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Topic: Virginia
A thread just for Virginia. What do you like or dislike about this character?

Karen

#1 Dec 22nd 2005, 6:33pm
May114
Virginia annoys me sooooooo much!!! I'm not sure why but I just can't stand her! I want to tie her to a cement block, gag her and throw her in a lake! either that or stick some flaming hot metal sandals on her feet and see what happens *laughs maniacally* ... *coughs* er... sorry about that
#2 Feb 18th 2006, 3:50pm
MoonLover68
Aww, she's not that bad! I think most people who dislike Virginia are really secretly jealous of her cause she got the wolfie, hehehe!
#3 Feb 28th 2006, 5:31pm
May114
oh, I'm not secretly jealous!!! I envy her!!!
#4 Mar 01st 2006, 11:19pm
MoonLover68
Join the club!
#5 Mar 02nd 2006, 9:26pm
Rhyno304
I just saw 10 Kingdoms and loved it (Netflix rules!!). Virginia to me seems...mercurial. I can never get a good read on what she is thinking. The weird thing is, at the beginning, she says that she wants to open her own restraunt, but we never see her cooking. So is she just saying that so that she has a life goal, or what???
#6 May 18th 2006, 6:45am
MoonLover68
I think she doesn't really know what she wants. I've always seen her as the sort of person who is stuck in a place with no visible means of escaping it. In a sense, she's 'waiting' for someone or something to happen.
#7 May 18th 2006, 5:52pm
Rhyno304
Ok, I can go with that, especially given her internal monologue right before Wendellpup jumps through the mirror: " I guess some people just have normal boring lives" (yeah, that's paraphrased)

Ok, we know her lack of trust stems from her childhood incident, and I guess that leads to her pessimistic/defeatist attitude, but what is it about Wolf that makes her open up? Is it how he keeps coming back? Or is it how he shrugs off the fact that Christine is her mother?

#8 May 22nd 2006, 7:45am
MoonLover68
Do you think it's Wolf who makes her open up? I mean, certainly he contributes, but at it's essence Virginia's story is about the loss of her mother and her subsequent realisation that said mother is not the perfect person she always longed for. I think it's a combination of things that helps Virginia become the strong woman she is at the end of the story.
#9 May 22nd 2006, 6:59pm
Rhyno304
I think that Virginia knew that her mother wasn't a perfect person. After all, she left her entire family without ever contacting them again. So I don't think that she thinks that her mother is an angel. However, Christine IS her mother and Virginia wants there to be SOME good in her.

Re. Wolf: He does not abandon her. Even when she tells him to leave her alone, he still follows her. I think that it is his undying loyalty that allows her to trust herself, to believe that she is lovable.

#10 May 23rd 2006, 8:10am
a certain slant of light
I agree with Ryan. There's a part in the movie where Tony's talking about Christine and he says, "I know you don't want to hear this, because you want to believe she was this great person, etcetera, etcetera..." (paraphrasing), which I can really relate to. This isn't going to be some angstfest, but it's a big part of why I relate so strongly to Virginia.

My father left my mother and sister and I before I was six. I'm well aware he wasn't the perfect person; he was an alcoholic, he treated my mom and my sister and me badly, he let his other daughter almost kill me. But I still love him, and I still believe there's a lot of goodness in him, and there's still a big part of my heart for him. It's weird, but no matter all the bad things he did back then, I can't believe him to be a bad person.

So just because you know someone isn't a fairy tale mom or dad, doesn't mean you don't believe in them or want to see good in them.

As for Virginia with out all the psycho-analytical crap, I adore her character. I relate with her so much, and her development actually helped me realize some things about myself. I think one of my favorite scenes with her is in the Huntsman's tree, when she stops Wolf from killing the Huntsman. I was so afraid I'd been desensitized of death and murder by television and all that crap, but when she said, "I don’t care! We're not killing him!" I realized I couldn't do anything less than what she did. You have no idea how wonderful that made me feel.

So yeah, I love Virginia, because I think she's a wonderful character with great development. I enjoy her reluctance and her devotion and her decisions, stupid and sane (except the not going to sleep with wet hair thing).

#11 Oct 26th 2007, 2:23pm

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