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Aug. 29th, 2013 01:51 amSo I'm about halfway through chapter 4 of a Rockford Files fic. It is moving along very nicely, with lots of character interaction and some cameos. Vern St. Cloud is in it; this is finally going to be the story in which Jim Rockford and Vern team up, something I've wanted to write since I saw all of Vern's episodes and was disappointed by all but the first one.
It also heavily involves some of the characters from The Queen of Peru episode, the one I previously mentioned where Chrissy plays the rather nasty but quite interesting Ginger Townsend.
One of Simon's characters also plays a part in my WWW Airship fic; Captain Caldwell is leading an attempt at a rescue mission of the hostages. Arte and Snakes are with him.
I'm glad to be writing for two Simon characters right around this time. The celebration of and tributes for Simon, his career, and his life continues into today, since Simon sadly died the day after his birthday in 1983. We managed to get back into the blog, after I finally located the connected email address and original password, so Crystal made a post this past day and I'll be posting later today. I'm still posting pictures on Tumblr, too.
And I have assorted other projects I'd like to get to, mainly some fics with Snakes and Coley that will likely only go up on Livejournal or Tumblr.
This past morning I watched the Perry Mason episode The Meddling Medium and was reminded again of my desire to write a creepy sequel to it. I just really get the feeling that Phillip maybe wasn't just being a fraud with his automatic writing by the end of his life; I think both he and Bonnie ended up really channeling spirits and that's why Phillip was so freaked out screaming that Bonnie was a fraud, not him, when he was drunkenly watching her before his death. He could have just been proud of his abilities to fake a trance, true, but I really get the feeling that it wasn't just that. Perry being Perry, of course they wouldn't ever state any idea of there really being something supernatural happening (without it being debunked), but the possibility is definitely there, left by the clever writer (one of my favorite writers on the show, Samuel Newman) and the actors' abilities.
... You know, I always assumed that by proving Bonnie has ESP, the assumption would be that her trance was picking up the thoughts of the real murderer in the room. But I realize that wasn't ever actually stated, and now I'm wondering if they really were deliberately leaving the possibility open that she was channeling a spirit.
I hope the October Writing comm will be operational again this year; I was thinking I might write this sequel fic for it.
Among my various ideas for it would be that it takes place after the episode and weird things are still happening. Everyone is freaked out and disturbed and calls Perry for help. But he and Paul can't find any trace of someone rigging ghostly things to happen, and they involve Mignon Germaine, who manages to communicate with the restless spirits, but not enough to find out what's really happening. Bonnie will probably go into another trance and write something ominous and creepy.
I want there to be either a flashback or a discovery of some scribbled notes at one point, which will show that while Phillip started out as a fraud, he did attract the attention of some real spirits, probably even Thomas, and they started channeling messages through him. Realizing what was happening, and unable to rid himself of the spirits, Phillip became more moody and even unhinged, hysterical over the horror he had brought upon himself.
I think in the end they'll discover that both Thomas and Phillip are haunting the house. One idea I was toying with is that Phillip can't move on until he has the forgiveness of the people he hurt in the house, but I'm not sure about that angle. I always worry that doing such an angle will make the people who were hurt look terrible if they can't so readily forgive, and also that it will throw too much sympathy on the offenders and whitewash their crimes. It's a very difficult balance to portray the fact that they really did horrible things but still need forgiveness. And that it's only human and not horrible if the people they hurt can't just up and forgive right away.
It also heavily involves some of the characters from The Queen of Peru episode, the one I previously mentioned where Chrissy plays the rather nasty but quite interesting Ginger Townsend.
One of Simon's characters also plays a part in my WWW Airship fic; Captain Caldwell is leading an attempt at a rescue mission of the hostages. Arte and Snakes are with him.
I'm glad to be writing for two Simon characters right around this time. The celebration of and tributes for Simon, his career, and his life continues into today, since Simon sadly died the day after his birthday in 1983. We managed to get back into the blog, after I finally located the connected email address and original password, so Crystal made a post this past day and I'll be posting later today. I'm still posting pictures on Tumblr, too.
And I have assorted other projects I'd like to get to, mainly some fics with Snakes and Coley that will likely only go up on Livejournal or Tumblr.
This past morning I watched the Perry Mason episode The Meddling Medium and was reminded again of my desire to write a creepy sequel to it. I just really get the feeling that Phillip maybe wasn't just being a fraud with his automatic writing by the end of his life; I think both he and Bonnie ended up really channeling spirits and that's why Phillip was so freaked out screaming that Bonnie was a fraud, not him, when he was drunkenly watching her before his death. He could have just been proud of his abilities to fake a trance, true, but I really get the feeling that it wasn't just that. Perry being Perry, of course they wouldn't ever state any idea of there really being something supernatural happening (without it being debunked), but the possibility is definitely there, left by the clever writer (one of my favorite writers on the show, Samuel Newman) and the actors' abilities.
... You know, I always assumed that by proving Bonnie has ESP, the assumption would be that her trance was picking up the thoughts of the real murderer in the room. But I realize that wasn't ever actually stated, and now I'm wondering if they really were deliberately leaving the possibility open that she was channeling a spirit.
I hope the October Writing comm will be operational again this year; I was thinking I might write this sequel fic for it.
Among my various ideas for it would be that it takes place after the episode and weird things are still happening. Everyone is freaked out and disturbed and calls Perry for help. But he and Paul can't find any trace of someone rigging ghostly things to happen, and they involve Mignon Germaine, who manages to communicate with the restless spirits, but not enough to find out what's really happening. Bonnie will probably go into another trance and write something ominous and creepy.
I want there to be either a flashback or a discovery of some scribbled notes at one point, which will show that while Phillip started out as a fraud, he did attract the attention of some real spirits, probably even Thomas, and they started channeling messages through him. Realizing what was happening, and unable to rid himself of the spirits, Phillip became more moody and even unhinged, hysterical over the horror he had brought upon himself.
I think in the end they'll discover that both Thomas and Phillip are haunting the house. One idea I was toying with is that Phillip can't move on until he has the forgiveness of the people he hurt in the house, but I'm not sure about that angle. I always worry that doing such an angle will make the people who were hurt look terrible if they can't so readily forgive, and also that it will throw too much sympathy on the offenders and whitewash their crimes. It's a very difficult balance to portray the fact that they really did horrible things but still need forgiveness. And that it's only human and not horrible if the people they hurt can't just up and forgive right away.
