Oooh yeah Angus and whatsisname! I can just picture Will as the quiet one of the three. Will's Greenwitch summer boredom also comes to mind. He really is so laidback and naturally friendly. He likes to make connections.
Yeah-the other thing I noticed on this re-read is how often Will gets dumped or ditched and doesn't care. It's just kind of funny. In Greenwitch his friends are off somewhere again and so are Mary and James, and he's bored, but not lonely. He's not worried about being sent off to Wales on his own. Then there are these two moments where he's literally ditched by the other characters-in Greenwitch Simon and Barney ditch him and there's that wonderful moment where Jane tries to apologize and ends up feeling foolish because Will doesn't seem to care at all. Of course that's part of Will's whole, "I'm an immortal superbeing so I'll get over it," but it also seems part of his personality. Because in Grey King there's the time after Cafall dies and he sees Bran and tries to go to him but Bran starts walking away. Will just thinks that a zig-zagging chase across the hills (when he can't walk very well anyway, being a convalescent) is pointless. Again it's business, but Will's also a boy. I don't think that's what he'd have thought even if he was a regular boy.
And it's also funny, because Will's so incredibly inoffensive...yet in a way those are the kids who often get ditched. Only he's too cool to really *be* ditched, because he doesn't care. So before people know it they've accepted him.
The change is amazing by the time they hit Greenwitch. Will's very much like a professional colleague, and Merriman treats him as such. And then they do that thing that made me (and Jane) shriek. *g*
LOL! Jumping off the cliff? I get so annoyed when Captain Toms makes them forget it! I mean yeah, it was scary at the time, but the Drews already started to figure out they're not human. If I were a kid I'd think it was the coolest thing ever once I got over the shock! It's one of the few showy things they do!
That reminds me. One of the weirdest off-screen things is Merriman's meeting with Bran. And Bran believes him more than anything else he's ever heard? That must have been incredible. I mean, he's Arthur's son, to Merriman.
Isn't it, though? And it makes sense in some ways, but it's hard to imagine it. To go back to the Will thing from above, it's interesting how Bran too is separate but too cool to really be an outcast. Just in a different way. Like, when he meets Will he's not *that* difficult-not socially inept. He's got that arrogant streak and I think he tests Will a little, but he's not completely belligerant. Was that just because of Merriman? Did he think Will would be a friend, since after all Merriman explained that he wasn't "properly human?" I'd love to get some of Bran's views on exactly what he thought of Will, because we know there's times when he feels like Will can't really be a friend because of what he is. But you wonder how he thought of him once he knew his own story, and how he'd think of him after he'd forgotten it all. We do get Bran's pov sometimes in GK, but not with regards to this.
Didn't occur to me until you put it that way. Sounds rather Maker-ish, doesn't it? I'd been looking for that connection for ages.
It's interesting how the boys (especially Bran and Will but also Barney) are so naturally artistically inclined. Barney's sort of embarassed about painting, but Will's more natural with his singing (and even if his voice won't be as technically nice as James' tenor, it's not always technical perfection that makes someone a great singer--no doubt Will will always be one!), learning to make things-his use of Shakespeare is so much more natural than Simon's awkward attempts to drop Dickens into conversation, etc. And Bran is just as natural with his harp. It makes them seem more out of a different time, I think, when people did this stuff more every day.
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Date: 2004-06-16 09:29 pm (UTC)Yeah-the other thing I noticed on this re-read is how often Will gets dumped or ditched and doesn't care. It's just kind of funny. In Greenwitch his friends are off somewhere again and so are Mary and James, and he's bored, but not lonely. He's not worried about being sent off to Wales on his own. Then there are these two moments where he's literally ditched by the other characters-in Greenwitch Simon and Barney ditch him and there's that wonderful moment where Jane tries to apologize and ends up feeling foolish because Will doesn't seem to care at all. Of course that's part of Will's whole, "I'm an immortal superbeing so I'll get over it," but it also seems part of his personality. Because in Grey King there's the time after Cafall dies and he sees Bran and tries to go to him but Bran starts walking away. Will just thinks that a zig-zagging chase across the hills (when he can't walk very well anyway, being a convalescent) is pointless. Again it's business, but Will's also a boy. I don't think that's what he'd have thought even if he was a regular boy.
And it's also funny, because Will's so incredibly inoffensive...yet in a way those are the kids who often get ditched. Only he's too cool to really *be* ditched, because he doesn't care. So before people know it they've accepted him.
The change is amazing by the time they hit Greenwitch. Will's very much like a professional colleague, and Merriman treats him as such. And then they do that thing that made me (and Jane) shriek. *g*
LOL! Jumping off the cliff? I get so annoyed when Captain Toms makes them forget it! I mean yeah, it was scary at the time, but the Drews already started to figure out they're not human. If I were a kid I'd think it was the coolest thing ever once I got over the shock! It's one of the few showy things they do!
That reminds me. One of the weirdest off-screen things is Merriman's meeting with Bran. And Bran believes him more than anything else he's ever heard? That must have been incredible. I mean, he's Arthur's son, to Merriman.
Isn't it, though? And it makes sense in some ways, but it's hard to imagine it. To go back to the Will thing from above, it's interesting how Bran too is separate but too cool to really be an outcast. Just in a different way. Like, when he meets Will he's not *that* difficult-not socially inept. He's got that arrogant streak and I think he tests Will a little, but he's not completely belligerant. Was that just because of Merriman? Did he think Will would be a friend, since after all Merriman explained that he wasn't "properly human?" I'd love to get some of Bran's views on exactly what he thought of Will, because we know there's times when he feels like Will can't really be a friend because of what he is. But you wonder how he thought of him once he knew his own story, and how he'd think of him after he'd forgotten it all. We do get Bran's pov sometimes in GK, but not with regards to this.
Didn't occur to me until you put it that way. Sounds rather Maker-ish, doesn't it? I'd been looking for that connection for ages.
It's interesting how the boys (especially Bran and Will but also Barney) are so naturally artistically inclined. Barney's sort of embarassed about painting, but Will's more natural with his singing (and even if his voice won't be as technically nice as James' tenor, it's not always technical perfection that makes someone a great singer--no doubt Will will always be one!), learning to make things-his use of Shakespeare is so much more natural than Simon's awkward attempts to drop Dickens into conversation, etc. And Bran is just as natural with his harp. It makes them seem more out of a different time, I think, when people did this stuff more every day.