Post by Lauryn on Dec 1, 2005 1:10:23 GMT -5
Ace, I suspect your timetable and mine would be similar on the marriage issue. I agree that the foundation simply wasn't there for much of the series, but it would have been undeniably fascinating to see Steele and Laura grappling with the dynamics, power issues, etc. of a real relationship, sex included. It wouldn't matter much to me whether they were married or not except that marriage can have certain subsets of problems that merely co-habiting relationships don't, which might make things even livelier. But hey, we'd all have just been glad for some forward momentum, no matter what the legalities. It was like watching two continents drift, LOL!
Call it fate, call it rotten luck, but it's funny how PB got roped into two series (Steele and Bond) where the producers ultimately lost the nerve or the wherewithal to be true / take risks with the character(s) and the role(s) arrived at an impasse or fell in a rut. I remember after PB lost the Bond role in 86 and the People Magazine article came out they quoted him saying something about Steele getting caught up in "all that old movie rubbish," indicating that he wanted to move things forward but they wanted to "keep it like it was." So maybe Gleason was still shopping around that tired old 40's chestnut in the fourth season.
Didn't you once suggest to me, in your tongue-in-cheek way (or were you deadly serious, LOL!) that someone should write a story where Steele, after a serious bust-up with Laura, goes on a bender and starts engaging in all the behaviors that she's long denied him: shagging every woman in sight, spending all day at the racetrack and inexplicably waking up in a gym locker, cooking up all kinds of fly-by-night chicanery with his shady pals -- stuff that would make Faust's bargain for twenty-four years of voluptuousness seem like a stroll through Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. The post-Cannes period would be the perfect timeframe. Maybe this could be your fanfic debut, LOL! C'mon, it'll be fun!
Call it fate, call it rotten luck, but it's funny how PB got roped into two series (Steele and Bond) where the producers ultimately lost the nerve or the wherewithal to be true / take risks with the character(s) and the role(s) arrived at an impasse or fell in a rut. I remember after PB lost the Bond role in 86 and the People Magazine article came out they quoted him saying something about Steele getting caught up in "all that old movie rubbish," indicating that he wanted to move things forward but they wanted to "keep it like it was." So maybe Gleason was still shopping around that tired old 40's chestnut in the fourth season.
Didn't you once suggest to me, in your tongue-in-cheek way (or were you deadly serious, LOL!) that someone should write a story where Steele, after a serious bust-up with Laura, goes on a bender and starts engaging in all the behaviors that she's long denied him: shagging every woman in sight, spending all day at the racetrack and inexplicably waking up in a gym locker, cooking up all kinds of fly-by-night chicanery with his shady pals -- stuff that would make Faust's bargain for twenty-four years of voluptuousness seem like a stroll through Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. The post-Cannes period would be the perfect timeframe. Maybe this could be your fanfic debut, LOL! C'mon, it'll be fun!