not just in the lore of the TV show but also for her characterization… I think her motivations to use magic to prove herself is definitely something that Wynonna would attempt to do. Especially with feeling as powerless and insecure as she felt back when she was a juvie-stained teenager who just wanted to protect Waverly. I think that makes sense for Wynonna at that point in her life and Nedley does bring up the truth of this in the special. That she was a little power hungry and she deep-down thought her father and big sister were horrible to her and due to always being the “weak one” she couldn’t really do anything but sit and stew in her borne insecurities.

Hence why her main priority was always Waverly - who was just as weak but a whole lot smarter than her. So what I don’t think makes any sense at all is that she was basically more like an aggressive Waverly in those flashback scenes in that she was hyper aware of and so adamant about things that adult Wynonna isn’t and has already proven wasn’t in the TV show. That whole spiel 15 year old Wynonna gives about the homestead being built on a bedrock of the mineral ammolite to ward off the evil that wanted to attack her family…

Honestly, sometimes I think Emily knows and loves her characters so much to the point where she ends up just mixing them up because in 1x02 the character that knew that information or was smart enough to figure it out was not Wynonna. It was Dolls. It’s not that 15 year old Wynonna wouldn’t do those things in those flashback scenes that we saw. It’s that she was uncharacteristically knowledgeable when she did.

The storytelling feels off because the character does. And I say this all the time - but how to avoid that is by wrapping the narrative around the characterization rather than wrapping the characterization around the narrative. In other words: if Emily had just thought for a moment about what kind of character Wynonna is or would be when she was that age - she wouldn’t have made an inconsistency in both the lore and character.

So I like the backstory. I even like the portrayal by the actress. What I don’t like is the OOC script writing for a 15 year old Wynonna who had no idea what the mineral “ammolite” even is or was used for, let alone knew the homestead was built on a bedrock of it because it wasn’t even HER who figured that out. And it certainly wouldn’t have been a 15 year old Wynonna who would be knowledgable enough to figure it out.

A 15 year old Waverly. Sure. A 15 year old Jeremy. Sure.

Even a 15 year old Dolls. Sure. A 15 year old Wynonna?