🌘🪐Lucy🌒

The kinds of creepy that makes you feel unsettled and leaves shivers down your back.

She is beautiful like a china doll or a single flower growing in the ashes of a burned down forest.

She is Beautiful like an abondoned house that has been reclaimed by nature.

Anadil is like a haunted house, like a beautiful ghost running down a hallway in the middle of the night.

Anadil is like an insane asylum she is mad, she is creepy, she is strange but she is also interesting and the kinda beauty that makes you look ethereal but also like a dream you can’t quite trust.

That is Anadil. She is unpredictable and untrustworthy, she makes you doubt what is real and what is not and keeps you on your toes.

Cause I have just read so many people calling the film inspiring and an interesting interpretation and how it isn’t Americanised. Like just say you have never studied classics and shut up because you are so wrong.

Like the portrayal of the gods is terrible, it is so heavily Christian and Americanised that it actually upsets me. Like technically the gods aren’t actually in it at all like you don’t get any of there conversations or bickering. Athena portrayed was kinda offensive like you took this powerful goddess who defined the king of the gods himself to help an hero that she believed in and actively helped get home and turned her into a strange figure that appeared every now and then to pat Odysseus on the shoulder, like what.

They make the gods seem kind and justified rather than vicious and cruel like they actually are in the Odyssey.

The portrayal of Circe felt kinda sexist. Like you took this powerful beautiful woman and made them into pathetic middle age woman who seemed scared of men, like huh?

And Calypso I don’t even know what happened to her why did they make her into the Phaeacians like why is he telling her his story?

The purpose of the Phaeacians was to show good hospitality and an example of a civilised society and given how much emphasis they put of ‘Zeus’ law’ you would think they would include that. They were also a major example of Greek culture and how women should be treated, but no let’s just get rid of the actual empowering women and force bad feminism into other areas.

Odyssey is not portrayed as intelligent in the film other than the Trojan horses and that isn’t even an important point in the books. The whole nobody thing is cut, like what why.

They cut all the bit where Odysseus is in the wrong and is an idiot. Like what is with that, the bag of wind is removed, the scouting out his legal name, all the times Odysseus cheats on Penelope gone. They censored the book to make Odysseus look better, but the whole point is that he is flawed. The whole point is to tell Greek men that you can fuck up and still be a hero, Odysseus’ flaws is what makes him relatable, cause who hasn’t wanted to cry on an island for 9 years every now and then. It is saying that emotions are normal but should not be what lead your decision making cause then bad things happen.

The whole point of Telemachus is to show a boy becoming a hero, in the book you see Telemachus becoming more confident and strong as the book progresses, so having Odysseus save Telemachus is stupid cause in the book he doesn’t need saving he saves himself cause he is almost ready to be a hero. This is further shown in the book by him actually almost stringing the bow before Odysseus stops him, not because he can’t but because Odysseus doesn’t want him to be a hero yet as this bit is about Odysseus and his revenge not Telemachus’.

Sinon is a pointless character who only exists to justify the suitors execution by modem standards, in the book he is not needed because the concept of hospitality and ownership already justifies their downfall. But since Nolan is more obsessed who’s modern morals and imposing them then actually what it is about I guess he had to include him. Also the only time Sinon is mentioned is in the Aeneid in which it is said that Odysseus hates him so quite interested as to why the hell Nolan decided to include him of all people.

Christopher Nolan removed all the bits that made the Odyssey a GREEK book and replaced it was modern American morals and ideas. This idea that all he need really was his wife comes from the American views of a family unit not Greek values, while yes compared to everything other Greek hero Odysseus loved his wife more than any of the others he still cheats on her, and his homecoming wasn’t about her it was about taking back what was his and claiming his reward after being at was for so long. The reason Penelope is present as loyal and smart is so that she is a deserving reward for Odysseus and so that she is a suitable wife for him but also so she acts as a role model for how Greek women should behave, not because Odysseus and her were completely in love and all that each other needed.

Nolan should have just made up an entire hero since he seemed to not want to use any of the existing ones anyway.

It would probably be a very long singular chapter focusing on Hester and Anadil’s relationship.

So please tell me I am not alone. Like genuinely am I alone on this?

Neurally Good = Dovey

Chaotically Good = Agatha

Lawfully Neural = Rhian

True Neutral = Dot

Chaotically Neutral = August Sader

Lawfully Evil = Hester

Neutrally Evil = Anadil

Chaotically Evil = Eric

Cause think about it, it is entirely possible that Anadil’s talent is actually the manipulation and control of like all the ‘Never’ animals so like the Stymphs, Spiricks, Crogs as well as rats but just decides to not tell anyone about the other because she like rats the most and all never show your hand. And then controls the Stymphs into dropping them the wrong way round.

Now before you point out like all the plot holes here me out. We know that before Agatha good was really shallow and self centred and kinda corrupt right so it is possible that one of them could actually fit in with Evil. Also they are impressionable and easily manipulated children I personally think that given the correct environment they could turn anyone good and evil. Plus in the first book (book not film cause the film is so terrible and really messes up the next thing I am about to say) Agatha and Sophie are both very equally good and evil obviously this changes the longer they are in the schools.

As for the ‘but the teaches would have known they were on the wrong schools and switched them back’ would they? In the first book they are so heavy on the the school master doesn’t make any mistakes, because if word got out that it had made a mistake the reputation on the school would have been ruined and we see how what happened at the school can effect the woods in the second book with the boy girl dived. So I fully believe that if they had of been put in the wrong schools they would have covered it up in order to prevent absolutely destroying the reputation of the school and the divide between good and evil.

