You know, another interesting parallel, in context, is that there's this not-exactly-subplot in ReAnimator where you realize Herbert West has been shooting himself up with his own reagent for quite some time, probably so he can stay awake for days and Do Science. It's never explored as fully as I would've liked it to be, though it probably explains how he can escape certain plot twists and survive certain amounts of damage. If I was writing the sequel I always wanted to, it would be called Herbert West: ReAnimated, and would include a sequence in which Handsome Dr Dan tries drying Herbert out after he accidentally overdoses.
Herbert: How dare you! I have work to do! Dan: Yup, and that work's going to go a lot more easily after you kick. Herbert: My God, Dan, you're talking like I've been shooting smack. Dan: No, what you've been doing is taking an experimental drug you make yourself like it's Aspirin. Did you seriously think there weren't going to be any side-effects? Herbert: (Mutinous) There never were before... Dan: There were, actually--you just didn't notice them. Because you were high. Herbert: Someone's going to notice when I don't show up to class. Dan: At Miskatonic? Please. Not to mention that one of the things you apparently haven't quite twigged to is that no one actually goes to your classes because A) your grading curve is ridiculously difficult and B) you're creepy.
Aaaaand then there's hurt-comfort as Herbert becomes slightly less disconnected from his own body, etc. All that. Followed by him getting killed and resurrecting, and some sort of variant on Cool Air. It's sad to me that both Jeffrey Combs and Bruce Abbott are now too old to do this and have it fit where I'd like it to, in canon chronology. But it'd be fun trying to figure out who you could recast with.
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You know, another interesting parallel, in context, is that there's this not-exactly-subplot in ReAnimator where you realize Herbert West has been shooting himself up with his own reagent for quite some time, probably so he can stay awake for days and Do Science. It's never explored as fully as I would've liked it to be, though it probably explains how he can escape certain plot twists and survive certain amounts of damage. If I was writing the sequel I always wanted to, it would be called Herbert West: ReAnimated, and would include a sequence in which Handsome Dr Dan tries drying Herbert out after he accidentally overdoses.
Herbert: How dare you! I have work to do!
Dan: Yup, and that work's going to go a lot more easily after you kick.
Herbert: My God, Dan, you're talking like I've been shooting smack.
Dan: No, what you've been doing is taking an experimental drug you make yourself like it's Aspirin. Did you seriously think there weren't going to be any side-effects?
Herbert: (Mutinous) There never were before...
Dan: There were, actually--you just didn't notice them. Because you were high.
Herbert: Someone's going to notice when I don't show up to class.
Dan: At Miskatonic? Please. Not to mention that one of the things you apparently haven't quite twigged to is that no one actually goes to your classes because A) your grading curve is ridiculously difficult and B) you're creepy.
Aaaaand then there's hurt-comfort as Herbert becomes slightly less disconnected from his own body, etc. All that. Followed by him getting killed and resurrecting, and some sort of variant on Cool Air. It's sad to me that both Jeffrey Combs and Bruce Abbott are now too old to do this and have it fit where I'd like it to, in canon chronology. But it'd be fun trying to figure out who you could recast with.