Peter Pan and Never Never Land

[Bob Schroeck]

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and b) you have the adults who are essentially parodies of everything that is evil (from a child's POV) of adults.

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But not universally -- the Red Indians of Neverland have many adults, and all are good folk, allied (or at least friendly) to the Lost Boys.

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Doug is an adult - who has retained much of his childishness. He's anathema to both groups. I just don't see that making for a good story.

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Hm. Actually, quite the contrary -- there's the core conflict. If Doug could just stroll in and say, "Hey, Pete, send me home" and get "sure, no prob" in response, there's no story. Now, Doug working to get accepted by the Lost Boys (who automatically distrust him and try to drive him away), fighting off Hook's press gangs, and generally becoming a third side in the Neverland war (the mermaids and the Indians apparently don't get involved) -- there's some story potential there.

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(As a side note, Doug is an almost textbook case of Post-Modern Post-Adolescent Disorder - but then, so am I.

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I'm going to have to look that one up. Sounds interesting.


-- Bob
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And all the girlies say I'm pretty dry for a wet guy...