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| re: Did anyone ever come close to Joanna Gleason as the Baker's Wife? | |
| Posted by: robert_j 10:22 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Did anyone ever come close to Joanna Gleason as the Baker's Wife? - Chazwaza 03:20 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| It is not so much that the death is abrupt but that it falls into the "death by sex" trope. She has illicit sex and immediately dies -- the prince has no consequences. | |
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| re: Did anyone ever come close to Joanna Gleason as the Baker's Wife? | |
| Posted by: winters 12:30 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Did anyone ever come close to Joanna Gleason as the Baker's Wife? - robert_j 10:22 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Princes rarely have consequences 'Fallen' women usually do. |
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| re: Did anyone ever come close to Joanna Gleason as the Baker's Wife? | |
| Posted by: bmc 01:08 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Did anyone ever come close to Joanna Gleason as the Baker's Wife? - winters 12:30 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| I Always thought it would have worked better if the wife and Prince just kissed; It would make her death seem less like punishment, and wouldn't have scandalized the children in the audience. | |
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| re: Did anyone ever come close to Joanna Gleason as the Baker's Wife? | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 01:01 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Did anyone ever come close to Joanna Gleason as the Baker's Wife? - winters 12:30 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| This is a sad truth in our world. But I also do not think this is what the show is trying to say and I think it's pointless to project that onto the show or read into the timing of it. If it happened right after the "intimacy" with the prince, I could see it taken as a direct consequence in the world of the woods, or if she had decided to leave her husband because of it. But she has a whole lengthy song where she weighs what just happened and comes to appreciate her husband even more than before. That makes it all the more sad and upsetting when she is killed so randomly, and while alone, trying to get back to the group. |
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