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More thoughts on the shipwreck
24 February 2018 08:41 pmI think the reason why my subconscious wasn't really happy with the
'San Demetrio' idea was that it makes Raoul look either stupid or incompetent if he just sits there while drifting further and further away from land, into increasingly certain death. As soon as he realises that they are getting further and further away from land, any desperate measures start to look better than just remaining supinely on the ship. They need some kind of hope to keep them hanging on in rational expectation of an imminent improvement in their circumstances — and they need to be seen to be doing something productive towards their escape, not just sitting around hoping for some fluke to rescue them.
So maybe they try to fix the engine, having discovered that trying to jury-rig the ship to sail out of trouble isn't taking them in the direction they want to go?( Read more... )
I think that if Raoul is going to have all these colourful extra adventures, then I'm definitely going to need to separate the timelines and leave him presumed dead for the moment in order to come back to that part of the story later — otherwise the action stuff is going to totally overshadow the timeline in which absolutely nothing is achieved and Christine and Erik respectively both start to go stir-crazy as a result...( Read more... )
'San Demetrio' idea was that it makes Raoul look either stupid or incompetent if he just sits there while drifting further and further away from land, into increasingly certain death. As soon as he realises that they are getting further and further away from land, any desperate measures start to look better than just remaining supinely on the ship. They need some kind of hope to keep them hanging on in rational expectation of an imminent improvement in their circumstances — and they need to be seen to be doing something productive towards their escape, not just sitting around hoping for some fluke to rescue them.
So maybe they try to fix the engine, having discovered that trying to jury-rig the ship to sail out of trouble isn't taking them in the direction they want to go?( Read more... )
I think that if Raoul is going to have all these colourful extra adventures, then I'm definitely going to need to separate the timelines and leave him presumed dead for the moment in order to come back to that part of the story later — otherwise the action stuff is going to totally overshadow the timeline in which absolutely nothing is achieved and Christine and Erik respectively both start to go stir-crazy as a result...( Read more... )