Muaha. Now I get to talk about my favorite character.
I'd actually say she's a strong character. TO THE BULLETPOINT MOBILE:
- After being told by Arthur that her brother is dead, what's her first instinct? Revenge. And she succeeds in knocking Ash into the pit by hitting him with a rock, which is a decent show of physical strength and mental toughness. Even though she's intrigued by Ash she's also not willing to let him get away with being a coward or with shirking his responsibilities.
- Once she realizes her mistake, she tries to apologize to him repeatedly. He's a dickweasal in response (understandably, she just tried to kill him with a rock and ripped out a handful of his hair). She only hits him again when he insults her efforts to make up with him. This somehow results in slap-slap-kiss-kiss, because movie conventions. Either way, she has the decency to directly apologize to him to his face, which is more than anyone else in the castle seems to do, unless you count Arthur's apology in the director's cut.
- After having sex with the guy and falling for him and then being told in front of the entire castle that what they did meant nothing to him, she dresses him down in front of everybody and leaves him gaping after her (Everyone quotes the pillow talk line while conveniently forgetting he doesn't disagree when she replies with 'it was more than that'.)
- As a Deadite, she's tough as hell. Ash only manages to defeat her with clever (For Ash) use of leverage. In battle, she knocks him off his feet, confuses him with mimicry and almost emasculates him.
Sure, she has a couple of moments of weakness: cowering behind Ash in the chamber scene, hiding BEHIND a barrel during the winged deadite attack. But she's no weaker than Ash when he tries to run away from the force during the windmill scene (especially because he knows by that point in canon that that never works). Like I said: she has weak moments and so does he.
@Nick - I'll keep an eye out and see if they every surface with some kind of footage.
