I was wondering why the daftness of Thuggery isn't as annoying as the daftness of this plot. And then I ended up thinking that Thuggery is like Miranda's view of the Nativity story - all so impossibly unlikely that maybe it just is believable. Certainly it works in the context of the story if you can just give your disbelief a bit of suspension! But this is just a big old mess. Maybe drug smuggling pigeons are so nonsensical that I can just go with the flow, but kidnapped babies, struggling mothers and runaway children are just too real to be dealt with as a jolly holiday adventure for those plucky Marlow children. It seems to me that AF wanted to write her sea voyage so Judith and Felix's back story had to be made to fit even though it's then so full of holes that returning Edward is no longer the heroic, right thing to do that it's presented as being.
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A Miranda moment.
Date: 2015-03-16 04:50 pm (UTC)But this is just a big old mess. Maybe drug smuggling pigeons are so nonsensical that I can just go with the flow, but kidnapped babies, struggling mothers and runaway children are just too real to be dealt with as a jolly holiday adventure for those plucky Marlow children.
It seems to me that AF wanted to write her sea voyage so Judith and Felix's back story had to be made to fit even though it's then so full of holes that returning Edward is no longer the heroic, right thing to do that it's presented as being.