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ladybug_archiveI seem to have lost half my audience on the Perry Mason fic. I'm not sure if it's because they think I killed poor Mr. Burger off or if they don't like the teeny-tiny references to the present day.
Perry Mason is a fandom that I definitely think could adapt to any era. Every time something's been done with it, it's taken place in the present day of whenever it was put out. (The movies, the thirties. The original TV show, the fifties/sixties. The other TV show, the seventies.) Of course, I'm writing for the original TV show; I just chose to poke it into the here and now. Nevertheless, I wasn't actually going to reference the present day unless it really had to come up. Well, as it turned out, it was pretty much unavoidable a couple of times in chapter three. But I think the references are very natural and don't distract from what's happening.
If the lost reviewers do think I killed off Mr. Burger, I wish they'd give chapter three a try! On the other hand, maybe they just haven't gotten to it yet by sheer coincidence. In any case, I replied to one agonized reviewer and tried to hint that the tides turned in chapter three.
Speaking of legal/law fandoms, I have learned that there is a new series of Phoenix Wright manga that actually is like the games, following cases and such instead of just compiling a bunch of silly, fan-made stories like the so-called "Official Casebooks" do. I can't seem to find out much more about the case-based manga, such as whether my other favorite prosecutor Miles Edgeworth is in it, but surely he would be. Only volume 1 has been released in America so far, although volume 2 is supposed to come later this month, I think. I stuck volume 1 into my Amazon shopping cart with two other things. Come morning, when money processes in my bank account, I can finally make a purchase. I really shouldn't get the manga too, but I don't think I can resist. From the sound of it, it's exactly what I thought and hoped in vain that the "Official Casebooks" would be like before I saw them and heard about them from other fans. I've browsed through the Casebooks a few times in stores, but haven't ever really known what to make of them (or of their price). Their price has come down, but I still don't know what to make of them. I'd rather get this other manga series.
Borders had a pretty book with artwork from the games. Even with 25% off, it was still too much. I think I'll be able to go again next Monday, when the prices will be even better, but I suppose by then the book will be gone. That's one problem with going out of business sales. By the time the prices get really good on most things, there's not much good stuff left.
Oh, I remember what I wanted to talk about in the morning. I actually saw a Circus Boy episode that rather irritated me. I've been watching since June and it's the first one that I've felt really bombed.
It involved Tim Champion, the circus's owner, trying to marry his childhood sweetheart. It was the standard variety of "he can't marry her after all because something else, in this case the circus, is still his real true love" plot. That was not what bothered me (even though that plot is kind of lame and wearing out its welcome), so please don't think that it is.
What bothered me was that he sold the circus to these guys who then went back on their word and tried to have most of the circus people fired in order to bring in their own people. Tim was angry because they'd promised his people could stay on, and they're his friends and he didn't want to see them turned out in the cold with nowhere to go. So he found out right before the wedding and wanted to go see about making those creeps hold to their deal. And his fiancee decided that because he wouldn't leave the circus problems alone after selling it, the circus was still his first love and she wouldn't marry him then.
Um. So basically she's saying that he shouldn't have been worried about his friends? That because he sold the circus their welfare shouldn't concern him any more and they shouldn't be considered his friends anymore and he should have just let them get unfairly fired or feel forced to quit? That's terrible! Even if the writers didn't intend for that message to come across, it really did. I wasn't sure whether I was more disgusted by the girl's attitude or by the writers putting that in in the first place.
Perry Mason is a fandom that I definitely think could adapt to any era. Every time something's been done with it, it's taken place in the present day of whenever it was put out. (The movies, the thirties. The original TV show, the fifties/sixties. The other TV show, the seventies.) Of course, I'm writing for the original TV show; I just chose to poke it into the here and now. Nevertheless, I wasn't actually going to reference the present day unless it really had to come up. Well, as it turned out, it was pretty much unavoidable a couple of times in chapter three. But I think the references are very natural and don't distract from what's happening.
If the lost reviewers do think I killed off Mr. Burger, I wish they'd give chapter three a try! On the other hand, maybe they just haven't gotten to it yet by sheer coincidence. In any case, I replied to one agonized reviewer and tried to hint that the tides turned in chapter three.
Speaking of legal/law fandoms, I have learned that there is a new series of Phoenix Wright manga that actually is like the games, following cases and such instead of just compiling a bunch of silly, fan-made stories like the so-called "Official Casebooks" do. I can't seem to find out much more about the case-based manga, such as whether my other favorite prosecutor Miles Edgeworth is in it, but surely he would be. Only volume 1 has been released in America so far, although volume 2 is supposed to come later this month, I think. I stuck volume 1 into my Amazon shopping cart with two other things. Come morning, when money processes in my bank account, I can finally make a purchase. I really shouldn't get the manga too, but I don't think I can resist. From the sound of it, it's exactly what I thought and hoped in vain that the "Official Casebooks" would be like before I saw them and heard about them from other fans. I've browsed through the Casebooks a few times in stores, but haven't ever really known what to make of them (or of their price). Their price has come down, but I still don't know what to make of them. I'd rather get this other manga series.
Borders had a pretty book with artwork from the games. Even with 25% off, it was still too much. I think I'll be able to go again next Monday, when the prices will be even better, but I suppose by then the book will be gone. That's one problem with going out of business sales. By the time the prices get really good on most things, there's not much good stuff left.
Oh, I remember what I wanted to talk about in the morning. I actually saw a Circus Boy episode that rather irritated me. I've been watching since June and it's the first one that I've felt really bombed.
It involved Tim Champion, the circus's owner, trying to marry his childhood sweetheart. It was the standard variety of "he can't marry her after all because something else, in this case the circus, is still his real true love" plot. That was not what bothered me (even though that plot is kind of lame and wearing out its welcome), so please don't think that it is.
What bothered me was that he sold the circus to these guys who then went back on their word and tried to have most of the circus people fired in order to bring in their own people. Tim was angry because they'd promised his people could stay on, and they're his friends and he didn't want to see them turned out in the cold with nowhere to go. So he found out right before the wedding and wanted to go see about making those creeps hold to their deal. And his fiancee decided that because he wouldn't leave the circus problems alone after selling it, the circus was still his first love and she wouldn't marry him then.
Um. So basically she's saying that he shouldn't have been worried about his friends? That because he sold the circus their welfare shouldn't concern him any more and they shouldn't be considered his friends anymore and he should have just let them get unfairly fired or feel forced to quit? That's terrible! Even if the writers didn't intend for that message to come across, it really did. I wasn't sure whether I was more disgusted by the girl's attitude or by the writers putting that in in the first place.
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Date: 2011-08-09 02:42 pm (UTC)True!
LOL. Yes. Of course, back in the day, the slashers were still hiding in their closets. I don't think they started emerging with their fanon ideas and fanfics until the latter part of the 1960s.
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Date: 2011-08-09 03:29 pm (UTC)Sounds about accurate to me...