Posted by PeterH on September 21, 2006 at 19:57:59 from 86.130.139.220 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Port and Starboard (Was Girls who dare (was Hot Water) posted by Laurence Monkhouse on September 21, 2006 at 11:22:13:
Laurence - I think you're taking what I said about Port and Starboard a little too seriously. No one has ever said their McGinty impersonations are 'offensive' or anything like that, but I personally find them a bit irritating - 'The puir wee doggie' said Port' etc. I think the problem with P and S is that we know so little about them, other than they are Nell and Bess, Mr Farland's daughters. I keep subconsciously imposing a 'Nancy and Peggy' framework on them, and I seem to detect that Starboard is the more assertive twin, but I can't get much else. I find myself 'not caring' about them, which is always a bad sign. I don't feel any affection for them, which I do feel for all the other characters, even George Owdon. AR doesn't give us much in the way of character traits for P and S, whereas I feel I know Nancy after the first page she appears in. Does anyone else feel this way about P and S? I am prepared to admit that I have misjudged them.