I also have to wonder just what exactly broke the spell on Sophie. The death of the Fire Demon? Although her hair apparently was back to normal just before that... I don't know. Howl implies that the spell is at least partly her own, but I'm wondering why it'd drop just right then.Yes indeed! Having finished up, what I really wanted to ask you all was, OK, when did the spell break on Sophie? The movie version of this goes along well with the "it's partly hers" theory from the book, with her becoming uncursed (disenchanted?) when she was too busy to remember how old she was, and then reverting back once the action slowed down again. But, I didn't get a sense of her hair changing colors anywhere except the end, or her joints getting (much) better in the middle, etc. Given how much other story elements are telegraphed a mile away, I lean towards thinking that curse broke when the Witch died
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I totally agree to the pacing thing. A whole bunch of stuff happens really quick and then a whole bunch of stuff gets explained really quick and then boom, we're done
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I did like the touch about Howl showing up to rescue her all disheveled, calling back to Micheal's comment about how they'd know he was in love when he didn't spend hours getting ready in the bath in the morning.
Oh! Totally!
And how long was the fire demon pretending to be Miss Angorian in Wales? They made it sound like she was a regular teacher there, not some substitute who'd just shown up. Or was there a real Miss Angorian around before that the Witch... disposed of? =P
Is there a reason to think that the fire demon was in Wales at all? Somehow I assumed it was just dressed as Miss Angorian when poking around in Sophie's world.(*) Is the Miss Angorian that we meed on the Wales trip too knowledgable to be legit?
It was mainly e) for me. I guess it was just too depressing to think that Suliman just ditched his fiance without a second thought in favor of Lettie, and the real Miss Angorian is still back in Wales wondering what happened to him.
Of course one could make the argument that parts of his brain got scrambled during the whole jigsaw thing and he honestly doesn't remember her, but that only makes him less of an ass, it doesn't make it any less depressing for her.
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Oh! Totally!
And how long was the fire demon pretending to be Miss Angorian in Wales? They made it sound like she was a regular teacher there, not some substitute who'd just shown up. Or was there a real Miss Angorian around before that the Witch... disposed of? =P
Is there a reason to think that the fire demon was in Wales at all? Somehow I assumed it was just dressed as Miss Angorian when poking around in Sophie's world.(*) Is the Miss Angorian that we meed on the Wales trip too knowledgable to be legit?
(*) Not this one.
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Of course one could make the argument that parts of his brain got scrambled during the whole jigsaw thing and he honestly doesn't remember her, but that only makes him less of an ass, it doesn't make it any less depressing for her.
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