#cotrk meta

Your brother mysteriously disappears from right under your nose and you don't see him again for almost 90 years.

You KNOW your cousin Zeke was involved somehow. You have no proof. No one has any ideas where he could have gone. You're also completely powerless.

Also your sister dies young, too. Congratulations, you just became an only child :)

Fangirl brain: Angel Coulby as gender-swapped Paton Yewbeam??!!

Logical brain: You can’t just fan-cast Angel Coulby in everything...

Fangirl brain: Watch me.

But seriously, I do want a COTRK adaptation. If live-action, then done by the BBC because the UK setting is pretty important. A cartoon might be more plausible though, especially when it comes to casting the kids and retaining the books’ fairly compressed timeline.

Somebody pretty awesome needs to be cast as Paton because he is awesome. He has his flaws but as I reread COTRK it’s clear that he is as vivid of a character as I remembered.

I suspect my brain suggested Coulby since she has proven to handle a character that switches between diffident & outspoken with ease due to her role in Merlin. Paton’s arc is all about him growing more willing to speak up & push back against his sisters & the Bloors. Whoever plays Lyell would have to be capable of similar range due to the state he’s in for the first 5 books.