Do you remember how she could kill the village lord who was mistreating the servant? Lost hair, which you magically conjured back is worse than that? Hmmm..hm. If you say so.
Hmm i don't really think that is the point though. How often have you in life wished someone was
dead or that something equally as bad happened, regardless if you was 5 or 15 or 50, we have all uttered them words at some point for some trivial reason - Her comments about this woman to me wasn't literal death threats as much as it was a pissed girl who had a unwanted hair cut.
As for the comparison, one thing i think many overlooked with the lord is, she couldn't free the slave or kill the lord, she is still just a person. If we write away killing the lord for now and focus on freeing the slave, well i still don't see that ending well. Their country clearly didn't have such laws against slaves so it's no different from her taking a child or stealing, a crime is a crime, freeing a slave might sound good but she could of been committing a serious crime in doing so, maybe it's just how i see the show (i never expected a "moral of the story" show) but i felt the reality of that story was she simply couldn't do anything to help that kid without effectively risking making it worse for her (doing anything to help her could only have reflected worse in the future), her best bet would of been to take her with her which could be seen as theft or kidnapping depending how the lord viewed the slave, either way it would turn her into a criminal, which whilst many over look this, Elaine makes it known she is a traveller, not a saint.
I think the hair anger just was a temporary spit of rage, I'm not saying she is a good person but i would be a liar to say i have never got angry about something i felt it was a bit far (though i can't fix a issue with magic).
I'm not defending her - i accept i am the minority who doesn't think she is
that bad for being a bit selfish and catering to number one first and only getting involved when it suits her, sure it means she is no angel but hey, i probably wouldn't be so different myself.
With that covered, i do however agree to some of these:
Some points which I were kind "eh" about:
1) Was there some explanation why the people where so much into those dolls? Some spell? Not sure I got any reasoning there.
So true, she briefly mentioned about it being in their culture or something, but it was just in passive chat with the other witch, the concept isn't wrong to create a commodity in a item, a items value is what people would pay for it but other than mentioning "there are no dolls like these in the world" - it really didn't cover why people loved them so much or just at least explain how they came to appreciate them.
2) The villain was so obvious from the get go, but she already understood in the doll shop Elaina being mage. How come she was so shocked Elaina was a witch?
Again true, she did confirm she was a mage before hand, her reaction was so dumb to this scene.
6) I don't think the villain doll-maker was so evil. Yes, they made a complete psycho out of her, but what is wrong to give the money to charity? She was giving out dolls for free and did it for the happy faces of people. If she would regularly be less psycho, I wouldn't even consider her at all jail worthy.
I don't agree so much here, she seems nice on the surface but it's the Robin Hood syndrome, sure she profits and gives it away but she still steals what isn't hers, in this instance she steals hair, sure it weird and not harmful by right but i doubt many people would be happy to wake one morning sporting a new unwanted hair cut because some crazy doll enthusiast down the road is a bit gone in the head. Equally, it seems to me she only gave her proceeds away to the poor to fund her obsessive issue with facial expressions, it was just a rather crummy version of selfishness to me. I still think she was the villain, a crime is a crime, even if it's rather small in scale.
Guess what? I am dropping. Elaina changed her character 180 and back every 2 episodes. Got enough.
Fair enough there though, i wouldn't blame ya if it's bugging you, i found a few shows like that lately and just throw them to the flames, not worth getting annoyed, i do agree her personality changes by her mood it seems.
That aside, i didn't mind the episode, it was what it was, it was hardly serious and a bit dumb of a plot but i don't have any issues with it either, it was what it was. I would of thought people would wake up during a midnight hair cut though, seems a bit weird people are flat out - needless to say, glad she restored her hair, i don't care if that's cheating or what, after all this time with long hair, short hair was a no no.
Either way, as i said above, i accept i am likely the minority on this show who doesn't mind it lol, i imagine a few will likely still drop it, but hey, we all have our own thing.
