Maybe I've just seen the Disney movie (which has almost nothing to do with the book, I know) too many times. It's a dark freaking book. The baby TURNS INTO A PIG.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Aims - Jan 25, 2008 9:24:21 am PST #4873 of 28689
Shit's all sorts of different now.
§ ita § - Jan 25, 2008 9:25:24 am PST #4874 of 28689
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It wasn't a nice baby.
Atropa - Jan 25, 2008 9:29:33 am PST #4875 of 28689
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Maybe I've just seen the Disney movie (which has almost nothing to do with the book, I know) too many times.
Ah, that would do it. I like the Disney movie too, but AiW is one of the books I was raised on. I have a fierce and almost irrational love for it.
It's a dark freaking book. The baby TURNS INTO A PIG.
As ita says, it wasn't a nice baby.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 25, 2008 9:31:55 am PST #4876 of 28689
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Suddenly wants Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and/or Through the Looking Glass
OK, maybe not so suddenly.
I'd more than settle for Terry Gilliam's.
Atropa - Jan 25, 2008 9:33:48 am PST #4877 of 28689
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Tim is working on Alice in Wonderland! It's his next movie. I'm trying to figure out if I know anyone at all that could get me onto the set as an extra. Because, eeeee! Tim Burton and Alice in Wonderland!
Pix - Jan 25, 2008 9:34:39 am PST #4878 of 28689
The status is NOT quo.
I know!! So exciting. (If you get on the set, I shall be terribly jealous. Terribly happy for you, but also terribly jealous.)
Frankenbuddha - Jan 25, 2008 9:35:01 am PST #4879 of 28689
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Tim is working on Alice in Wonderland! It's his next movie.
Wuhhuh? Coooool! Happy Friday, everyone!
Ginger - Jan 25, 2008 9:42:50 am PST #4880 of 28689
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Believing six impossible things before breakfast!
"It's jam yesterday and jam tomorrow, but never jam today."
"Twas brillig and the slithy toves...."
(Those are Through the Looking Glass, I think.)
It wasn't a nice baby.
Being a pig was probably its finest hour.
Pix - Jan 25, 2008 9:47:17 am PST #4881 of 28689
The status is NOT quo.
Have you read the real Peter Pan yet, Aimee? I imagine you'll have a similar reaction to that. Children's books used to be a whole helluva lot darker than they are now.
Aims - Jan 25, 2008 9:51:08 am PST #4882 of 28689
Shit's all sorts of different now.
LOVE Peter Pan. But I knew the book before I knew the movie on that one, also.