#and tommy and lymond (class difference aside) sit in that space
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Started reading Lymond Chronicles after @deadendtracks' comment that SK must've read them too / based Tommy on Lymond....
and like i'm what, at ch3 or 4 maybe and...
yeahhhhhhhhhh XD
#i don't mind what crimes i commit as long as they've got a sensible purpose#johnnie the offsider gypsy#by god i'll give you one night to remember the head of your family by (says the elder brother)#also vaguely robin hood ish / will scarlet etc#i do like the very very different prose (same affection for it that i had for the different prose in the Witcher books)#the purple proseness of description which somehow is still very sparing (no long descriptive paragraphs just 1-2 thick sentences) versus#the intense vernacular used in dialogue. i am mildly over the homogenisation of the 'no style' style in current sf/fan genres#the interesting thing is how Dunnett herself in the a/n says how she was trying to craft a certain persistent masculine trope/character#not her exact words but this undercurrent 'Type' of criminal out there#and tommy and lymond (class difference aside) sit in that space#the other thing i think tho.did SK do it from the beginning or did he start to lean harder into that after seeing CM in S1#I feel certain routes/themes wouldn't have worked with a different kind of actor and later seasons built more and more on CM's strengths#like the descent into S5/S6 imagery and the sheer symbolic/poetic language wouldn't have worked with statham at all...if it ever got there#tim mielants to steven knight while contemplating cm ordinarily drinking his coffee 'he has become the embodiment of my brothergrief'
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