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The return of Winnie the Pooh: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8283255.stm

There is a new character (Lottie the Otter), Eeyore allegedly has a girlfriend, and Christopher Robin has returned.

I'm not sure if I should be happy or outraged by this. The whole point of the end of the House at Pooh Corner was that Christopher Robin was growing up and going to school so he wouldn't be able to play with his furry friends as much anymore but it would be ok because he (and us the readers) would still be able to visit them (and our childhood) whenever we wanted thus giving the adult us the chance to relive our happy childhood days whenever grown up life was too much.

What does it mean that C.R. has returned? Has he had some sort of horrific accident leaving him with the mind of a three year old? Does this mean that we all can revert to the mindset of a child after an extended period of time? Is this a satire on societies reactions to those with senile dementia? Am I reading too much into this?

What? Eeyore is clinically depressed with suicidal tendencies (should really be sectioned for evaluation). That's hardly conducive to getting a girlfriend.

Save your frustrations for the end of the book.
Lottie, It turns out, is not an otter as first suspected, but a chavy transvestite weesle .

note the limpness of the writs, the spring in her step, and the bling.
Why, she's even painted in Burbury colours.




( actually, since all the characters are supposed to be C.R's toys, one has to ask why he would have a female otter .)

Tomo wrote:What? Eeyore is clinically depressed with suicidal tendencies (should really be sectioned for evaluation). That's hardly conducive to getting a girlfriend.

Maybe word has got around, that he's like a donkey.

daleshrimpton wrote:( actually, since all the characters are supposed to be C.R's toys, one has to ask why he would have a female otter .)

She's there to add spice, she's supposed to be like Jessica Rabbit ......


......only a little 'otter.



Sorry, couldn't resist

I'll get my coat....


Taxi!

daleshrimpton wrote:

Tomo wrote:What? Eeyore is clinically depressed with suicidal tendencies (should really be sectioned for evaluation). That's hardly conducive to getting a girlfriend.

Maybe word has got around, that he's like a donkey.

What, depressed. Oh, the ears. Right. Got it (he said innocently).

Think about it. Pooh is a classic introvert with obsessive tendencies (like getting stuck in Rabbit's Howse after eating all the hunny). Rabbit is a classic passive/aggressive socipath. Kanger and Roo are a single parent family. Tigger has a deep-rooted narcissistic complex. Piglet has manic disorder, Eeyore is clinically depressed, Owl is a "confirmed bachelor". The Hundred Acre Wood is a slice of life.

There's a lovely story Douglas Adams used to tell about proudly presenting his mother with the character of Marvin the Paranoid Android, only for her to say "oh, he's eeyore, isn't he?"

Tomo wrote:

daleshrimpton wrote:

Tomo wrote:What? Eeyore is clinically depressed with suicidal tendencies (should really be sectioned for evaluation). That's hardly conducive to getting a girlfriend.

Maybe word has got around, that he's like a donkey.

What, depressed. Oh, the ears. Right. Got it (he said innocently).

Think about it. Pooh is a classic introvert with obsessive tendencies (like getting stuck in Rabbit's Howse after eating all the hunny). Rabbit is a classic passive/aggressive socipath. Kanger and Roo are a single parent family. Tigger has a deep-rooted narcissistic complex. Piglet has manic disorder, Eeyore is clinically depressed, Owl is a "confirmed bachelor". The Hundred Acre Wood is a slice of life.

So is Christopher Robin supposed to be their social worker then? The fact that he abandoned them just demonstrates that we are living in Broken Britain! (copyright Daily Mail).

No. The greatest evil of our time is that some people can eat what they like and not put on any weight. I'm not bitter.

A J Irving wrote:So is Christopher Robin supposed to be their social worker then? The fact that he abandoned them just demonstrates that we are living in Broken Britain! (copyright Daily Mail).

He represents the home alone latchkey kids whose parents the Daily Mail hate with special viciousness. I think he goes off to New York to become a male model in the end, doesn't he? Messed up on junk to keep his weight down and eventually just to get through the day when his looks go, he gets out of rehab and returns to the only place he's genuinely felt loved only to discover that his friends have moved on and he's been usurped by a female otter. It ends in a murder suicide.

Tomo wrote:

A J Irving wrote:So is Christopher Robin supposed to be their social worker then? The fact that he abandoned them just demonstrates that we are living in Broken Britain! (copyright Daily Mail).

He represents the home alone latchkey kids whose parents the Daily Mail hate with special viciousness. I think he goes off to New York to become a male model in the end, doesn't he? Messed up on junk to keep his weight down and eventually just to get through the day when his looks go, he gets out of rehab and returns to the only place he's genuinely felt loved only to discover that his friends have moved on and he's been usurped by a female otter. It ends in a murder suicide.

That actually sounds like a pretty good story. Will there be any lesbians in it and when exactly will you be publishing it?

A J Irving wrote:That actually sounds like a pretty good story. Will there be any lesbians in it and when exactly will you be publishing it?

I'm not sure the world is ready for the sight of Christopher Robin jacking up in a bedsit yet.

Tomo wrote:

A J Irving wrote:That actually sounds like a pretty good story. Will there be any lesbians in it and when exactly will you be publishing it?

I'm not sure the world is ready for the sight of Christopher Robin jacking up in a bedsit yet.

And another great idea dies because society can't handle reality.

Sorry, but the greatest evil of the Hundred Acre Wood happened when Disney took on the rights to the Pooh franchise.

So there are now generations of kids that associate Winnie the Pooh with Hollywood's soulless, charmless tat.

Quite recently, Disney studios did away with Christopher Robin altogether, and replaced him with a nauseating tomboy called Darby.

I don't hold out much hope for the new book, as I don't believe that Milne's style, charm and outright genius can be replicated. I'll be happy to be proven wrong though.

Pete

Tomo wrote:

A J Irving wrote:That actually sounds like a pretty good story. Will there be any lesbians in it and when exactly will you be publishing it?

I'm not sure the world is ready for the sight of Christopher Robin jacking up in a bedsit yet.

Damn my dyslexia.

Untill i re-read this post, i had an ENTIRLY different picture of what Christopher Robin was doing to himself in a bedsit, running through my head.