New Adventures of Peter + Wendy

[icepixie]

I still don't really grok webseries--it's kind of like, just when something gets interesting, they cut off and there's a new episode and I'm thrown out of the story--but I ran across The New Adventures of Peter + Wendy this evening and wound up watching the entire first season. It's kind of like if Pushing Daisies-era Bryan Fuller had somehow gotten ahold of Spaced. And put in a lot of annoying talking-to-the-camera parts, but it seems that this is standard in webseries. The actress who plays Wendy is very good (she reminds me of Olive/Kristin Chenoweth but with more straight man qualities), as is the guy who plays John, and Peter and Wendy are undeniably adorable.

(I have to admit that it irks me somewhat how there are three women on the show--if you count Tinkerbelle--all of whom are in love with a guy who, frankly, doesn't that many great qualities, and are all vaguely jealous of each other because of it.)

It does take a while to get used to, though. I spent the first five episodes doing a lot of, "Wait, what? Why is Peter Pan a slacker and Wendy a journalist and Michael a pothead and why do they all live in modern-day Ohio and hang on, fairies still exist here?"

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Via wintercreek, the Ultimate Trope Showdown.

1 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
2 Friends to Lovers
3 Trapped in an Elevator/Snowed-In Cabin/etc
4 Magical Connection (telepathy, etc)
5 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
6 Fake Out Make Out
7 Hurt/Comfort
8 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
9 Found Families
10 Amnesia
11 Soulmate Identifying Marks: Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc
12 Adopting/Raising a Baby
13 Royalty/Arranged Marriage
14 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Warp
15 Loyalty Kink
16 Rivalmancy
17 Espionage AU
18 Vampires/Werewolves AU
19 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
20 Actually Unrequited Pining
21 Role Reversal AU
22 High School/Uni AU
22 Sex Pollen
24 Incest
24 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
24 A/B/O
24 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
24 Age Difference (possibly due to time travel)

Comments

[jae]

I'm as non-tropey as fans get (for the most part, I never want the same sort of thing twice in a story, and to most of the standard tropes my reaction is a puzzled "why?"), but I tried to do the "ultimate trope showdown" just to see if it would come up with anything at all, and it actually did find three tropes I was drawn to, one of them pretty strongly! That's a pretty powerful tool.

-J

[icepixie]

I have to admit, the only thing it revealed for me was that I apparently hate Espionage AUs slightly less than I do all other non-canon-related AUs. ;) There are tropes at the top of the list I will consume with pretty much any configuration of characters, in any setting or media format. I love me some fake marriage that turns into feeeeeeelings!