[HPforGrownups] Re: TBAY/SHIP: Comedy on the Big Bang (clarification)

[Gail Bohacek]

No: HPFGUIDX 49161

>The voice of Dicentra speaks. "There have to be more incidents like the 
>Yule
>Ball and Harry's articulate 'wangoballwime?' in the works.  It's
>hilarious, but does comedy really Bang?"
>
>"Yes!" exclaims Pippin.
>
>"Only if there's a lava pit involved!" says Cindy.
>
>"Only if someone messily *dies*!" cries Gail.
>
>"Only if it involves unrequited love!" yells Derannimer, fingering her
>gold key.


"Wait!" Gail says suddenly, apparently flustered, "I mean, er...heck...I 
think you misunderstood me."  Her shoulders sag as she turns to Cindy.  "I 
hate talking to somebody I can't see..."

"I told you she planted a bug somewhere around here," Cindy said, her eyes 
narrowing as she glances up and down the deck of her BIG BANG destroyer.

"Dicentra?  Can you hear me?"  Gail asked.

"Of course," Dicentra's voice booms across the Bay.

"Okay...well, when I spoke earlier about somebody dieing, I didn't have a 
comedy situation in mind...unless by definition you equate SHIPping with 
comedy (like, 'wangoballwime?').  But I really wasn't.  What I had in mind 
was a more serious kind of plotline, where the couple is completely and 
madly in love..."

"You mean you want to turn the series into some mushy romance novel?" Cindy 
interrupted with a look of disgust on her face.

"Gosh no," Gail replied defensively, "Just enough to satisfy the SHIPpers 
out there.  And then after you think that the two are going to live happily 
ever after, OUCH!  One of them is killed...maybe if we're lucky, right in 
front of the other's eyes.  A messy smear that Filch will have to clean up.

"Of course, that kind of plotline is rather predictable and perhaps above 
our JKR, but I do believe that something like this *is* BANG-worthy, don't 
you think?"



-Gail B...who was thinking specifically about the last big scene in Moulin 
Rouge, where Ewan McGregor's character Christian is holding the dieing 
Satine in his arms behind the curtain...gut wrenching sobs, seeing the other 
people's reactions, the torment, the grief
...something cool like that.

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