Thirdly the whole ‘you can turn someone evil but can you turn some good’ I think is entirely possible we see from the books that evil is just a matter of perspective like with Rhian and Rafal when they rewrote fairytales to make the evil look good and good look evil that actually once you hear Evils backstory and point of view they don’t actually seem that evil. Well given that Agatha was supposedly an ‘Ever’ in the tale of Sophie and Agatha and as we know the storian was rigged towards good we got a lot more of her backstory making her seem good when actually taken out of context a lot of her actions could be evil. I mean we see it happen in real time once people start paying attention to her she actually starts appearing more good not necessarily because she changes what she does but because people start on looking at her more closely.

Finally when we look at what Evers and Never were expecting to be at the time it is very possible that they were in the wrong schools.

Evers - pretty Damsels in distress who are very performative and believe in true love

Never - Independent intelligent outcast who don’t believe in love

Agatha fits the role of Never and Sophie fits the role of Ever

The school master is corrupt he was faslitating the narrative so was ever other teachers in the school, they didn’t actually care about actual good and evil, It wasn’t until Sophie and Agatha came and changed that narrative that we started to get real good and evil again. Not performative. So why would these teachers and this school that was so fake and performative care about putting the readers who we know are basically hated for being readers in to the school that don’t stereotypical fit.

(I am aware that that is literally the whole plot and the point of the first book but just bare with me)

But there are two characters who do care about the actual good and evil, two characters who constantly complain about how stupid it has become and who hate the fake pretty Evers and the pathetic Nevers, Hester and Anadil. They both lived in the woods both of them are fed up with Nevers losing all the time and they are both knows to be really intelligent I have no doubt that probably worked out this was in part due to how corrupt and fake the school for good and evil has become. They probably wanted to prove a point, know I don’t think that they knew that Sophie and Agatha deep down were meant for the other schools I think they just hated readers and wanted to get rid of them but also kinda expected them to actually last a while in the school and because sidekicks proving that the difference between good and evil was vanishing, or something like that.

They out of everybody had the most ability to do it, we don’t actually know how arriving to the school works we just know that Hester and Anadil were there before Sophie and Agatha became they were already been in the room. They could have of been there for days or even hours it is unsure but they likely had enough time to pull it off. Plus if they are roommates they have access the Sophie and the ability to convince her that she is evil helping to sell the bit. Like one of the key moments that ‘proved’ Sophie was ‘Evil’ was the fact she beat Hester, Hester could have just let her win. After that the School master got intrested and Sophie kinda failed the rest of the year and with the help if Agatha messed things up with Tedros so bad that she looked Evil.

As for everything else I mean the witches were at the centre of everything they had so much opportunity to cause everything. I mean all it took if for like one of them to know the Snake before they went to school and then just ask him to help. Also between Hester’s Demon and Anadil Rats they are a part of nearly every big thing that happened, and we know that they are smart. Especially Hester.

Now i genuinely also believe that while they started everything that they still also helped them like they do in the books just because they don’t want anyone to know also because they do actually care.

But think about it if they started or at least know about everything that happened before it happened it explains why the Witches are never actually in any real trouble throughout the whole of the book, like other them the prison in book 5 and the ice cell in book 3 and even then they don’t actually seem that scared or worried and they are both resolved very quickly.

I have said throughout the whole of this Hester and Anadil and not Dot because i can’t decide whether she would be in on it, not in a the coven doesn’t actually exist and Hester and Anadil don’t care about Dot kinda way but in a more they actually know that Dot is too good and nice to ever willing be involved in all of it, but I do think that they would have included her especially towards the end but idk.

Please tell me someone else understands what I am waffling about because I have been thinking about this for weeks and just need some kinda proof that it is not just me going mad. It is also the middle of the night and I don’t know how much sense and am making. There is also a small possibility that I have mentioned this before but if I have it bares repeating.

Sophie has the most plot armour I think i have ever seen on a character in any film and media what so ever. The only reason people think that she is powerful is because she is the main character. If you rewrite the books but removing her as the main character I guarantee that she will have no defenders.

“Oh but she is so relatable and complex you just can’t handle a complex morally grey character”

For starters if you relate to her I do not want to be your friend. Second the thing I hate most about Sophie is how the fandom and the characters in the book treat her. It is nothing to that she is complex it is because you guys call her a diva or a goddess and I am like no. No. No. She is whiny teenage girl who’s ego is far to big for head, who has been told her whole life that she is amazing because she is arrogant and self centred and blond. She is not evils greatest hope she is not the new face of evil she is just annoying. She has no talent other than making her ego grow and surrounding herself with people who share her delusions.

She is not powerful and I know I have already said this but it is true. The only times she appears remotely powerful is when she is being helped by the teacher and the school master. Even then Hester could have totally have taken her the only reason she doesn’t is because Agatha doesn’t let her and because she is a little busy trying to save the school and the old heroes.

If you put Sophie and Hester or even Anadil or even Dot or Raven in a one v one Sophie wouldn’t stand a chance.

Sophie only appears powerfully because she is the main character. That is a fact.

She is a big fish from a small pond that when put in a big pond is still delusional enough to believe she yer she is still a big fish.

Anadil is Caitlyn

Hester is Vi

That Hester and Anadil are a lot older then everyone else

the school takes between 15-12 years olds each year and we get the idea that most people especially Sophie Agatha and Tedros are around 12/13 so I like the idea that Hester and Anadil are 15/16 at the beginning of the books. Can’t decide how old for should be but I personally think she is the same age as Sophie and Agatha anyway

And that Hester and Anadil just make dirty jokes - Hester is the one who mainly does it and Anadil just understands them but it is sometimes the other way round - throughout the whole time to each other that goes over everyone else’s head

Until like after Tedros and Agatha get married and Agatha starts to understand them which she is surprised at because she didn’t expect the two people who were so against relationship to be making those kinda jokes to what she thinks is out of nowhere. Only to then be informed that they have been doing it for years.