#and when maria returns and the baroness sees she's been outwitten she - get this - bows out gracefully
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allthetropes · 9 months ago
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some of you folks were NOT listening to the Baroness Schneider when she was talking to Captain Von Trapp and it shows
#as far as villains go she was actually a real one#i mean she was also in a movie with nazis so its hard for her to be a real villain under those circumstances#but still#sound of music#anyway it's gay-org like the baroness said#also not to go on a tangent#but for rEAL baroness schneider was a real homie and i appreciate her for that#like YES she planned on putting those kids into boarding school but im gonna be real those kids needed more structure#if they could have been in a mixed boarding school so they were all together that would have been perf#also the baroness is a wealthy woman of class she's not going to educate mere children#even if they were her own she wouldn't it wouldn't be acceptable#and yes i accept that she acted in her own self-interests when she talked to maria#but consider this she never lied to maria#she may have played the innocent but there was no knowing how maria would react she didnt know maria well enough#so throwing maria that bone and seeing whether maria would gnaw or swim away wasn't like unfair or anything#and when maria returns and the baroness sees she's been outwitten she - get this - bows out gracefully#much more gracefully than maria did running away the way she did#also let's not imagine the baroness is marrying him for his money or anything she's richer than he is she wants to marry him fOR HIM#(who doesn't tho he's not called captain van snacc for nothing)#the baroness may be shrewd but she's not precisely evil#for the sake of the plot she wasn't a 'goodie' but she also wasn't a 'baddie' and i appreciate that nuance#the writers allowed her to be just a woman who wants what she wants and knows when she's beaten to the punch#that's some protofeminism for hollywood qf#anyway to come right back aroung it's gAYORG#thank and goodnight
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