I don't remember her as being desexed, just that she didn't happen to end up with William.
It has been a very long time since I've seen the movie though.
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Lee - Sep 03, 2005 8:48:17 am PDT #7124 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Volans - Sep 03, 2005 8:48:49 am PDT #7125 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I think she should've ended up with Chaucer.
Cashmere - Sep 03, 2005 8:49:38 am PDT #7126 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
I have a feeling she ended up living in a mud hut with Mark Addy (and a few pigs).
Volans - Sep 03, 2005 8:50:53 am PDT #7127 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I wasn't really invested in who William ended up with, but the way the story was told hit all the formulaic notes for the song that ends with him and Blacksmith Girl together. Him and Princess Chick together wasn't the right resolving chord for those notes.
§ ita § - Sep 03, 2005 8:51:11 am PDT #7128 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not even that picky about who she ended up with ... just that it's irritating to see the out-of-the-box chicks who wander off alone into the sunset after everyone else has picked up the love and career prizes. And when some of the everyone elses are not good epitomes of the gender stereotype, it makes it worse.
It's a thing.
P.M. Marc - Sep 03, 2005 8:54:20 am PDT #7129 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think she should have ended up with the pretty maidservant of the pretty femme ass, though I got the impression she was going to wind up with Roland.
Chaucer should end up with Wat.
JZ - Sep 03, 2005 8:56:02 am PDT #7130 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I haven't even seen the damn thing, but, going by everyone's descriptions of her coolness and ass-kickingness and general overall worthiness, I'd vote for her ending up with Alan Tudyk, just on general principle.
§ ita § - Sep 03, 2005 8:59:12 am PDT #7131 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
As far as I could tell, the princess got the guy because she was a Princess, pretty and rich. They played (like Raq said) the beginning like something was developing between the blacksmith and William -- it's not that I was rooting for her -- I sincerely thought that was what was going to happen.
So when the reins are yanked over into another direction, I'm left wondering "what did she do wrong?"
It's not that love is the ultimate reward and life is empty without it -- just that these chicks so rarely get the love, and it really looked like she was going to pull this time. Really was. Someone.
Cashmere - Sep 03, 2005 9:01:22 am PDT #7132 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Chaucer should end up with Wat.
Please tell me you're writing that slash as I type this.
P.M. Marc - Sep 03, 2005 9:07:12 am PDT #7133 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I only thought they were going to go with Kate as a love interest for a minute or two, because of how hard they were hammering home the change your stars bit. Kate wouldn't have been the star change that Jocelyn was, which is kind of annoying, but I don't think there was a way to do a love interest bit that wouldn't have been.
Please tell me you're writing that slash as I type this.
ETA, no, but if I find it, I'll share.