Oddly enough I was 'managing my circle' a few days ago and noticed that your account showed up as never having had any entries at all... I assumed you'd grown up and left fandom, I'm afraid!
Even more of a coincidence is that I very nearly included your headcanons about the de Chagny family as secret supporters of the Comte de Chambord in yesterday's 'collected Raoul' post -- but I left it out on the grounds that it wasn't my headcanon, however much it appealed to me, and that you weren't writing it any more :-(
(Can I invite you to the severely underpopulated vicomte_de_chagny community? ;-)
I lost all access to Tumblr a year or so ago when they put in a new verification screen that my browser can't navigate past; it's a pain because there are a couple of useful reference pages that I had linked to. I keep meaning to try to cut and paste the content via an emulator, but have never got round to it. I gather from the recent dw_news announcement that they've done some kind of purge of 'adult content'...
The incest element certainly wasn't obvious in advance to me -- it's entirely normal for someone like Lucille to be incredibly possessive and controlling of her family without actually descending into lust. But as I said, I assumed that the supernatural element was much greater than it proved to be -- one of the criticisms I found in a contemporary review was that the ghosts don't really serve any purpose in the plot. Edith makes her own discoveries and fights her own struggle, and the story could have been written very much the same without any floaty apparitions at all -- they're only there for scares. (And in fact they're undermining their own cause, as it were, by being so hideous: all the ghosts in the plot are actually helpful and well-intentioned, yet they're all horrifying enough to scare their target out of her wits. If Edith's mother wanted to warn her, she would have done better to materialise as a soft whisper in the night than as a blackened and rotting hag clawing at the door-handle-- doubtless she didn't have any choice, but it comes across as gore for gore's sake. Which sums up a lot of the film, really; as you say, style over substance.)
Even Thomas's 'negative' ghost is singularly unattractive compared to his normal presence :-p (I noticed that the novelization tries to gloss this by saying that the uncanny yellow eyes are the glow of golden sunlight and happiness shining through him, but it's just... weird.)
Unless I completely misunderstood the cylinder recordings, I thought there was supposed to be one for each wife, like the envelopes of evidence that Edith found (presumably carefully compiled by Enola in secret-- Edith isn't the first amateur detective in that house!) It would make more sense if it was just Enola testing out her new recording device on Thomas, but I thought the woman who gives her name in the first cylinder Edith plays was one of the others...
But apparently, as in the case of "Love Never Dies", a severely flawed canon appeals to me.
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Even more of a coincidence is that I very nearly included your headcanons about the de Chagny family as secret supporters of the Comte de Chambord in yesterday's 'collected Raoul' post -- but I left it out on the grounds that it wasn't my headcanon, however much it appealed to me, and that you weren't writing it any more :-(
(Can I invite you to the severely underpopulated
I lost all access to Tumblr a year or so ago when they put in a new verification screen that my browser can't navigate past; it's a pain because there are a couple of useful reference pages that I had linked to. I keep meaning to try to cut and paste the content via an emulator, but have never got round to it.
I gather from the recent
The incest element certainly wasn't obvious in advance to me -- it's entirely normal for someone like Lucille to be incredibly possessive and controlling of her family without actually descending into lust. But as I said, I assumed that the supernatural element was much greater than it proved to be -- one of the criticisms I found in a contemporary review was that the ghosts don't really serve any purpose in the plot. Edith makes her own discoveries and fights her own struggle, and the story could have been written very much the same without any floaty apparitions at all -- they're only there for scares. (And in fact they're undermining their own cause, as it were, by being so hideous: all the ghosts in the plot are actually helpful and well-intentioned, yet they're all horrifying enough to scare their target out of her wits. If Edith's mother wanted to warn her, she would have done better to materialise as a soft whisper in the night than as a blackened and rotting hag clawing at the door-handle-- doubtless she didn't have any choice, but it comes across as gore for gore's sake. Which sums up a lot of the film, really; as you say, style over substance.)
Even Thomas's 'negative' ghost is singularly unattractive compared to his normal presence :-p
(I noticed that the novelization tries to gloss this by saying that the uncanny yellow eyes are the glow of golden sunlight and happiness shining through him, but it's just... weird.)
Unless I completely misunderstood the cylinder recordings, I thought there was supposed to be one for each wife, like the envelopes of evidence that Edith found (presumably carefully compiled by Enola in secret-- Edith isn't the first amateur detective in that house!)
It would make more sense if it was just Enola testing out her new recording device on Thomas, but I thought the woman who gives her name in the first cylinder Edith plays was one of the others...
But apparently, as in the case of "Love Never Dies", a severely flawed canon appeals to me.