rickee wrote:KK: Slightly less than 9 months to read all of them, but then I have digital copies on my phone so I could read whenever and wherever I was. Some of the stories are so engaging that my wife started buying me pills for IBS as I was spending far to long in the Loo finishing chapters.
Algy was quite young when he had a girlfriend
On the sexy note (as people seem to get a bit hung up on it), Ginger and Algy are really the only actively sexual characters, In "Biggles looks back" it's made clear that Marie had such an impact on Biggles that he buried his heart in his work and seemed determined never to allow himself to be distracted by any kind of vice again. Bertie is accused of being scared by women, but the circumstances are not normal: he was supposed to be staking out a bar when the lady unexpectedly plonks herself down in his lap. Biggles explanation is more for her benefit that it is the truth, I feel. There is more than a little of Jeeves and Wooster in how Bertie is portrayed (though I can't imagine Wooster being as stone cold when bullets start flying about) so it's probable that no subtext was intended.... being Camp was not necessarily linked with being Gay until relatively recently. Getting back to the relevant subject you could have Ginger and Algy having contrasting romantic subplots: Algy more experienced and in control while in contrast Ginger approaches things with more nerves and shyness. Heck maybe have them both attached to the same women for another way to lighten the mood before reinforcing that they're in such a close knit team that even this can't get in the way of friendship and loyalty especially when confronted with the realities of war flying.
Fairblue wrote:I'm not all that keen on flashback scenes. I don't think I'd like to see an old Biggles.
Tommy Smith wrote:That leaves Ginger as the angsty teenager to lead it in both directions in his debut.
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