Movie Night VI: Direct to DVD

[unrecovered]

Who| Wash and anyone who wants to join
What| Movie night!
Where| The same lounge it's always in
When| After Time Ripples, Mind Slayer, and Wash Dies At The End
Warnings/Notes| Yet another classic!

It's been an odd few weeks, to say the least. Wash barely waits to be out of the hospital before he heads to the lounge to set up a movie night. He's had a request for a classic, and he'd managed to get in an order for the film before everything had gone batshit insane, so it's already arrived and he's just about ready to go.

The usual snacks and drinks are set up, along with a few mugs and goblets that are a little closer to theme. There's also the usual sofas and couches, draped with blankets and with bean bag chairs strewn around around the room. The usual sign hangs outside the door, with the movie's MPAA rating and a brief summary of the movie's plot, along with the usual note: Movie night is neutral territory.

The movie tonight, of course, is The Princess Bride.

Comments

[nofortunateson]

"Hopefully this means she doesn't throw herself down the hill." North can get behind Big Impressive Gestures, when there's even a semblance of a point to them. But buying a fresh coat of bruises and risking bashing your head open on a rock when there's nothing close to a need for it? That's idiotic. And their friend here (whose height and face still has North's spine prickling adrenaline-ready and his trigger finger itchy, even though he intellectually knows he couldn't possibly be sitting an arm's length from an Elite picking holes in the plot of a romance-adventure film) - he has a good point.

"I mean, you're right. Even if he used to be Westley, he isn't anymore."

[thedreamisdead]

"Maybe more of a controlled roll. Even if Humperdinck is tracking her, and she still believes he truly loves her enough to do so at this point, she doesn't know that Inigo and Fezzik are dead. Just that they might be. And given her probable lack of survival training, it is probably best to stick close to the man who wants you enough to return after years of being away. At the very least, he's not going to kill her right off the bat. Besides, if he can track her through the open sea, up the Cliffs of Insanity, and through as much space as the three assassins can put between them, she obviously can't slip away on her lonesome."

She shrugs. Sometimes survival means playing along.

"Honestly, I don't see why most of the rest of the movie shouldn't play out as it did before. It's best not to aggravate him and, with Humperdinck being the greatest tracker in the land and having horses, it's only a matter of time before they catch up. Therefore, it's best to stick close to Roberts." She pauses, then nods to Garrus. "Who used to be Westley, yes. I don't think any of us walked away from our first kills unchanged."

Except maybe Kubo. But he's special.

"Besides, if she doesn't get the promise to let Roberts go from Humperdinck, how would she find out about his treachery without him killing her first? Because, let's be real. She's not winning in a fight against him."

[calibrates_big_guns]

"Though it would make it a hell of a moment if she gets the drop on him later," Garrus muses after nodding his agreement all throughout America's list of suggestions. "Not to mention it would go a long way towards making this her story."

Which, maybe it wasn't meant to be - especially as it stands right now - but it should be. Most of the plot revolves around her, she should get to be a part of it at the very least.

[bachido]

Shockingly, Kubo nodded along with most of this.

"He shouldn't have hit her," is all the input he solemnly gives. "I don't understand THAT part either."

[nofortunateson]

"I think he's trying to keep up his cover as the Dread Pirate Roberts for as long as possible. Though . . ." He shakes his head. There are things he doesn't want to think about - things he can't fix right now anyway, if ever, though they shadow his words a little all the same. "If you think you love someone but you're willing to do that, something's gone wrong. You can't just call it a love story at that point."

He'd mostly been benignly bored and inattentive through a lot of the romance and relationship parts, but they're right. Buttercup should be angrier.

[thedreamisdead]

"What's the drokking point?" She pauses, then glances at Kubo. "Pardon the language." And then she focuses back on North. "But there's no one around. Just him and the woman he supposedly loves. Why would keeping up the charade of being Roberts matter at all? If anything, if he'd told her right off, she wouldn't have struggled against him."

Granted, for the vision of a political thriller that she and Garrus seemed to be building up to, prolonging the reveal as long as they did would probably go for the height of drama. She pauses, considering, then glances at Kubo, then the alien. "The problematic slap aside, as stupid as he was for doing so, I suppose drama demands it. If he told her right before being captured, her head might be swimming too much to protest for his life. If he told her at the beginning, the woman we want her to be would probably realize just what sort of monster she's dealing with early on. This does give her a precious bit of time to process the truth of the matter without getting too far into realizing what it means to be the Dread Pirate Roberts."

[walkingballpit]

Robbie had been listening to the conversation from the start, but he hadn't wanted to out himself as a book nerd and, to be honest, hadn't wanted to provide America with ammunition against one of his favorite movie quote sources.

Only the amount of stuff he's biting his tongue about has reached critical mass. "In the book, Buttercup's a lot dumber. I think they tried to make her as smart as they could, without addressing that plot hole."

He can't stop with just that, though. "And it's heavily implied most of them die in the end."