Hellboy II
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jackHellboy II wasn't as awesome as I'd hoped, but was very good. It did a worthy job of following the original with new stuff, and was often funny, and interesting, and beautifully steampunky.
Nitpicks (spoilers)
However, in the climax, there were several things that just bugged me they didn't try earlier:
* Challenging Nuada's right to command the army. I felt sure they'd cry that as soon as he said "Does anyone challenge my right to command the army?"
* Klaus -- for a moment I thought he was going to take down the entire army one at a time. After all, if he could just take over another robot each time his host is crushed, it wouldn't matter which won.
* How about doping Nuala? Mightn't that knock Nuada right out?
* And once they had cured Hellboy, why didn't they just... go away? Did they just want to beat up Nuada, but Abe wanted to trade the crown piece for Nuala? Well, that's understandable, but we've no reason to think he would deliberately hurt her (although obviously he might).
* Why didn't Liz try nuking the army?
* Why didn't Liz melt the crown piece earlier? (fishpi correctly points out that Nuala might not have let them until Nuada turned up, at which point no-one knew where the piece was except Abe.)
Nitpicks (spoilers)
However, in the climax, there were several things that just bugged me they didn't try earlier:
* Challenging Nuada's right to command the army. I felt sure they'd cry that as soon as he said "Does anyone challenge my right to command the army?"
* Klaus -- for a moment I thought he was going to take down the entire army one at a time. After all, if he could just take over another robot each time his host is crushed, it wouldn't matter which won.
* How about doping Nuala? Mightn't that knock Nuada right out?
* And once they had cured Hellboy, why didn't they just... go away? Did they just want to beat up Nuada, but Abe wanted to trade the crown piece for Nuala? Well, that's understandable, but we've no reason to think he would deliberately hurt her (although obviously he might).
* Why didn't Liz try nuking the army?
* Why didn't Liz melt the crown piece earlier? (fishpi correctly points out that Nuala might not have let them until Nuada turned up, at which point no-one knew where the piece was except Abe.)
stranger here...
Date: 2009-12-27 09:24 am (UTC)I thought the whole thing about Abe keeping it a secret from HB and Liz was also kind of a logic!fail--especially since he wails 'he lied' but he didn't because he didn't actually promise anything, especially not any guarantees of safety! Good lord.
And considering that Nuala just wanted it kept out of her brother's hands, I don't see why she wouldn't have allowed it. Just...plotholes, ergh.