Oh, dear. Rotten Tomatoes gives The Raven 21% (Audience 55%), though this particular review...

If you take it as agreeably macabre nonsense, yes, you might enjoy it. If you're going to have a conniption fit over every historical inaccuracy, however, give it a pass.

...makes it sound like it might be enjoyable enough. I'll report back. (Please, please, please not horrible anachronisms...Signed, Still Irritated by a recent Staged Dracula referring to Harker's "dime store cross"...because really, what's a "dime" in Victorian England?)

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I remember a version that said the prince's kiss dislodged the piece of apple from her throat, and then she awoke. Which adds another level of ew.

I hope she's actually in love with the prince. Otherwise it's one guy handing over the prize to another guy, and that would just suck.

Wait...doesn't that make it sound like it has horrible anachronisms?

Otherwise it's one guy handing over the prize to another guy, and that would just suck

You have read fairy tales, right?

I'm not sure how the Queen is defeated: it might be one of the "she flew into a rage so great she burned herself up" moments.

The way I remember it, which may be something I made up in my head, Snow White and the prince go live in his kingdom and the Evil Queen is not defeated at all. But she doesn't care if Snow White is the fairest one of all in some other land? Something like that.

Also in my version - she doesn't swallow the bite of apple, it gets lodged in her throat, and when the prince asks to see her and the dwarves obligingly shift her coffin that piece of poisoned apple gets jostled out of place, letting her wake up. I think I must have read a bunch of variations on Snow White and mish-mashed them up in my head.

You have read fairy tales, right?

I am hoping for something more enlightened in the update! After all, this Snow (trailer spoiler) screamed at a troll and distracted him from stomping on the Huntsman, while the original Snow would've just fainted.

I'm going to see it just to watch Hemsworth walk around and swing heavy things and Theron get her evil on.

Wait...doesn't that make it sound like it has horrible anachronisms?

Anachronisms, yes. But RDJ-Sherlock Holmes-style anachronisms I can mostly ignore. (I'm not entirely certain how I'd classify "dime"-style anachronisms, i.e., the ones that I can't handwave, I just hope they don't have too many of them).

Speaking of, I can't believe I was the only person bugged by the fact that Loki got Black Widow's reference to "being in the red" - Really? Lots of accounting references growing up in Asgard? C'mon, I can't be the most pedantic in the room - not when this is the room. (Oh, no, I really am turning into Sheldon...)

The version wikipedia goes with has the dislodging. Also the too-tight lacing, and the poisoned comb--it's all coming back to me.

And, yes, shipping with the Huntsman is allowed, since he falls for her.

If you didn't want to do the legwork in calculating Avenger screentime: [link] (doesn't include Fury or Loki).

Epic, I also thought that was an odd bit of dialogue.

Loki never seemed to have any problem passing as a local, while Thor's lack of knowledge was played for hysterical laughs. Given what he clearly already knows about Earth, it wasn't hard for me to imagine he understands idiomatic English--they are aliens you would imagine are speaking in a foreign tongue on their home planet, after all. I wouldn't know where to start drawing the line in translation.

I am hoping for something more enlightened in the update!

So far there's been no indication she loses consciousness, has there? Or is in anyone's custody? I mean, she's swinging a sword on horseback and all sorts of other things that are completely new to the story.