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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1492037" data-attributes="member: 812">Well, Abraxas, we disagree. Sounds to me like you're dismissing people as plot points because that's the only way you consider them -- but you probably think I'm reading way too much into the script, huh? Oh well.Daryl Hannah's performance demonstrated far more than just "hate", however. I don't think you can deny she displayed petulance, grudging respect, jealousy, envy, satisfaction, frustration, bitterness and plain old fury. You can say it was all hate if you like, but I found just her conversation on the telephone in the hospital contained half-a-dozen poignant transitions that were beautifully handled.And to me, a good character is one that goes through transitions. That changes.Which lines of Bill's do you think were mystic psychobabble?I also find Thomas Covenant a character not very much worth my effort -- I don't want to read about him because I just don't like. Or at least I didn't when I first read those books -- twenty years ago or more now. I might like them better, now.But I don't see that the Bride had much to do with him. To me, Covenant's primary characteristic is his constant whining and complaining and weaselling out of what needs to be done. In contrast, I found the Bride was direct and without excuses -- she let you know what she wanted and she went after it. As unlike Covenant as I could imagine, frankly.For myself, I had no idea how it was going to end. I couldn't conceive of what was going to happen next. When Bill shot her, I didn't see that coming. When he told BB that he'd killed Beatrix -- I didn't see that coming. When Elle killed Budd -- I didn't see that coming.And I read the screenplay a year ago, so I SHOULD have known. But I'm notoriously poor at guessing how stories turn out. Except for The Sixth Sense. Got that one.</blockquote>

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