Kat Un-Confuse-ifies Things: Beautiful Creatures -- Good or Evil Lena

This is a feature where I take things that confuse people and try to interpret/explain them.

On the interpret side, it'll be mostly my theory (but based on facts, and only a little bit my gut feeling) and then on the explain side, I will use my ability to remember teensy details to help decipher confusing plots and characters.

Just a note, there are spoilers in this post. So if you don't want to know an ending or plot twist, TREAD CAREFULLY.

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Go here for my review of Beautiful Creatures the book.

A lot of people did not seem to understand if Lena was good or bad at the end of Beautiful Creatures. Personally, I completely understand this. Both the book and the movie were slightly ambiguous about this fact at the end.

HOWEVER, they both had an explanation for why she was NEITHER!

Here's the down-low on how these casters get chosen for good or evil. It occurs on their sixteenth birthday and the moon chooses their fate for them.

Well, this never happens for Lena. She is so freaking powerful that she covers the moon and it cannot choose her path. This means that her path is still to be chosen (whether for good or for evil). Since no other Duchanne's caster has had this choice in over a hundred years it's pretty new territory for Lena and she'll obviously have to figure out what this means for her in the rest of the series.

So, there you have it, Lena is neither completely good nor completely bad (huh, sounds kind of like normal humans/teens, what a strange allegory!)

Kat un-confuse-ifies Things: Kick-off post! (after credits scene of Pirates of the Carribbean: At World's End)

I decided to start a new feature where I'll take things that confuse people in YA, MG, or movies and interpret/explain it.

On the interpret side, it'll be mostly my theory (but based on facts, and only a little bit my gut feeling) and then on the explain side, I will use my ability to remember teensy details to help decipher confusing plots and characters. Hopefully I can get some guest posters too.

There WILL be spoilers in these posts. So if you don't want to know an ending or plot twist, TREAD CAREFULLY.

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So in Pirates of the Carribbean: At World's End there was some confusion about that scene after the credits.

You know, the scene where that 9-year-old boy and Kiera Knightly wait for Orlando Bloom to come back from collecting souls on the Flying Dutchman. So many people believed that this is just a one-day visit for poor Orlando Bloom. But I believe they are wrong.

If you listen to the lore of Davey Jones it goes like this: He was tasked with going onto the Flying Dutchman to courier dead souls to the afterlife for ten years. As long as Calypso was faithful and waited for him, he would finish his duty after ten years and another would take on the task. HOWEVER, Calypso was a little bit wayward in her affections and she skedaddled. SO, Davey Jones was cursed to courier the souls FOREVER, only allowed to set foot on dry land one day out of every ten years.

SO, since Kiera Knightley was faithful to Orlando Bloom and waited for him, he is now free of his duty and he can come home. So people who were sooo boo-hoo sad that this was not a happy ending can rest assured. It IS a happy ending, Orlando is home to stay and he can see his son for the first time (BTW, congrats on making a baby on your first try you two, way to be super fertile).

UPDATE: This is super wrong apparently! I watched Pirates of the Caribbean 5 (don't judge me!) and apparently he was SUPER cursed! Which would have really sucked except 5 kind of helps give closure.