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[skygiants]

Disorganized thoughts on Snow White and the Huntsman!



- that movie made zero sense in a lot of ways
- and yet I am totally okay with that, because it made no sense in all the ways that Classic Epic Fantasy about a Destined Chosen King-To-Be makes no sense, except about a Destined Chosen Queen-To-Be, and you know what, still not enough of that out there! So rock on, movie. COMMIT to your bad fantasy tropes self. I AM WITH YOU
- also it was very pretty
- except when fairies were slithering out of the backs of birds because seriously, WTF
- or when Snow White was communing with random helpful horses and mystical stags because HAHAHAHA and also, again, WTF
- also this movie wanted you to make very sure you knew what it shipped, which was hilarious, and fine by me, I am willing to roll with that!
- especially since I could not manage to pay much attention any time the non-Thor love interest was on the screen
- but I am really happy that the movie ended with Snow White becoming queen without having to Pick A Dude or Resolve The Love Triangle, because that's not the point!
- I am totally on board with the rumored sequel and/or trilogy because I really, really want it to be the fourth book of Twelve Kingdoms, in which the queen doesn't know a lot about ruling, because she has never had any training in it, and then learns about ruling and is awesome and responsible, possibly with the help of a couple of revolutionary teenaged girls her own age, and it's great
- but the rumored sequel and/or trilogy probably will not be that in any way :(
- BUT I LIVE IN HOPE
- (also otherwise I have no idea what you would even do with a sequel and/or trilogy
- (but if any of you have ideas, please do tell me!)

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[aberration]

Dude, my friend said the same thing about the convenient horse and the answer was obvious: THE BIRDS TOLD THE HORSE TO BE THERE.

Or maybe the fairies in the birds did. SOMETHING.

But yeah, these are generally my thoughts. I do wish it had been more coherent (like, I didn't even understand what happened at the end - was it that Snow White could kill her because she was the Fairest? Or that she had to kill her with a knife with the blood from one of them on it? No clue), especially because I felt like with a decent script doctor it probably could have been a not terrible movie (like, just fewer awkward lines, more jokes that aren't punching Chris Hemsworth in the stomach as totally hilarious as that is, and again just a bit more sense making - I don't need total sense! Just some! More of an excuse for random stag thing, more explanation as to what the fuck happened with that apple, and maybe less random back story that didn't actually shed light on things? I don't know). But whatever, I still had fun with the pretty, campy bs of it.

Also, I'm just saying - the only time Snow White actually kisses someone of her own volition, she's technically kissing a lady. JUST SAYING.

[shati]

And that lady spends the whole movie trying to capture Snow White's heart! Granted, in an alarmingly literal fashion...

[aberration]

"Snow White" is clearly just a patriarchal retelling of a lesbian love story.

... actually it's kind of sad how quickly I whipped that story up in my head.

[skygiants]

I have NO IDEA what happened at the end. DESTINY! MAGIC! PURITY OF HEART! Some...thing...SINGLE SAD TEAR FOR THE HUMAN BEING RAVENNA COULD HAVE BEEN, WE'RE DONE.

Hah, we walked out of the movie, and Gen said, "how much threesome fic do you think fandom will write?" And I said, "Probably not that much! Come on, fandom will write INFINITELY MORE Snow/Ravenna fic than it will write anything to do with William."

(And then Gen said, "but it will probably write more William/Huntsman fic too," to which I had to make faces and agree, despite finding it incomprehensible, because fandom.)