Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Oct. 18th, 2006 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackHey, when you first saw "Wolves of Willoughby Chase", did you realise it was alternate history? I didn't really think about it then, and then never thought about it again until I looked up the book now.
I guess I was fairly young, used to children's books that play with reality fairly freely, and wouldn't actually have noticed if any country was explicitly mentioned in the dialogue or known if there were any places that populated with that many wolves and those fashions.
I also noticed:
Bonnie looks and acts incredibly like Ron Weasly in the films.
If you google for something and are filtering for any likely hits, do not follow anything to myspace. "Pictures of naked elves" don't kill eyes, "pictures of naked elves on black background as non-scrolling background to a page with dark text, too-wide-fixed-width, content and status information put into random boxes, many unconnected pictures, video, ungrammatical text, banner ads, ascii art in a proportional font[1], and automatic music" kill eyes. OTOH, before I sound too negative, some of the image manipulations were nice, the conversation was as nice and as coherent as most people I know[2], and:
It did link me to another stick-figure webcomic, Cyanide and Happiness, which is a little basic, but seems to have a spark. A man and a woman are sitting on a bench. W:Sometimes I just feel like you never notice me. / W:Charles... I think we should break up. / M:WHAT THE HELL? / M:...Benches aren't supposed to talk?!
Also, I hadn't seen before on Amazon.com entries, Statistically Improbable Phrases are the most distinctive phrases in the text of books. Cool.
[1] That shouldn't be. Though come to think of it, ascii art designed for a (specific) proportional font could be kind of cool.
I guess I was fairly young, used to children's books that play with reality fairly freely, and wouldn't actually have noticed if any country was explicitly mentioned in the dialogue or known if there were any places that populated with that many wolves and those fashions.
I also noticed:
Bonnie looks and acts incredibly like Ron Weasly in the films.
If you google for something and are filtering for any likely hits, do not follow anything to myspace. "Pictures of naked elves" don't kill eyes, "pictures of naked elves on black background as non-scrolling background to a page with dark text, too-wide-fixed-width, content and status information put into random boxes, many unconnected pictures, video, ungrammatical text, banner ads, ascii art in a proportional font[1], and automatic music" kill eyes. OTOH, before I sound too negative, some of the image manipulations were nice, the conversation was as nice and as coherent as most people I know[2], and:
It did link me to another stick-figure webcomic, Cyanide and Happiness, which is a little basic, but seems to have a spark. A man and a woman are sitting on a bench. W:Sometimes I just feel like you never notice me. / W:Charles... I think we should break up. / M:WHAT THE HELL? / M:...Benches aren't supposed to talk?!
Also, I hadn't seen before on Amazon.com entries, Statistically Improbable Phrases are the most distinctive phrases in the text of books. Cool.
[1] That shouldn't be. Though come to think of it, ascii art designed for a (specific) proportional font could be kind of cool.
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Date: 2006-10-18 11:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-23 11:00 am (UTC)Also, is Wolves of Willoughby Chase worth watching? I read some of the Joan Aiken books but I didn't realise it was ever dramatised.
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Date: 2006-10-23 04:12 pm (UTC)is Wolves of Willoughby Chase worth watching?
Ooh, I don't know. It was a great kids film, but I'm not sure if it'd hold my attention now or not. Probably not worth looking out but worth seeing if it's on.
It feels like a good adaption of a book, but that's always very hard to tell without having read it: if you want to see a good filming of a childhood book it's probably a good risk :)