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⌈ Secret Post #5263 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Well, it certainly is a controversial opinion, lol

I do get where you're coming from. I think the whole romance does basically rely on us being charmed by Harriet and finding her intrinsically sympathetic and interesting. And, I mean, I do, so it largely works for me, but there is a gap of explaining how Wimsey falls in love with her. And she's only in 4 books, Gaudy Night IMO has a fatal flaw in how it deals with the romance (it resolves everything by changing Wimsey's character), and Busman's Honeymoon is wildly uneven and frequently quite bad, although I personally find most of the Harriet/Peter matter pretty delightful.

But Strong Poison and Have His Carcase are both really good and the treatment of the romance in Have His Carcase, in particular, I think is just phenomenal.

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I not down bullet points super quick if I'm at work, or try and memorise key words about the scene to prompt me if I'm driving. Sometimes it even works!

[(Anonymous)]

Love the artwork. Is the artist the guy who did the concept art for Dark Crystal?

[(Anonymous)]

maybe the brutal schedule and working conditions shouldn't be sacrosanct in the first place?

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Not disagreeing entirely (and not OP), but in jobs where taking say... three days to do something instead of one can inflate a production budget by a LOT, I can understand why they don't 'try harder' to not have brutal production schedules.

At the end of the day, media is a business, and they're not going to want to sink a ridiculous amount of extra money into something when they don't have to especially if they can't guarantee a return on it.

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I could've written this secret in my sleep, OP! Mostly it happens to me when I'm in bed and don't want to get up and write things down. Sometimes I make a note on my phone but most of the time I'm so tired I don't even want to do that and I promise myself I'll remember in the morning, but... :(

[(Anonymous)]

I feel similarly. People rave about Gaudy Night so I was really looking forward to it, but other than a nice perspective from Harriet's POV, it didn't really do much for the romance for me. I keep meaning to try the series again but I'm not enraptured by how much of this romantic development happens "offscreen", so to speak.

[(Anonymous)]

Remind me again how it changes Wimsey's character? It's been too long since I read the books.

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Gaudy Night is a great Harriet book, a mediocre Wimsey book, and a shockingly bad mystery novel

[(Anonymous)]

... that fits with what little I recall of it, yeah.

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I guess "changes his character" isn't precisely accurate - maybe I should say that it presents his character in the same way as in every other book, but pretends he's changed. Some of that is because of Harriet's view of him, of course. but personally I just can't help but feel that the emotional resolution to the whole Harriet/Peter relationship is something that Peter as drawn in the previous books should have figured out almost immediately. If Peter is the lover, the skillful amateur who can fit himself into any social situation, the deductive genius, the one who always sees the difficulty, how did he not try this earlier. It just feels like all this idea of Peter's folly and error is at odds with the earlier conflict of his character.

Also, it retcons the ending of Carcase which always bothered me but that's a minor matter.

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Not OP, but this is John Bauer! He's a Swedish book illustrator from the early 20th century. I love his stuff.

I think the guy you might be thinking of with Dark Crystal is Brian Froud? He also does some gorgeous work. I owned his Good Faeries/Bad Faeries book as a kid and stared at it for years.