Bahubali Theme Post: Kattappa, Morally Crippled

Continuing our character posts, next up, Kattappa!  Introduced 4th in the films, after Sivagami, Shivudu, and Avantika.  And again, this is not meant to be the end all-be all on this character.  Just sort of an interesting leaping off point to consider him. (full index of Bahubali posts, including other character posts, is here)

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Bahubali Theme Post: Avantika! Our Female Kattappa

I’m just cruising along with these character posts!  Partly because, as I said before, they are more sort of discussion starts than the end all-be all.  Every single moment of character development has been covered in the scene by scene posts, this is just gathering together some of the more interesting thoughts in one place. (full index of all Bahubali posts, including the other character posts, available here)

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Bahubali 2 Scene By Scene Part 25: Nassar! JUST DIE ALREADY!!!!

Happy Friday!  The Battle continues!  I was thinking I would be done with my scene by scene posts by now, but I guess not.  Maybe I can do another surge today, and then I can come back for the ending and final summary posts next week.  We’ll see. (part 24 here, you can go back from there)

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Bahubali 2 Scene By Scene Part 24: Have none of these people heard of an amazing invention called THE LADDER????

More big battle!  My goodness, if this is the edited version, can you imagine how long it was to begin with?  Although it’s also strangely soothing to have all this big battle with physical fireworks after the emotional drudgery of the past few scenes. (part 23 here, you can go back through the archives from there)

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Bahubali 2 Scene By Scene Part 18: A Short Sad Stab

Welcome back!  I decided I wanted to get all the sad parts over with as quickly as possible.  So sad part part 1 was a few hours ago, now sad part part 2, and sad part part 3 will be going up in a bit.  And then, thank goodness, we just have the big old battle to deal with!  Which might wait until Monday, seems like you should all have enough to talk about with these three posts over the weekend.

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