The "kraken baby" sequence that was cut
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:08 pm
To recap for people who haven't seen MR in a while, or never (I don't blame you if you avoided it, I did myself for a long time): At the end of the first story this one creepy lady is holding a baby covered in a blanket and is like, cooing to it and saying everything will be better now or something like that, then turns and walks away. On the DVD there is a short cut sequence where after she turns away, kraken tentacles writhe out of the blanket - it was a baby kraken.
Now...when I watched MR as is (without knowing of this cut sequence), I was EXPECTING tentacles to come out of that blanket. That lady was so creepy, and where did this baby come from, she only said she had children before, not a baby...I just seriously thought to myself, okay that's not a baby it's a monster. But then nothing happened, and that was confusing, because it was building up to something creepy that never happened. Then I watched the cut sequence.
The problem is...neither having the baby be a kraken or NOT having the baby be a kraken makes any sense to me. I mean, why WOULD it be a kraken, but like I said, it FELT like it should be a kraken. But then it wasn't. But apparently it was originally intended to be.
MY BRAIN. D: Does anyone else have any thoughts on this? I guess we have to take it as canon that it *wasn't* a kraken, but then why was that lady so freaking creepy?? Lol I can't help it, that whole thing bothers me.
Now...when I watched MR as is (without knowing of this cut sequence), I was EXPECTING tentacles to come out of that blanket. That lady was so creepy, and where did this baby come from, she only said she had children before, not a baby...I just seriously thought to myself, okay that's not a baby it's a monster. But then nothing happened, and that was confusing, because it was building up to something creepy that never happened. Then I watched the cut sequence.
The problem is...neither having the baby be a kraken or NOT having the baby be a kraken makes any sense to me. I mean, why WOULD it be a kraken, but like I said, it FELT like it should be a kraken. But then it wasn't. But apparently it was originally intended to be.
MY BRAIN. D: Does anyone else have any thoughts on this? I guess we have to take it as canon that it *wasn't* a kraken, but then why was that lady so freaking creepy?? Lol I can't help it, that whole thing bothers me.