A Doyle thing to think about continued

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I ended up AWOL from the continuing discussion yesterday, but since the thread below has hit 103 which means it has that irritating tendency to concertina, and since a new thread for continuation was requested, I thought I'd post this one. Everyone's bound to go all quiet now... *g*

Some interesting (I think!) thoughts/questions/wonderments from the previous thread (backwards from the bottom of the old thread), in all sorts of directions:

shootingtokill: Another thought on Doyle's supposed selfishness: Doyle is often the one who feeds Bodie or who is expected to feed him...He supplies him with a sandwich in Cry Wolf; brings a 'pressie' or something drink/food in the one where Bodie is acting on surveillance; Bodie looks for some breakfast in his fridge in Hunter-Hunted (doyle's only got stale bread but the onus is on him to toast it!); Doyle searches out a bottle of whisky for Cowley in Fall Girl (out of some boxes in his flat); and yes, he actually cooks him a meal in Involvement. Even though I feel deep down that Bodie's not mean, I don't remember him catering for anyone apart from making Frances a cup of comforting tea in Dead Reckoning. I'm sure there are more examples of Doyle and I'll go think on it.

hgdoghouse: From the pov of a very old writer thinking about writing Pros again I think my perspective has changed to the degree that because it's so much easier actually to see the episodes, thanks to the DVDs, that I have various episode-based ideas I'd like to play with, if they're not too much hard work on the action/adventure front. When I first started the idea of an organisation like CI5 was enough to make me break out - I still loathe the idea of it in theory, but can let it slide more.

I'm not so bothered by how thick Cowley is in some of the episodes.
I had this ridiculous hangup about not being able to write them as a committed pair until after the various women had vanished from their lives - certainly post Involvement. Now I think I'll be able to play with whatever episode takes my fancy and not worry about the 'running order'so much - unless, of couse, it suits a story idea... Do other people have stuff like that which affects what sort of story they can, or want to, write?

magentablue: Interesting though where such ideas come from - it would be fab if everyone here today wrote what their particular fanon is with the characters and why, maybe that would shed some light on it!

Many, many other interesting points/discussion threads below, if anyone'd like to carry them over to this post...*g*