Neverland

[seriousfic]

I'll give this miniseries props: Even if you just know there's going to be tons of Jimmy/Peter shippers (as in the middle-aged father figure and his adolescent ward, yes), it takes until the last ten minutes to get really stupid. Then, in rapid succession:

A. Hook manages to cut off his own hand. I know, right? Even though one of the things you'd think any Peter Pan prequel (pecks a patch of pickled peppers) would know to show would be Peter cutting off Hook's hand and feeding it to a crocodile. Yeah, in the book, Peter's kinda a sociopath. Sorry about that, childhoods.

B. Said crocodile also eats a pocket watch, which I guess is supposed to provide the trademark warning sound of the crocodile. A pocket watch.

C. Someone says to new-amputee Hook "If we get out of this, what are you going to use for a hand, Hook?" I swear to God, Jimmy turns to the camera and gives the audience a look like "sheesh, that was bad."

D. Peter gives a rousing speech to the Lost Boys about how they'll stay in Neverland. "We own this world, pure and simple," he says in the middle of a bunch of Indians who've been living there for a hundred years. "Oh yeah, this will end well," you can imagine them saying.

ETA: Also, Hook manages to KO Peter by throwing said pocket watch at him. Under-handed. Even Captain Kirk would say that's an implausible fighting technique.

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[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

In spite of some stupidity in the first half, such as none of the pirates in 200 years coming up with Jimmy's simple strategy of following the Indian boats to see where they lead, I was fairly impressed with how well it came off, although much of that had to do with Rhys Ifans' formidable performance.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

I'm more impressed with how seaworthy those boats were after two hundred years. Even the candles still have wax! And they haven't run out of bullets/gunpowder!

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I equated that to the hand-wavey-esque nature of time-passes-but-not-really in Neverland, which, like the nature of the alternate timestream inhabited by older Amy Pond in "The Girl Who Waited," only makes sense if you don't give it any thought whatsoever. The Indian infant who's more than a century old, for example, struck me as being a stunning example of fridge horror.

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

... Which, really, is kind of a problem with trying to hang a pseudo-scientific hat on something that was never intended to be more than pure fantasy in the first place. I actually would have welcomed an explanation that says that because of the whatsit properties of the orb, things that are transported through it tend to default to whatever forms they had whenever they went through it, and that way, if Hook must lose his hand for reasons that have nothing to do with Peter cutting it off, you could say that he was, I don't know, trying to force the orb to do his bidding, possibly to try and send Peter back home, which would make Peter indirectly responsible but would also give it a noble tragedy. Then again, I'm clearly giving this more thought than the writers sooo ...

Hook

[(Anonymous)]

Hook was so into the fight he didn't notice Peter had the Dagger up. In the begining of the miniseries he told a swordsman to always watch the sword. Hook didn't follow his own advice.