I seem to have acquired a fondness for Lady and the Tramp just by writing for the characters

(well, in specific, Tramp really)

I watched the whole thing again last month. I thought it to be kind of dull and tedious. Well-made, but dull and tedious. Tramp is by design the only character in the whole thing with any real verve, but the pacing feels a bit too slow (and related to that, the part in the dog pound with all the whining and crying goes on WAY too long).

But I decided that Lady and Tramp should hang out with Pongo and Perdita and by the gods is that fucking fun to write.

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  • also they fight robots

    please tell me they fight robots
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    There's robots in my 101 Dalmatians: The Series episodes, but they're not fought. The characters do fight incorporeal beings and visit the underworld though. (Not Lady and Tramp themselves, they do however blow up Cruella's car)
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Maybe they should fight one of the robots though
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    That's pretty normal, I think. I didn't care much for The Great and Powerful Trixie until I wrote her into one of my stories as a lark.

    Writing a character as more than a flat stereotype requires you to get inside their head to really understand why they act like they do. And it's much easier to sympathize with them once you've done that.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Returning to domestic life, in my mind, didn't change Tramp much - he still acts like a free spirit, he still speaks fondly of life as a stray (if you remember, he was abandoned/ran away from his old home after his masters had a baby), he still calls Lady "pidge"...

    I know that's probably lazy writing

    Lady has changed though - by remarkable coincidence, Lady and Tramp's family moved from their old home (a nameless town which was based on Walt Disney's hometown of Marceline, Missouri - so I decided that the town IS Marceline - to Gruteley) and Lady seems to like the South much, much less than Tramp does
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