Posted: November 12, 2009, 04:29:57 PM
I couldn't help thinking about the Torchwood episode "From Out of the Rain", with all the spooky carnival stuff.
Leads in the story are kind of split 70-30 between the "mom" and the "son". Mrs. Worth, ok, she did her thing. But making the kid actually a much older person trapped in a young body that had to pretend to be a little kid seemed a pretty risky proposition for a lead character.
It potentially turns the audience against the character instead of sympathizing. I mean, any mom who's ever bathed their young son would be likely be very offended at finding out he's really some old guy instead. (That's oversimplifying, I realize.) I thought the notion kind of off-putting, myself.
Plotwise, I thought things went pretty well, and many of the characters definitely fit the bill of what I pictured old-fashioned circus freaks to be like.
Nate
Leads in the story are kind of split 70-30 between the "mom" and the "son". Mrs. Worth, ok, she did her thing. But making the kid actually a much older person trapped in a young body that had to pretend to be a little kid seemed a pretty risky proposition for a lead character.
It potentially turns the audience against the character instead of sympathizing. I mean, any mom who's ever bathed their young son would be likely be very offended at finding out he's really some old guy instead. (That's oversimplifying, I realize.) I thought the notion kind of off-putting, myself.
Plotwise, I thought things went pretty well, and many of the characters definitely fit the bill of what I pictured old-fashioned circus freaks to be like.
Nate