The cherry chocolate episode is related to one of my big problems with this story. Food and eating. They're both nagging at each other in this one.
What is this obsession with Bodie and weight? I have one or two dislikes in Pros fic. They include (for example): Doyle as tight-fisted; Doyle routinely taking casual advantage of Bodie (taking deliberate advantage as part of a calculated campaign is somehow okay, though!); and Bodie as constantly on a diet or in need of one.
Bodie's shape changes considerably through the programmes, but I don't think he gains and becomes podgy. If anything, he becomes more trim over the course of the series. Assuming I am watching them in the right order, at least. So why do so many fics go on and on about his weight and weight concerns? And, specifically, chocolate? Does he eat that much chocolate in the programmes? Or even sweet stuff in general? Do men really generally get so excited about chocolate? (Other than as an energy source when in the armed forces and yomping across the Beacons or something.) Throwing stereotypes and cliches around with wild abandon here, I had always understood that chocolate is supposed to be a girlie thing.
Anyway, because I was curious whether it was just this fic I wasn't keen on, or something in the style, I was glancing across others by the same author. And, well.
* Pandora's Box starts off about swiss roll. * Fancy That starts off with them eating "chocolate rum balls" (plunging to depths of seventies Christmas party buffets that I am glad I never encountered - honestly, I have never heard of anything like these, and I remember the seventies Cordon Bleu party food books) and progresses to "when did you eat the cheddar?" * The Joy of Camping has more chocolate and scotch (ugh! No whisky drinker should do that!) and Ray considering how Bodie habitually loses weight with Macklin and puts it back on after. * Losing is an Art gets two screens in before pausing to note that one day, Bodie will have "a real tum on him".
Now, I realise that all authors have their foibles - I have three things on the go at the moment all of which involve Doyle flaunting himself, for example - and I realise that you need background actions to go on with what's going on in the foreground; but there is just so _much_ about people (mostly Bodie) eating chocolate and struggling to avoid weight gain here.
And I can't explain why, but it bothers me more than it should.
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What is this obsession with Bodie and weight? I have one or two dislikes in Pros fic. They include (for example): Doyle as tight-fisted; Doyle routinely taking casual advantage of Bodie (taking deliberate advantage as part of a calculated campaign is somehow okay, though!); and Bodie as constantly on a diet or in need of one.
Bodie's shape changes considerably through the programmes, but I don't think he gains and becomes podgy. If anything, he becomes more trim over the course of the series. Assuming I am watching them in the right order, at least. So why do so many fics go on and on about his weight and weight concerns? And, specifically, chocolate? Does he eat that much chocolate in the programmes? Or even sweet stuff in general? Do men really generally get so excited about chocolate? (Other than as an energy source when in the armed forces and yomping across the Beacons or something.) Throwing stereotypes and cliches around with wild abandon here, I had always understood that chocolate is supposed to be a girlie thing.
Anyway, because I was curious whether it was just this fic I wasn't keen on, or something in the style, I was glancing across others by the same author. And, well.
* Pandora's Box starts off about swiss roll.
* Fancy That starts off with them eating "chocolate rum balls" (plunging to depths of seventies Christmas party buffets that I am glad I never encountered - honestly, I have never heard of anything like these, and I remember the seventies Cordon Bleu party food books) and progresses to "when did you eat the cheddar?"
* The Joy of Camping has more chocolate and scotch (ugh! No whisky drinker should do that!) and Ray considering how Bodie habitually loses weight with Macklin and puts it back on after.
* Losing is an Art gets two screens in before pausing to note that one day, Bodie will have "a real tum on him".
Now, I realise that all authors have their foibles - I have three things on the go at the moment all of which involve Doyle flaunting himself, for example - and I realise that you need background actions to go on with what's going on in the foreground; but there is just so _much_ about people (mostly Bodie) eating chocolate and struggling to avoid weight gain here.
And I can't explain why, but it bothers me more than it should.