User blog:Mroddy/Let's Talk: Eclipse

Here we go again! Rather than trivia sections, although I really should do those too. But so much effort. I typically do a Let’s Talk, for each elimination in my stories. Eclipse will be no different.

Here we’ll go over my thoughts on the character; Why I included them in the story, reasoning for their elimination, thoughts on the reader reaction, their future and anything else I can think of. This season unlike the past, I’ve actually been obsessing with songs, and music, and so every eliminated character actually has a song that leads up to their elimination in a sense. Or summarizes their story for this season. In a sense the song is why they were eliminated.

Andre: Lifeguard - Scott Helman
Let me preface this by saying until I actually started to write the second chapter, Andre was not intended to go home. Until I heard Lifeguard on the radio, and I instantly fell in love with the song, and knew it was Andre’s, and that Andre would be going home. First. Again. Which actually killed me to do, and I thought about keeping him around a little longer, but I just couldn’t do that to myself.

Why did I include Andre in the first place? Dania. I wanted to see Andre and Dania together for once, rather than apart. And I guess we did see that for a short period of time. I really wanted to see Andre react to Dania being on the other team. Would he still fight with the rest of his team, or would he worry about Dania and try to protect her, to keep her safe so she can keep competing. I also wanted to look at Andre as an “idol” a popular singer in Canada now, and how that impacts his relationships with his team.

But also as an idol in a different sense. Andre was the biggest loser from Frozen, and then went on to be so much more in Tides. With characters like Julien, and Damien kicking around on Eclipse, I wanted to see him in a slight mentorship role. I wanted to see him try and guide them to be a little bit more than what they are already.

I think a lot of these storylines are still present in the Eclipse chapters, mostly because I still felt them relevant. We see Andre try and pass the torch on to Damien. We see Andre excited that Julien is on their team - a chance to fix the mistakes he made with Alfie. We see him and Dania together and of course we see him get eliminated because his team thought he threw the challenge.

Except he didn’t. That right there is what I think makes me so excited for this season. The final scene with Emmett promising he’ll keep an eye on Dania for Andre, but Andre refusing, saying she doesn’t need it. That Dania can handle herself. It warmed my heart. (and before you all start to think that I’m just setting Dania up to be a winner zzz Please, have more faith.)

Normally I take this time to talk about what would happen if Andre were to return to Eclipse, but I know without a doubt he will not. He’ll be off…. Somewhere else.

There’s still Blossoming though. So who knows.