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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!)

Comments

[campkilkare]

Belated, but:

I was more-or-less on board until the last act! Really I was much more bothered by failures of story sense than logistical sense; closing out the battle scene with the mirror still there and Snow White looking into it was just... wrong. If you don't have a resolution for your big evil mcguffin, at least don't draw attention to it still being there, being all ominous. It cast a really weird pall over the victory. Maybe the sequel will involve her being tempted by its power, or something? In general the last fight scene between them, with them scrabbling on the floor and the glass monster keeping the other charcters busy in the hallway, just felt like a half-assed "and then the movie's over, I guess."

(why does she even HAVE glass monsters? When I saw them in the trailers I assume it was mirror-related, but.... nope.)

[skygiants]

Man, I don't want a sequel where Snow White is Tempted By the Mirror's Power, but I can't figure that that was foreshadowing anything else. While we were waiting to see if there would be a post-credits scene, we were speculating that it might be something with the mirror doing . . . something creepy . . . but no I guess it standing there being ominous was it! I mean this was part of the general lack of any kind of magical coherence in general, but still.

(WHY DOES SHE EVEN HAVE THAT LEVER)