[ SECRET POST #5931 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5931 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can appreciate the reasoning behind the book's version, and it probably was a "better" ending in the literary sense. But man, I would hate that ending. Having powers and then losing them? What a kick in the teeth!

Having TK obviously doesn't remotely make up for being unloved, neglected, and abused by your family, but gaining a loving and nurturing home-life also doesn't make up for losing your magic freaking powers. The powers may have only developed as a way to cope with the absence of a nurturing home-life, but that doesn't mean that's all the powers would be to the person who had them.

It's not that I see the book ending as unhappy. I just don't see losing one's TK as something that wouldn't feel like a tremendous loss to a person, even if they were overall much happier and better off than they used to be.

[(Anonymous)]

I think in this case, the book was very clear that she had the powers *because* she was so understimulated and miserable. It wasn't that she lost them, it was that her life was so vastly better that she no longer needed them - as if she had the superpowers as a defense mechanism and now she had nothing to defend against.

But I also liked the movie version that she had them still as a bonus extra.

[(Anonymous)]

the book was very clear that she had the powers *because* she was so understimulated and miserable.

No, I understand that, I just disagree with the book's outlook on the whole thing. Regardless of why she develops them, they are their own thing. They have value, and an effect on her self-identity, that is entirely unique to what the are. So to lose them is to lose that value and that part of her self-identity. The fact that she's no longer lacking the things that caused her to develop them in the first place doesn't negate that losing them is, well, a loss.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

Another anon clued me in that in the books her powers are exhausting for her and that she doesn't really have fun with them the way she does in the movie, which really changes the entire dynamic, and in light of that, the book's ending works a lot better for me.

[(Anonymous)]

But in the book she had to exude a lot of mental effort just to get the powers to work at all. They weren't fun for her like in the movie, so she didn't see losing them as a tremendous loss.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, okay, in that case the ending makes way more emotional sense to me and tracks a lot better conceptually too. Thanks for clueing me in to the info I was missing to make it make sense.