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What's the deal with the blonde girl?

posted 3 years ago by spurtle467 (1497)
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How is it she's able to hypnotise people by just talking to them, even when she's talking while dying in agony? I know this is a universe where people have special abilities ("shining") and there are these immortal vampire people, but for some reason her hypnotism exploits felt too powerful and far fetched. Hypnotism is possible when you can get people into a suggestive mood. Simply getting strangers under your spell in seconds with next to no prep at any point is not, and made her look like she belonged with the X-Men.

I must say I didn't get this character or why she was given the attention she was to have her relevance fade rather quickly afterwards. Was she evil to begin with also? Perhaps I missed some important dialogue here.

[–] bobbydallas (8053) 3 years ago

i haven't read the book (and won't) but Snakebite's power seems TOO much.
it was even dumber to kill off Billy like that ..

idk

[–] HAL9000 (935) 3 years ago

she was just relevant to introduce the tribe. i agree she felt like an xmen.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Stick to cartoons if these movies become too complex for you.

[–] spurtle467 (1497) 3 years ago

Stick to staying off these boards if any criticism of a film you like upsets you.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

It wasn't hypnotism. It was mind control by some force that she could produce herself.

[–] spurtle467 (1497) 3 years ago

Well hypnotism is a form of mind control.

You may as well have corrected me for calling her a blonde girl and not a yellow haired one.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Yeah..stick with the cartoons alright?

[–] spurtle467 (1497) 3 years ago

Ok...and you stick with being a moron.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Dude you were given the explanation but you still won't see. It's not me who's the moron..

[–] acidraindrop (3055) 3 years ago

Danny is so powerful, that as a young child, he was able to interact with a future iteration of himself who was trying to warn him about what would happen. to him.

His future self. He talked to his future self.

I remember when I watched the X-Men films as a kid, and I was like Logan seems overpowered, and my friends are like, the films have actually dialed down his abilities tremendously. (I wasn't familiar with the comics at the time.)

The hypnotism is not too powerful or far-fetched. But if it reassures you any, it's been a while, but I'm pretty sure that scene where she got him in her dying throes didn't happen in the book like that. That was just another case of the movie adding stakes and urgency.

Narratively, the character's presence is to introduce the reader/viewer to the tribe from a newbie's perspective.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Logan never struck me as overpowered. Compared to the other X Men and the villains they were fighting.

[–] acidraindrop (3055) 3 years ago

Not really here to discuss whether or not Logan is overpowered or not.

I was using Logan as example of my ignorance, because I was annoyed how he took a bullet to the head, and then came back to life a few minutes later. My friends were like, dude, he can recover from being a half skeleton in an explosion within seconds in the comics.

I only brought this up because OP is acting like this hypnotist is overpowered when Danny is totally ridiculous in comparison.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Oh, OK. I'd say that's poor writing, the writer not understanding that there are some things his healing abilities shouldn't be able to do. He also shouldn't be able to heal himself after getting blown to pieces in a massive explosion.

When you said overpowered, I thought maybe you meant he was a lot more powerful than characters like Storm or Jean Gray or Magneto. I get what you mean, though. His healing abilities should have limitations.

[–] acidraindrop (3055) 3 years ago

Ah, yeah, I was using the term overpowered loosely. OP's saying the hypnotism is too strong in of itself.

But your example is actually better than what I did. If all a person sees is Logan, and doesn't compare him to these other characters, he's gonna seem absurd.

The hypnotism power only seems absurd if you don't compare it to like what Danny has demonstrated himself to be capable of.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

The buildup for the character of "Snakeyes" (or whatever) was quite intriguing for me upon my first viewing. I.was very disappointed nothing of note was done with the character for the rest of the film. I.naturally assumed the character was given more emphasis in King's novel but her story in the film seemed very truncated--even if you're watching the "extended cut".