[ SECRET POST #4741 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4741 ⌋

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[nightscale]

To be fair to Sarah, the Labyrinth world is kind of hellish so I can actually understand her wanting to go back.

But in general I get what you mean, although my opinion would be highly dependent on whether I could cast magic or not, because if I'm just a regular Joe in a world full of magic? Um, yeah I might take the real world over that because I'd probably end up dead in a week.

Also if there's giant spiders I'm gonna be out regardless.

[(Anonymous)]

Labyrinth maps pretty strongly to Tam-Lin where the baby is destined to be shipped off to hell as a tithe when he comes of age. And the fairy queen/king is creepy and has minimal idea of consent, so Labyrinth is possibly not a good example to use in criticism of this trope.

[(Anonymous)]

There's also the fact that Sarah's IRL problems are temporary (and to some degree just related to her being a teenager). Even if she never gets along with her stepmother, she doesn't have to keep living under the same roof as her forever (and that looked like a pretty cushy roof to live under!) Sarah didn't have a shit life.

It's also good she learned not to blame a baby for her problems.

[(Anonymous)]

Labyrinth as a world was the world she thought she wanted, fraught with danger and adventure. (Jareth even tells her outright.) It's a very big plot point that he's the villain because that's what she wanted. He was playing things how she wanted it to be, because she was young and didn't have an idea of what she actually wanted. It sounded amazing in a book, so she wanted to be the book heroine! And then once she was, she realized it wasn't that great, actually. It's why Jareth watches on silently in the end of the story, as she parties with the friends she made. She got what she needed out of that and while he's not part of it, it's enough.

TBH for something fae, Jareth is very giving. (But then fae in love tend to put their everything into it and he's going to remember her FOREVER so.)