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.

Comments

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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.

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.