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Post by bonjour! on Dec 13, 2005 17:41:01 GMT
I like the way that the writers have directed the season, and haven't felt that they've been "treading water" at all. Killing Malachi would never be simple. Ella's had 500 years of training for that reason. So all the problems she's come across are normal. Although i'll get shot for making a Buffy reference lol, Buffy always took a whole season to kill her main nemesis. Why shouldn't Ella? And i enjoyed the whole ella/mal story. Yes, it was a bit repititive to cas/az, but it was interesting to explore how passion and emotion can mess up the duty and a more than 500 year old mission, and how we are all prey to our feelings. It also showed how fickle Malachi was, to seem so sincere about Ella and then turn on her when he realised he controlled her. Btw, about that, does anyone else think that Ella/Mal's big white explosion fun changed Mal aswel as Ella? I mean, before, he did seem to actually love her, or was on the road to it. For example, when Thelma said she would take a blind Mal to boily Ella, he looked so, i don't know, relieved.
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Post by elladeeenchanted on Mar 13, 2011 17:51:34 GMT
i personally think all of you that prefer cassie over ella are bonkers :') yes cassie was a good character and her character had alot of depth. Whereas ella you saw the depth of her character, shes a strong independent woman, not only a witch and an annointed one, and i thought she was aa great role model for teenage girls, and i rather enjoyed the ella/malachi story line, although i agree, why did malachi change if he loved ella so much, what happened to his "love is blind" inspirational speech. although if ella hadnt been saved malachi would have still won but there would have been no hope at allll
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Post by orokiah on Mar 15, 2011 13:52:50 GMT
although i agree, why did malachi change if he loved ella so much, what happened to his "love is blind" inspirational speech. although if ella hadnt been saved malachi would have still won but there would have been no hope at allll My take on it is this: the boils-slash-blindness built on their lust for each other and engineered a deeper connection, on both sides, than really existed. It's all in the pursuit of neutralising Ella and further empowering Malachi. The boils may have genuinely been intended to deter/punish Ella, but the other side's use of affliction was much more complex. Malachi is consistently portrayed as heartless, selfish and a thoroughly nasty piece of work. He quivers his lip about Cassie to Thelma and later uses the information she provides (I forget the line; something like: "she died right there, on the altar") during his duel with Ella; he guilt-trips her right as she's on the verge of killing him. I think he even purposely selected the location, but it's been a while since I watched the episodes so I could be wrong on that. Even when he euthanises Max, I believe it's because he's testing the limits of his powers, not proving he really can care. Malachi plays with people before (much like toys - in many ways he's more like a petulant child than a supposedly great seducer), but it's only after Ella starts dressing in pastels that he really gets a taste for it. He was as arrogant as his father and intended to be just as manipulative - he'd never have believed he was capable of being manipulated too, which only made him fall for it all the harder. Hence the overdramatic "love is blind" speechifying. In short: I don't believe he really did love her.* Welcome to the board, by the way. Nice to see someone new who actually posts. * Did we ever have a 'Did Malachi Love Ella?' debate? There's bound to be dissenting opinion on it, as with many aspects of Hex, but I can't find a thread on it. Most of the 'did x love y' discussion seems to centre around Cassie and Azazeal.
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Post by fenris on Mar 18, 2011 13:18:04 GMT
Whereas ella you saw the depth of her character, shes a strong independent woman, not only a witch and an annointed one, and i thought she was aa great role model for teenage girls, and i rather enjoyed the ella/malachi story line, although i agree, why did malachi change if he loved ella so much, what happened to his "love is blind" inspirational speech. Welcome to the forum, elladeeenchanted. In my opinion, Ella was a great character, brimming over with potential, who - sadly - was poorly served by Hex's scriptwriters. Introduced as an accomplished assassin who could take charge in any situation, within a few episodes they bizarrely transformed her into an indecisive lovesick teen (!?). To be fair, you can see what they were trying to achieve: Azareal's attempts to seduce Cassie had proven highly popular with a certain large section of Hex's audience (the Fassnatics, as I like to call them), and the writers were trying to re-create that by engineering a 'relationship' between Ella and Malachi. The problem was that those two characters were totally ill-suited to such a storyline. Ella had spent nearly four-and-a-half centuries efficiently slitting the throats of numerous innocent McBain girls to prevent Malachi's birth, so the notion that now he had finally arrived she couldn't bring herself to kill him was nonsensical.
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