Dream casting

Even though I now basically never have time to watch TV -- or go to the movies (not that many appeal to me these days), there are still series that I would love to see turned into movies. On the adaptation front, Hollywood need to atone for the atrocious Avengers it did a few years back (Uma Thurman as Mrs Peel? No way.) I also would love to see cartoons other than trash like GI Joe or the hideous Transformers turned into live action. And before you say, "but Transformers gave us Megan Fox!" I'll just add La Fox to the list requiring atonement. (Sorry, but I find her unbearable -- even more unbearale than Jessica Alba, and that says a lot.)

Anyway, I was originally going to post my own dream casts for a few live action movies that will probably never get made, but it would take me forever to do. So I am making a virtue of my laziness and lack of time by opening it up to all: How would you cast:

Kim Possible -- Kim and Dr Mom Possible?

Josie and the Pussycats -- Josie, Valerie, and Melody?

Totally Spies -- Clover, Alex, and Sam (and Brittany if you're industrious)

What is it about rope?

In most of my RPs and stories, no matter what the circumstances or heroine, I usually end up tyign the damsel up with rope, or something like it. Even superheroines, for whom chains or something less flimsy than rope might be called for, I usually deprive of their powers or else invent some form of rope that is stronger than their powers. In other words, I am a bit of a rope snob. Don't get me wrong -- handcuffs work, and on occasion chains are fun, but I tend to prefer ropes.

There has to be something aesthetically preferable about it. It's not like rope is more effective -- it's easier to escape from ropes than, say, handcuffs, assuming they aren't a size too big. Or maybe it's more that I like the bonds to really fit the form of the damsel -- tape is a runner up to rope. Ribbons and the like also do the trick.

Maybe chains just don't hug the damsel's limbs enough. I don't know. All I know is -- I am a rope snob....

Architecture

Sorry I haven't been around too much on this blog. Part of it is RL busy-ness, part of it is that, at a result, I often don't have too much new to say. I don't feel like I should just periodically signal hey, I'm alive, just for the sake of it. Anyone who really wants to know can just email me to find that, yes, I am still here, etc.

Anyway, now that the holidays are over I have a little more time to be in a peril mood, and I was struck in one particular daydream of how much an influence the actual architecture of the locale in which (indoor) perils has on me.

The actual thought process was: I really like the look of heroines tied up around poles, and I really like them reclining at an angle, but it's really kind of hard to imagine how you could combine those two likes in one situation. Then the idea struck me of the heroine being captured in some sort of contemporary architecture with exposed slanting rafters extending to the floor, and tied to one of them.

I really like moody spaces as locales to distress damsels, but they do not at all have to be old or particularly gothic to fill the bill. They should be distinctive, and menacing in context. The damsel doesn't have to always be in a dark cellar, although that is fine of course. Some of the curvy, swooping public architecture of the last decade (some of which I think is built just to show that it can be) also serves as locales from which a tied up heroine might slide down to her doom. The absurd escalators and tubes of Roissy (CDG Airport) seems to me to have been designed by someone who should have spent his time designing damsel traps. But that's just me...

Just occurred to me that my love of railroad track perils also has this in it -- the repetitive look fo the rails and the cross ties -- much like the stud and joist of a building.....