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Originally Posted by rockfenris2005
Jim is a BRILLIANT example of something I really love with this kind of stuff: CONTINUITY.
Of course you get CONTINUITY with Jim because of, example, riff for "Stark raving love" in "Holding out for a hero". I love that.
I don't know if Jim was consciously intentionally writing it all as "Neverland", but I think it works out that way anyway in the end. They all could be characters in Neverland. And don't forget that there were more adventures. Bat 2 could have been like Wendy going back to Neverland or something haha.
Edit: If I think about it, that's really interesting. Peter always stays the same. And Hook probably always keeps coming back. Like how he was still alive in "Hook" and abducted his kids.
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Fully agree...It's like when you watch a musical and get the Overture with snippets of the melodies and such. I am sure that a story could be built around all of Jim's songs (the ones that aren't exclusively linked to a story already anyway - basically any studio album recorded song) and if you take a handful of riffs from things like Good Girls and Frying Pan and you cover a lot of ground.
A couple of times (One of them being the classic albums interviews about Bat i think) it has been said that everything Jim has ever written goes into Neverland, and I'm sure that's been true of everything since - even the stuff written for the likes of Batman. To my knowledge it is something unique, and I also believe a lot harder than many give credit for. Anyone can go away and write something completely different with a different feel and dynamic, but to fit everything within the world you have created, keeping the tone and feel the same, working something familiar into something unheard, takes a very special mind and method to work.