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fairydust-stuff · 2 days ago

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I wish more adaptations/ retellings would play with the darkness already there. East of Kensington did a fantastic job. Michels line still chills me " You're selfish, you've always been selfish."

you don't need to write a dark deconstruction of Peter Pan where he's willing to kill people and his state of eternal childhood makes him morally ambiguous, JM Barrie already wrote one and it's called Peter Pan

#been criticising (and by criticising i mean laughing at) the Vicious Lost Boys series in the discord #aka Never King... Dark One.. etc etc #and it makes me think #does no one... actually realise how dark the story of peter pan is without chopping everything up #for wendy: youre on a foreign land where danger lurks around every corner and you never know if whoever you meet is friend or foe.#for peter: you have no grasp on morals or human mainland laws: killing friends is fun! but it's lonely afterwards. you make enemies without #-a care because your momentary happiness is whats most important... but it can be sad and frightening and most of all lonely sometimes #for hook: you are a captain to your people and yet you cant even protect them or yourself from a boy who doesnt see his actions' consequenc #-you must kill the child because he could kill you or your crew without realising what hes doing is permanent.. plus theres the croc too..#for the lost boys and pirates: your leader is hell bent on goals and specifically killing his arch nemesis. you don't know what mood he's i #-how can you be sure you or he is safe #and theres so much more too #peter pan is dark #its already dark #you dont need to make it dark #peter pan

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