Lost Girl Exercises 112-114 Notes

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 - time period: lost girl seems to be set in modern day but Peter Pan itself seems to be timeless but also looks old fashioned 

- the show is set in Wendy's childhood bedroom, which in Peter Pan looks as if it's from the Victorian Error 

- there are references to modern day things in Lost Girl though, I'd like to interpret the play as modern day with aspects of the timelessness and magic that is in Peter Pan 

- Because Wendy is in her own little world she seems completely removed from everything else that is happening in the world around her, literally everything outside of her bedroom

- the show also seems to be modern day because of the separation of the real world that the play takes place in: there are detectives who are trying to solve the kidnapping case and her story is out to the world, which seems like more modern day media coverage 

- she is living in reality but her head is stuck in memories of Neverland, so she is not present, therefor the time period seems somewhat irrelevant 

- my character's past is almost entirely centered on her trip to Neverland and the aftermath of her experience and her return -- the show constantly cuts back and forth from her memory and the present and shows conversations in Neverland, conversations with her doctor and therapist and a detective, etc.

- her past is very much intertwined with her present because in order to move on from her past she needs closure, or at least she says she does but by the end of the show she seems to have come to some of her own self acceptance 

- the characters first memory would probably be of her telling her brothers a story -- in Peter Pan she is the responsible mother figure who is still full of life, she enjoys telling stories and loves those around her, she is not dependent on everyone else to cover her and distract her and all the things that she needs in the present day 

- she is no longer any of those things because of her deep sadness and the fact that her return seemed to wrench her childhood away from her 

- just like how Wendy constantly has flashbacks throughout the show, she likely thinks about the person she used to be all the way back to her first memory, this is why she is always in her head, never in the present 

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