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Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, a lot of live action follows the characters' moods, so you can switch to a tight 3rd without changing the tone.

My point is that JS&MN, specifically, is not like this. It's a comedy of manners with wizards. For large parts of canon we're not meant to be feeling what the characters are feeling, we're meant to be a detached observer quietly laughing at their foibles. The miniseries changes some things, but not this; it basically mirrors the tone of the omniscient 3rd narration in the novel.

To capture that in a fic you'd either have to adopt 3rd omniscient yourself, in which case you can't write in OP's preferred fanficcy tight 3rd, or pick the POV of someone like Childermass who himself spends much of the story as a detached observer quietly laughing at the main characters' foibles.

(I've never thought about it before, but I wonder if that partially explains his popularity, along with Enzo Cilenti's unexpected hotness. People really dislike writing 3rd omniscient, and using Childermass is one of few ways to preserve the arch tone of canon in fic form if you're unwilling to do that.)