[ SECRET POST #3665 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3665 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I would say that her ignoring Gaston most definitely was a problem that blew up in her face when he had the charisma and following to both ruin her father's life and then rile the entire town into baying for the Beast's blood. Not that she should have had to pander to him, hell no, but maybe pay attention to the fact that his extreme popularity makes him a very very difficult person to go up against? The Beast is an obvious danger, but Gaston is a much more insidious one, one she didn't see coming until it was already too late, mostly because she'd already dismissed him in her mind as an idiot and no threat. Which, even if the Beast had never happened, was not a smart move. Her father always had a fairly precarious position in the town, and Gaston proved more than willing to take opportunities as they came to get rid of him and leave Belle with him as her only option. He doesn't take no for an answer, and dismissing him out of hand wasn't ever a good idea.

I don't buy that I saw any kind of real humanity that extended beyond "perfect Mary Sue" when Belle saved her father or asked the Beast to step into the light. Her fear was not developed, nor the sense of what she might have been sacrificing.

I don't think they felt the need to expand on what she was sacrificing when it was fairly explicitly everything. How much more explicit or developed does it need to be when the Beast up front demanded that she sign herself over to him for the rest of her life? I mean, a kid watching that maybe isn't going to read some of the darker interpretations into it, but everyone else sure as hell managed. Maybe they didn't feel any need to further show her fear than her flinching from the sight of him and then collapsing in tears when he leaves either, because who the hell isn't afraid when a monster basically buys them in exchange for their father's life? I mean, I didn't think that was particularly subtle, but okay. More cringing and screaming next time, got it.

As for her falling in love with her captor ... she saved the Beast. Several times over in fact, both physically and magically. When he was wounded saving her from wolves, she saved him back by getting him home again and helping heal him. She saved him magically by forcing him, by actively standing up to him, to become someone who can love and be loved by someone else. That was his arc. He changed because of her. Because she fought him, and healed him, and came back for him, and gave him hope again. She saved him at the end of the movie by reaching out to him when he'd already lost everything, making him fight back long to pull himself back over the parapet. It wasn't like she was a doll for him to fall in love with and passively fall in love in return. She fought, every step of the way, she changed him by challenging him and by being someone worth changing for, she literally saved him both from his curse and from physical death. That was the peak of her arc. Becoming someone who can do that, becoming someone even a monster would feel worth changing for.

You don't like her, fair enough, you're allowed not to. Calling her flat, static or perfect, that I will argue with.

[otakugal15]

Fucking bravo, man!!