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“Your writing style is terrible.” - Bluebell, Official Webboard

Jonathan Capps / 26.03.06 / 12:45 pm

Let's think about this for one moment...

Look at this extract from the original version of Better Than Life:

CAT: We’re having a really nice time. I’m dating Marilyn Monroe and also I have another girlfriend who’s a mermaid. She’s half woman, half fish. (He starts licking and kissing a photograph then turns round.) It’s Miranda, my girlfriend!

As she comes out of the water we see the top half of her is a fish, the bottom half is a woman.

HOLLY: Somehow I’d imagined she’d be a woman on top and a fish on the bottom.

CAT: No! That’s a stupid way round. (He sticks out his tongue briefly and grins and waves).

So. We’ve established that the Cat’s perfect girlfriend is a Mermaid. A Mermaid with an opposite, and less conventional, configuration to most. But why? Well, there’s a few options:

This is all fair enough, I suppose, and nothing to be ashamed of. Apart form perhaps the thought of having sex with a fish head on legs. But there’s also some more macabre (and sadly, more likely) reasons for his peculiar taste in women…

I think we can safely assume that the Cat’s brief tongue flick in the scene suggests that the first (more savory) option isn’t the case. The licking of the photograph only serves to prove this point further. So I am led to the opinion that the cat only wanted Miranda for one of the last three points. And this scene was classified as PG. Will somebody please think of the children!

Anyhow, I am now scared of Grant Naylor for writing that scene. I am even more scared with myself for writing this post. I think I better go and have a bath.

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