So, I've been thinking about the Princess Bride...

[conuly]

The scene where Westley is complaining to Buttercup about her lack of faith in him. Whine, whine, whine.

And then it occurs to me. Yes, Westley, Mr. I-rob-and-kill-people-for-money, in all this time, you were so much in love, you couldn't've dropped her a letter? A quick note saying "Dear Buttercup. I'm not dead. I might get killed in the morning, but then again, I might not. Hard to say. Do me a favor and water my ficus. Thanks. Yrs, Dread Pirate Roberts Westley."

I mean, would that have been so hard? He could've had one of the fired pirate crew members go over with a message or something, or dropped some parchment in a bottle, or asked that old marshmallow, The Pirate Formerly Known as Roberts, and Ryan Before That to kidnap her or something.

Westley's a bastard. Really.

On the other hand, this probably is why he looks a lot better as a pirate than as a farmboy. Because he's got that bad boy mystique going.

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[conuly]

And then he comes back, and he saves her life... that's sweet. But did he have to do it so dramatically. Why not go out and meet her in the woods himself? And what's with the mask? Is it so important that nobody knows who he is?

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Exactly... Also, I know she's not the brightest, but how could she fail to recongnize him in one way or another? If not by the lower half of his face (let's face it, masks don't do *that* much for concealment) then at least by his height, voice, the way he moved, etc. ...

What I also always wondered: why was Humperdink so obsessed with having an actual corpse of the "kidnapped" Princess? Why not just use the scrap of clothing from Guilder to claim they had kidnapped her, begin the war he wanted so badly, and let everybody assume the enemy country had disposed of her body in a swamp or something? (I could point out obvious parallels in what our government has gotten away with regarding wars they wished to wage, of course, but I won't. ;)