Fanfic - Torchwood / Chronicles of Narnia - The Problem of Susan - II

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This is a crossover between the Dr. Who universe and the Narnia stories - all characters etc. belong to various people who aren't me, there is no intent to infringe on their rights. Comments, warnings about spelling mistakes, etc. etc. gratefully received.

Comments

[whswhs]

The plot thickener is working, I see. I'm completely at a loss where you're going with this, though that may be partly because I'm not familiar with any of the Who continuity and so could be missing pointers. But you're holding my interest. It sounds as if someone has been flashythinged.

Was that sort of breakfast actually regarded as unhealthy in 1945 or so? I had the impression the armies of unsaturation didn't start marching until the fifties or even the sixties. I remember one of the Narnia books described how the Calormenes cooked with nasty oils instead of wholesome butter.

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A good point, but she's a young woman and trying to stay attractive. Maybe I'll substitute "fattening" for "unhealthy",

[speakr2customrs]

Fats weren't regarded as especially fattening until the sugar industry really got busy blackening their name so that the sugar producers could dodge responsibility for the problems they cause - and that wasn't until the '60s if I recall correctly. Certainly in Agatha Christie books written in the Thirties and Forties someone who was dieting would eat any amount of bacon and the like but would scrape the Hundreds and Thousands off the cream topping of their trifle.

I'm struggling with this because I only ever watched one episode of Torchwood - because someone had done a Torchwood video to Thea Gilmore's wonderful cover of 'Ever Fallen In Love', and made it look much more interesting than it proved to be in actuality - and so I'm finding it very hard to understand what's going on. Someone seems to be wiping Susan's mind - and that makes them Evil with a capital E in my view.

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Torchwood - erasing memories of unusual events for the good of the state(?) since 1879. In this case they actually think they have good reason, though that's a matter of opinion and a somewhat biased interpretation of canon Narnia stuff.

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Thanks re the diet point - I'll change it a little.

[whswhs]

I'm glad to see that historical point. I had the impression that fear of fats was a more recent thing historically, but I didn't have specific dates or events to point to.