... **headdesk.**

[ladybug_archive]

A little romance in the fandom here and there is fine, but it's honestly kind of annoying when I find five pages of Perry Mason/Della Street fanfiction and only about two stories in the whole section that are Gen/Mystery genre! Seriously, almost everyone writing for the show at FF.net seems to have a one-track mind. That was the case several years ago when I looked before, as well.

Also, I thought it was a little odd that the slashers hadn't come out to play. Then I see there's one on Archive of Our Own, writing Perry Mason/Paul Drake.

I still find it strange that the slashers don't engage in Perry Mason/Hamilton Burger. Not that I want to see it; it would honestly be rather frightening. But in an anime series, and probably in recent TV shows or movies, rival characters like them who have a very interesting and complex relationship (they've gone out to lunch and dinner, they occasionally work together on cases, Burger once asked Perry to defend a friend of his) would excite the slashers to no end.

I wish someone would show some interest in writing about them in a Gen way (though honestly, since it seems like anything concerning them is downright impossible and non-existent to find, I'd probably be willing to even read a mild slashfic on them if it existed). Their interaction is the main thing that intrigues me about the show (and the main thing that contributed to me being a casual fan). I've watched it off and on for probably twelve or thirteen years, maybe longer.

And Simon Oakland's characters can't catch a break. He plays a bad fellow and ends up dead. He plays a good fellow and still ends up dead. And the latter death pretty much broke my heart. It was so needless! His character, Captain Caldwell, was killed by some kook who didn't want Caldwell's investigation into sabotage to cause his precious missile not to launch. So the nut killed him to halt the investigation.

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[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

That is bizarre. Some of the required reading these days. Oy. I don't see what one is supposed to get from books like that. Unless it's just that Charlie won in the end because he was a good kid.

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Beats me. We were also forced to read The Witches, Matilda, the BFG, and James and the Giant Peach. Oh, and then we were forced to watch the stop-motion movie of Giant Peach. Urgh. The only redeeming thing about the movie was the aunts' fates.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Ah yeah, I remember about the movie versus the book. That was a good change.

I hated the movie of Matilda so much. I can only imagine what the book was like by comparison.

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Yeah...

Yes, it's probably worse.

What really got to me was how, apparently, they changed the movie version of The Witches so that the boy-turned-to-a-mouse gets turned back to normal (he doesn't in the book, and actually seems horrifyingly happy at the fact that he has a shortened lifespan as a result), and Dahl boycotted the movie. The. Heck.!? What kind of message is he trying to give?

Also, there are aspects of Dahl's personal life that get to me--he was a racist, and you know how that affects me on a personal level...

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that really is odd. All I can figure out is that Dahl wanted to give the message to find happiness in whatever circumstances you're in that can't be changed. But if the kid literally, specifically seems happy that he won't live as long, that is disturbing.

Yikes. I wasn't aware of that.

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Yes--the kid was pleased because then he wouldn't have to live alone after his grandmother died. Which seems to make the point that life isn't worth living. Oy vey.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

**headdesk.** That is a terrible message for a children's book. And from what I know of Dahl's writing style, I assume it was all told in a very light, matter-of-fact manner, as though it wasn't anything to be concerned about.

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. They both seemed happy that they would be able to "die together" **headdesks, too**

I often feel that West Side Story is more powerful than the source material of Romeo and Juliet--because Maria does live (even if she was suicidal at that point)--that she does drop the gun and doesn't kill herself.

Hmm. Now I'm wondering if maybe Schrank might've referred her to therapy or something. Or would that be OOC for him? (LOL, look what you've done to me--five years ago, I would've never considered getting plunnied by this movie...)

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Good grief!

That's an interesting point-of-view. I think you're right, both because of that point and others. Tony seems like a nicer person than Romeo was; as I recall, Romeo was quite a womanizer.

I don't know how involved Schrank would have been with Maria post-movie; somebody leads her away in the stage play and in the book, taking her to Tony's mother (in the book at least) so they can share their grief and try to draw strength from each other. Ladyamberjo can't recall whether it was Doc or Schrank. In one scene of a play version I saw, it was Doc.

It's an interesting idea for Schrank to refer her to therapy, if it could be figured out how it would happen and stay IC. I wonder if Schrank would even believe much in therapy working.