Comments | kattahj: in which I overthink OUAT a lot

kattahj

in which I overthink OUAT a lot

Feb 25, 2013 23:13

I just spent several hours researching current military law, medieval military law, and anything else I could think of concerning desertion, to get a context for Rumpelstiltskin's actions in the flashback of Manhattan.

You know, I think the people who think fans are weird might just have a point.

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nell65 February 26 2013, 03:46:15 UTC

Clicked your link, cause I'm happy to read other fans doing obsessive fans of my fannish interests doing obbsessive things ( ... )

kattahj February 26 2013, 06:36:24 UTC

he wasn't a noble, and you had to be to be subject to the codes (such as they were) of chivalry, or able to compete in the tourney.

Yeah, that did occur to me, but I'd been reading so much that I couldn't quite untangle my thoughts. What really fascinated me was that desertion was so common, even expected. It seems to be a lot rarer now. From what I could tell, people would desert in droves and their kings would stomp their feet and go, "But you can't DO that!"

I find the question of dudely courage unmoving and uninteresting, and only pity poor Rumple that even after all these years it is such a weak spot for him. I expected to have more sympathy for Rumpel than I did. I think seeing an ogre and going "ohshitohshitohshit" is a perfectly reasonable response. But he did was he did as a premeditated act before ever seeing battle, faced only with the thought of his own mortality... and soldiers can't do that. I don't like war. I'm very dubious about whether there should be war at all. But I do recognize that soldiers can't ( ... )