LOVE THIS -- because with the literal retelling of Andromeda and Perseus andrescuing Mary from the sea monster...but I never thought of this as the lynchpin that started it all. :)
LOL yep. Watched that scene in ep 3, thought "I bet this is going to foreshadow what's going to happen over the rest of the show only Matthew's going to become Perseus hur hur hur wouldn't it be cool to retell it literally with Mary on a rock in the middle of the sea and Matthew rescuing her. Hmm."
Then heard Violet's line in ep 6 about the not too picky Italian and thought, "Well that's an amusing idea, wouldn't it make a cool fanfic if Mary actually went to Italy to find a not too picky Italian."
And then at some point soon afterwards I thought, "Hey Italy is like this far off fantasy country where gothic novels are set and girls get locked up in castles and it's ok because it's Italy so maybe I can work with this." Hey presto! :)
Thank you so much for reading and being so enthusiastic. I cannot tell you what it means to have a reader like you - seriously. I'm so grateful.
Awww, well I totally did NOT spend last night going back over favorite chapters of CP or anything, nooooo, not me... ;)
It occurs to me, randomly -- that in the whole idea of what's a dream and what isn't, the line from "Life on Mars" 2x08 (a.k.a., my favorite show finale of ALL TIME) applies here: "You know when you're alive, because you can feel it. And you know when you're not, because you can't feel anything."
That interpretation would lead to the wonderfully surreal idea that Matthew is "alive" in his dream with Mary, that his dream is (and should be) his reality and (in a more literal way) the rest of CP is about his "waking up" to realize that. :D That Matthew is passive, because he's sleepwalking -- but it takes Sybil (the all-knowing!) to wake him up to the reality of what he wants his life to be.
It just adds another cool layer onto CP -- Matthew abandoning his "dream world" (Downton) for "reality" (Italy) and just...ahhhh, I KNEW there was a reason I adored it so. :) (also fits with the "dream/real life" themes in DA itself!) Whereas Mary's reality is a nightmare, not a dream -- and it takes Matthew's presence in it to stabilize it once more, to wake her up from her (unpleasant) dream life.
...OK, I sound slightly insane now -- but this is one of my favorite themes of all time, and just...sigh. :) LOVE IT. :D
LOVE THIS -- because with the literal retelling of Andromeda and Perseus andrescuing Mary from the sea monster...but I never thought of this as the lynchpin that started it all. :)
LOL yep. Watched that scene in ep 3, thought "I bet this is going to foreshadow what's going to happen over the rest of the show only Matthew's going to become Perseus hur hur hur wouldn't it be cool to retell it literally with Mary on a rock in the middle of the sea and Matthew rescuing her. Hmm."
Then heard Violet's line in ep 6 about the not too picky Italian and thought, "Well that's an amusing idea, wouldn't it make a cool fanfic if Mary actually went to Italy to find a not too picky Italian."
And then at some point soon afterwards I thought, "Hey Italy is like this far off fantasy country where gothic novels are set and girls get locked up in castles and it's ok because it's Italy so maybe I can work with this." Hey presto! :)
Thank you so much for reading and being so enthusiastic. I cannot tell you what it means to have a reader like you - seriously. I'm so grateful.
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It occurs to me, randomly -- that in the whole idea of what's a dream and what isn't, the line from "Life on Mars" 2x08 (a.k.a., my favorite show finale of ALL TIME) applies here: "You know when you're alive, because you can feel it. And you know when you're not, because you can't feel anything."
That interpretation would lead to the wonderfully surreal idea that Matthew is "alive" in his dream with Mary, that his dream is (and should be) his reality and (in a more literal way) the rest of CP is about his "waking up" to realize that. :D That Matthew is passive, because he's sleepwalking -- but it takes Sybil (the all-knowing!) to wake him up to the reality of what he wants his life to be.
It just adds another cool layer onto CP -- Matthew abandoning his "dream world" (Downton) for "reality" (Italy) and just...ahhhh, I KNEW there was a reason I adored it so. :) (also fits with the "dream/real life" themes in DA itself!) Whereas Mary's reality is a nightmare, not a dream -- and it takes Matthew's presence in it to stabilize it once more, to wake her up from her (unpleasant) dream life.
...OK, I sound slightly insane now -- but this is one of my favorite themes of all time, and just...sigh. :) LOVE IT. :D
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