Lockwood & Co Readalong discussion

The first 4 chapters of not just this book but of this series. No spoilers in this Discussion. Please look at discussion board over same coverage with freedom to talk about the other books.

To start off I want to share the first part of the forward Stroud added when the Netflix editions came out.

A girl and a boy knock at the door of a house in southwest London. It is a fairly modern house, and they are wearing modern clothes, but they each have a rapier at their belt and workbags full of salt-bombs and iron chains. They have come on professional business. They are here to destroy a ghost. And that, when I sat down and wrote the first three pages of what became The Screaming Staircase, was pretty much all I knew. Who was this pair? Why were there no adults accompanying them? What was the horror that waited for them beyond the door? I didn’t have a clue. (Most of my books start like this, with a single improvised scene.) What I did know was that I wanted to write a ghost story, that children were going to be my heroes, and that, when they came face-to-face with something nasty, I wanted it to be a fair fight.

I plan on opening a Jonathan Stroud Discussion in the Intro folder this week. But I wanted to post this here because I love seeing where writers come from to make their books.

For similarity of the book and show- The part at the beginning where Lockwood and Lucy meet with the client (Mrs. Hope/Mrs. Hope's daughter) where Lucy takes on more of the introduction to prevent Lockwood from temptation of offending/scaring the client right off the bat. But the show version does it different by switching the lines cause Lucy is still new and Lockwood a little more mature/posh/business minded. It really reminded me of a moment in Skip・Beat!, Vol. 3 where Kyoko (main character) has just cause offense during a skit rehearsal. She states her opinon that a character was not realistic because it was too loving and should be more hateful. The training actresses get angry and challenger her to perform the part that will display her version. Her friend tells her to script with the script cause it is the main frame of the play. So she says the exact lines but with a darker expression and then switches the lines of the characters. This enables her to perform her version of the character and she pulls it off.