He said what?

[ellarien]

I have finally acquired -- not that I couldn't have done so any time the last several years -- a copy of the Theodore Sturgeon novelization of the 1961 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea movie. Now, I've watched the movie a few times, and I know it's a universe or three over from the TV show, and not in the same direction as most of the fanfic I've seen. Even so, flipping through the book revealed a piece of dialogue that has completely broken my brain by its incompatibility with the characters I'm familiar with. Not in a million years can I see Lee saying that, not even in a severely altered state -- or Harry letting him get away with it, either. I'm not going to post it right now, but no doubt I'll blog the book in due course, and see if I feel the same way about it when I've read the whole thing.

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I boggled a tad at the same points, lo! some thirty odd years ago (when I first read it.)

However, you have to remember that this is a novelisation of the film, not of the TV series. The characterisation is closer to that.

Secondly, it takes one hell of an SF writer to take an Irwin Allen film script about the Van Allen belts igniting and turn it into a philosophical text on solipsism... you have to give him that.

Also worth it for the exchange with the UK phone operator, which I wish had been in the film or TV series somewhere.