They all seem to turn into the same story, though: someone is accused of a crime they didn't commit (or a family member is and it turns out the same way), they're sold as a slave, our protagonist buys them, after some initial token resistance they discover they like being this person's slave in this universe with its mock-Roman slavery thing going on (not to mention threats of castration etc) and fall in wuv, twue wuv with their owner.
I guess I'm just not as fond as all that of culturally-enforced power differentials. It's a bit too much like those 'he raped me but it's okay because he wuvs me!' stories, I suppose.
The only one I've read which has bucked the trend is an entertaining Nero Wolfe story set in Roman times which is somewhat more historically accurate, so I guess that helps immensely and feel free to write one that actually works for that period! :)
And 'cod' also has the meaning of 'to fool or hoax', hence 'cod-piece'. ;)
LOL! A retread indeed. I am more interested in how pervasive the idea of slavery is within the society. I tend to spend more time working out the back story details of an idea than actually writing anything, but I was thinking of an Old West M7 Romanology. Partly because of the fact that slavery is tied to that period, and it would completely change if Rome was still the authority. What would Nathan's character be, if the Western frontier was formed under Roman rules and slavery had never been abolished? Would the civil war still be about state's rights, if not slavery? Would Ezra's occupation be more respectable? Would Josiah have a pagan temple to rebuild, rather than a church? What type of temples are built at far flung outposts of the Roman Empire? And okay, I'll admit it, I am titilatted by the idea that Vin would be sold into slavery after being framed for murder; more fun than being 'wanted' and of course leaves room for sex-capades. LOL!
Ah! Thanks for the definition. Somehow I had this idea that 'cod' was Olde Englishe for 'crotch.'
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Date: 2005-10-07 05:36 pm (UTC)I'm twelve.
Yes, I think they did really well with the historical bits. Makes me want to write a Romanology fic.
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Date: 2005-10-07 05:43 pm (UTC)Well, I wouldn't go that far. How many times can you re-tread the exact same story with cod-historicity anyway? ;)
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Date: 2005-10-08 01:16 am (UTC)BTW - "cod-historicity"? Is that "cod" as in "codpiece"?
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Date: 2005-10-08 08:55 am (UTC)I guess I'm just not as fond as all that of culturally-enforced power differentials. It's a bit too much like those 'he raped me but it's okay because he wuvs me!' stories, I suppose.
The only one I've read which has bucked the trend is an entertaining Nero Wolfe story set in Roman times which is somewhat more historically accurate, so I guess that helps immensely and feel free to write one that actually works for that period! :)
And 'cod' also has the meaning of 'to fool or hoax', hence 'cod-piece'. ;)
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Date: 2005-10-08 02:30 pm (UTC)Ah! Thanks for the definition. Somehow I had this idea that 'cod' was Olde Englishe for 'crotch.'
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Date: 2005-10-10 10:06 pm (UTC)Not that Ezra and his Scary Sideburns of Doom has much to boast about at the start of the show either.