it is the merciless world which must be prepared
The problem is, she says thoughtfully.
The problem is that I love the St Trinian's drawings - the original Searle ones. And while I greatly enjoyed the recent-ish movie (and less so the sequel), and have a nostalgic fondness for the earlier ones, they don't have quite the bite that the original cartoons do. Which is understandable - it's hard to get the sheer black humour and shock value of a single cartoon into a continuing narrative which would have to deal with consequences. (The Addams Family had the same problem, I think.)
The reason why I'm pondering this is because I have a half-baked idea for a story involving a St Trinian's style school (founded by Morgan le Fay?) crossed with goetic demon-summoning, and I'd love to get some of the sheer appallingness of the drawings into it (do an image search on "st trinians searle" and you'll see what I mean), but I don't want to kill off half the pupils. (Poison, explosives, human sacrifice, "Some little girl didn't hear me say unarmed combat," etc . . .)
Pondering . . .
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"At other schools, they send young girls unprepared into a cold merciless world. But here at St. Trinian's, it is the merciless world which must be prepared."
The problem is that I love the St Trinian's drawings - the original Searle ones. And while I greatly enjoyed the recent-ish movie (and less so the sequel), and have a nostalgic fondness for the earlier ones, they don't have quite the bite that the original cartoons do. Which is understandable - it's hard to get the sheer black humour and shock value of a single cartoon into a continuing narrative which would have to deal with consequences. (The Addams Family had the same problem, I think.)
The reason why I'm pondering this is because I have a half-baked idea for a story involving a St Trinian's style school (founded by Morgan le Fay?) crossed with goetic demon-summoning, and I'd love to get some of the sheer appallingness of the drawings into it (do an image search on "st trinians searle" and you'll see what I mean), but I don't want to kill off half the pupils. (Poison, explosives, human sacrifice, "Some little girl didn't hear me say unarmed combat," etc . . .)
Pondering . . .
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"At other schools, they send young girls unprepared into a cold merciless world. But here at St. Trinian's, it is the merciless world which must be prepared."