Literary Sacriledge of a Pannish Nature
Aug. 21st, 2004 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesseSo the Ormond Street hospital, to whom J. M. Barrie granted copyright of Peter Pan, has decided to cash in and commision a sequel. JK declined, apparently was too busy, and Philip Pullman very kindly told them to stick their money-grubbbing mouths up their asses, but you know they're going to make it anyway. And it's just wrong.
I've loved Pan since I was a little girl, and from time immemorial have been a passionate Wendy/Peter shipper. I even had this long mental story about his coming to get her and taking her back to Neverland and getting married and everything, but I never even thought about writing it. Because the ending of Pan is beautiful and tragic and true, and should not be messed with, and even as a kid I knew that.
It kind of reminds me of the Grey Havens in LotR, where I would give anything to have Frodo stay with Sam and Rose in a nice happy threesome but I can never quite believe it or condone that belief. The ending is cruelly realistic, and to change it would be to diminish the entire story.
And I feel like that even more with Pan. I can read ignoring-the-havens F/S, but ignoring-the-ending Pan stuff just seems wrong. It undermines everything that the book is about. I wish that the world was not as Tolkien and Barrie showed it to us, but it is. Fantasy's escapism is so often truer than fact at transcendental levels, and in that, I think, lies its greatest power. That's what sets apart the masters, and what makes the genre worthwhile.
Am hacked off as hell about this.
I've loved Pan since I was a little girl, and from time immemorial have been a passionate Wendy/Peter shipper. I even had this long mental story about his coming to get her and taking her back to Neverland and getting married and everything, but I never even thought about writing it. Because the ending of Pan is beautiful and tragic and true, and should not be messed with, and even as a kid I knew that.
It kind of reminds me of the Grey Havens in LotR, where I would give anything to have Frodo stay with Sam and Rose in a nice happy threesome but I can never quite believe it or condone that belief. The ending is cruelly realistic, and to change it would be to diminish the entire story.
And I feel like that even more with Pan. I can read ignoring-the-havens F/S, but ignoring-the-ending Pan stuff just seems wrong. It undermines everything that the book is about. I wish that the world was not as Tolkien and Barrie showed it to us, but it is. Fantasy's escapism is so often truer than fact at transcendental levels, and in that, I think, lies its greatest power. That's what sets apart the masters, and what makes the genre worthwhile.
Am hacked off as hell about this.