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2. Don't be rude toward the artists, their work, or other readers.
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Panel 1: Maleen looks worn and troubled. Maleen: I am Maid Maleen. For seven years, on your account, I was a prisoner in darness and suffered hunger and thirst. Then I lived for a long time in need and poverty.
Panel 2: Maleen smiles up at the prince. He touches her cheek softly. Maleen: But today the sun is shining on me once again. We were wed in the church, and I'm your lawful wife.
Panel 3: Orland smiles at Maleen.
Panel 4: The couple kisses sweetly.
Panel 2: Maleen smiles up at the prince. He touches her cheek softly. Maleen: But today the sun is shining on me once again. We were wed in the church, and I'm your lawful wife.
Panel 3: Orland smiles at Maleen.
Panel 4: The couple kisses sweetly.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! Lovely, best page yet! hehe.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “And They Lived Happily Ever After!”
And I’ll add, Maleen looks absolutly wonderful in that first panel!
Ok, maybe I’m the odd one out, but did I miss an explanation of why he never even tried to get in the tower or see if she was ok? If I was Maleen I would have been furious with him for not checking in even at the end of the seven years, not happy about marrying him. She went through 7 years of darkness and hunger for him, and he did…what? Moaned about losing her without caring enough to check in? That said, very pretty page! I love her expression in panel 1. :)
Heh, well, that’s pretty much how the fairy tale played out – the prince never checked the tower and just assumed she died, then NEVER put two and two together when meeting a girl that LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE HER and constantly spoke about her. These aren’t really flaws of the adaptation, as they’re in the source material as well. Just run with it – people in fairy tales are flippin’ insane.
Because her father, who was a king, put her there with the intention of never getting her out. People rarely disobeyed parents and kings.
Yeah, I really agree about this. I mean, I understand Rebochan’s argument that it’s more a problem with the source material than with this adaption, but… adaptions are allowed to change things, or add details, and make it better. I think some more definite lines of what Orland did to get Maleen back would’ve made him less of a complete wimp who doesn’t deserve her and more into the hero of a fairytale.
The thing is, though, the prince in this tale ISN’T a hero. He’s just a prince who was rejected as a suitor by the mighty king. There are lots of fairy tales where the prince comes to the rescue, but this was not one of them. While we could have changed it to make it more appealing, that would have changed the nature of the story. We do indeed give the stories our own personal touches in the tellings, but we don’t change the facts.
It’s a fairy tail. You should really just relax…
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MST3KMantra
Links to TV Tropes need warnings. ;-)
The fact that it’s a link to TV tropes is the only warning you’re going to get I’m afraid. :(
the first time I found Tv Tropes, I stayed up all night long and into the next day with no sleep. That’s not normal, but on TV tropes it is.
TV Tropes: not even once.
I’m thinking that since her father’s kingdom was, y’know, destroyed and all, that may have been a big factor in the prince’s not looking…
I’m kinda wondering why the invaders didn’t destroy Maleen’s tower.
In the original story it implies at the end that the tower is exceptionally sturdy by saying that “the wall it will not break,/ the stone cannot be pierced./” in a nursery rhyme that kids sang around it years afterward.
I know I am late to this discussion, but since the kingdom was destroyed, wouldn’t Orland have been aware of that, and gone to look for her?
In my experiance in fairytales, you either have a strong female lead or a strong male lead. It’s rare that there is both. There are a few exceptions. I think in Brother and Sister it has both. Of course the most popular fairytales tend to have the male saving the female like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. I go gaga over both scenarios lol.
There is actually a really good adaptation of the fairytale that was turned into a book. I don’t remember the name of it, but if I find it I can post it.
are you referring to Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale?
You know, you have to wonder how the false bride’s family is going to react to this. Presumably they’re royalty or some kind of nobility (their daughter was going to marry a prince, after all) and suddenly their daughter comes back, probably in tears, and gives them a sob story about how her fiancee married some chambermaid instead. Depending on how powerful her family is, this could very easily come back and bite everybody in the ass.
Orland: Dad! It turns out the woman I married was actually Maid Maleen!
Orland’s dad: Congratulations! Your actions might possibly trigger a war, but you got your old girlfriend back and that’s all that matters!
I just reread the comic, and noticed something… In earlier pages, Maleen’s eyes are brown, but now they are blue. Is there any reason for this, was it a color typo, or am I just going crazy? xD
I went through the pages, but didn’t see any places where her eyes were brown. Can you give me specific page numbers so I can go in and edit that? XD
On pages 4, 6, and 7 were the ones that they looked brown to me, but I took a closer look with a different computer screen and I think it might be the darkness of her pupils that’s throwing off my sense of color. Guess I WAS going a little crazy. xD Sorry about that.
I read back as well and I wouldn’t say they look brown, but before page 23 Maleen’s eyes were more like dark slate blue and from page 23 onwards they’re more of a light cornflower blue. :3
i didn’t notice a color change, but i went back and looked and it appears that before page 23, maleen’s eyes are a grayish blue that kind of looks a little brown in some panels. mostly the ones at the very beginning when they’re busting out of the tower and looking for work.
what I saw is that mostly all the times her eyes are really small throughout the whole comic, at the beginning, when comparing to the maid, you can see the blue is the same, but maleen’s pupils are a stronger black then hers all the time, wich makes them look darker. Eventually the maid stopped showing up next to maleen and her pupils got softer and then in this page we have the big eyes where the pupil is basically all blue so I think this is where people noticed the “color change” most. You know the whole, checker shadow color optical illusion thing basically, dunno if you get what I,m referancing to here though.
Aww, Orland’s eyes are blue again! Happy prince! :D
Of course, by the time she says “We were wed in the church, and I’m your lawful wife”…why, then the romance can just (ahem) intensify. Oh, yes, and there’s the prospect of babies. (Grin.)
And Disney ending cut.
Beautiful pic and sweet reunion :D