Finally got around to watching the 2010 Alice in Wonderland, and the last third was… a disappointment. There are at least five people who could have turned out to be the Jabberwocky, some less logically than others, but all heartbreaking. When I saw Absalom going into his cocoon, I was sure we had a winner.

But no… the Jabberwocky was just an anonymous ugly dragon. Alice was just the generic dragonslayer. I’m not saying we should have some fluffy ending where she’s taming the Jabberwocky instead of killing it, or something similarly vanilla, but a little more nuance. Or coherence. I got all these brief glimpses of genius, but they didn’t GO anywhere…. argh.