Scott Madin

We're watching Sound of Music for the first time in years and I love it so much but uh it's a little terrifying that no one ever uh- ok, let me set the scene:

Fact 1: Rich widower has been through 12 nannies in a shockingly short time. Fact 2: Nanny #13 came back in a panicked rush in the middle of the night, locked herself away, and refuses to say a word to anyone for days (weeks?). How is NO ONE thinking Bluebeard / sexual assault?

I remember as a kid thinking the "12 nannies" thing meant the kids were a terror (which we're supposed to think). But as an adult, my first thought from Maria's & the abbess' POV when the letter asking for a governess comes in is that this guy is probably harassing the help.

He wrote a *goddamn nunnery* for help? which would seem to imply that: A) He can't locate a professional or even a local girl willing to take the job despite his vast sums of money. B) and/or He wants someone virginal and inexperienced living in his house.

I'm sure there's an explanation for why all this was perfectly reasonable in the Real Life events, I'm just amused that the fictional version hits so differently as an adult than when I was a child.

*blink blink* *quickly googles* Phew, she was hired as a tutor for one of the children (who due to illness couldn't go to school). No history of fleeing staff IRL.

Yeah, the changes from rl are pretty fascinating. The rl counterpart to Liesl was sort of indignant they gave her a Nazi boyfriend when she never had a boyfriend ever. She grew up to live her whole life with another woman who was presented to the world as her very good friend.