![]() “But never in the past did I feel I had the right to entice them away from the Earth.” “I have always loved them and wished they could be with me on my lonely star,” he tells every dog on the planet. Being the only giant space dog with magical mind powers, what the fuck, he’s a bit lonely, so he’s been creeping on Earth’s dogs since the beginning of time. It turns out the cause of all this is the dogstar, Sirius…who is a real dog, made of energy or some shit. If you think this sounds like the beginning of a canine dystopian horror thriller, just you wait. ![]() They also feel strangely docile, Pongo remarking at one point that “there are hundreds-no, thousands-of dogs crowded together. ![]() Don’t think about it too much.)įurther, dogs can make things in the physical world work just by wishing that they would-doors opening, traffic lights turning on, that sort of thing-and they never get hungry, thirsty, or tired. Further, dogs now have power to psychically communicate with each other and can zoom along using the power of thought-it’s called “swooshing,” and yes Smith does use the term “Hover-dogs.” (There’s a “Hover-tractor,” too. The plot of Starlight Barking goes like this: Pongo wakes up to discover that every creature on Earth that isn’t a dog-humans, cats, insects, birds (even, for a dash of whimsy, the wind)-has fallen into a mysterious sleep from which they cannot be woken. I’ve never seen Disney’s 102 Dalmatians, but I doubt it has any similarity to Smith’s chosen continuation of the story of Pongo and Perdita (named “Missus” in the book, which had a different Perdita character), unless Disney was fond of flying dogs with psychic powers and the ability to bend the physical world to their whim. Less well-known than either of those two books is her 1967 101 Dalmatians sequel, The Starlight Barking, which Disney never touched with a ten-foot pole, because it is fucking bizarre. …was also based on a 1956 book by English writer Dodie Smith, who is otherwise best known for her delightful 1949 coming-of-age novel I Capture the Castle. ( You can sit tight and gaze for a minute. Disney’s 101 Dalmatians, aside from being the Disney movie with the most underrated male lead…
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