Feeling like a cross-over between the Pirates of the Caribbean and How to Train Your Dragons
series, The Sea Beast is a wonderful story about the legends of the wars between water monsters
and the hunters that go after them. But as it’s said in the film, “You can be a hero and still be
wrong.” So, how righteous are these hunters in their adventures to protect their homes?
I’m Kyle with Wickedbinge and this is “The Sea Beast” Good to Evil.
Starting off, we are looking at the characters who are noble and heroic. These are the Good.
Our gold medal of good goes to the stowaway Maisie Brumble.
Maisie starts her journey off in a children's home but sneaks out and
ends up stowing away on the Inevitable. Despite Jacob’s desire to send her home,
she’s able to butter up Captain Crow and convince him to keep her on the ship.
Maisie initially follows Crow’s and Sarah Sharpe’s orders in her excitement of being on the ship,
but then goes against them following Jacob’s words of concern during the fight with the Red Bluster.
When she and Jacob are shipwrecked due to Red, Maisie manages to prevent Jacob from killing
the beast after she has a touching encounter with it. She then questions if the stories of
the hunters have been wrong the whole time and wants to try to put an end to the war.
Maisie then manages to convince Red to take them to Rum Pepper Island, pulling
spears out of the beast’s hide along the journey. Maisie alongside Jacob tried to convince Red to
not fight the royal navy when encountered, but was injured in the process. When she recovers,
she attempts to attack Captain Crow for poisoning Red and taking her as a trophy
but is stopped by Jacob. She tries several times to convince both Jacob and Sarah to
help Red when the beast is taken captive, but it initially seems to fall on deaf ears.
In the end, Maisie manages to stop Red from killing Captain Crow after Sarah and Jacob
help release her and outs the royals for lying about the stories of the beasts.
She rallies the kingdom of Whiterock behind her to stop hunting the monsters and let them be.
Our silver medal of good goes to Jacob Holland.
The man who killed five sea beasts in two days, Jacob shows from the get-go that he cares about
his captain and his crew, being willing to take over the Inevitable once Red is taken down.
He often motivates the crew that being a hunter means having a great life and dying a great death.
He also reminds Captain Crow of the honor code of hunters when a fellow ship is under
attack from a different beast, coercing Crow to temporarily abandon his desire for revenge.
When the crew of the Inevitable comes to claim their bounty from the royals and are denied,
Jacob is the one to offer a contest between them and the royal navy to see who would take down
the Red Bluster first; if they take the beast down, the royals are to allow them to continue
their profession. However, if the royal navy is to take it down, then Jacob says that they
will abandon beast hunting as the royals wish. Jacob quickly forms a protector bond with Maisie,
unwilling to hand her over to Crow after the failed battle with Red for fear of what may happen
to her. He attempts to kill the beast after they are shipwrecked but stops at Maisie’s request.
Jacob also goes out and gathers food for the two of them while they’re shipwrecked.
He’s initially suspicious of Red being able to help with Maisie’s influence
but eventually comes around for the beast. He helps Maisie pull spears out of Red’s hide
and tries to convince Red as well to not fight the royal navy. He fights against Captain Crow
in an attempt to try to convince the captain to let the beast go
and eventually vows to never hunt sea beasts ever again, settling down as a family with Maisie.
Our bronze medal for good and the end of this section goes to Sarah Sharpe.
No first mate as loyal as here, Sarah dedicates herself to the crew of the Inevitable
and Captain Crow. She fights in the battle against the Brickleback and is ready to fight
when negotiations with the royals start to sour. After Maisie’s arrival, Sarah gives her a knife
to defend herself and reminds the young girl that she is to follow orders lest Sarah end up dealing
with her. Sarah also is the one to convince the captain after the battle to return to town in
order to repair the ship before taking on Red. She does this again after the failed battle and
tries to sway Captain Crow from making a deal with Gwen Batterbie but is shut down.
Sarah watches over Maisie after her injury and helps to free Red after Maisie manages
to convince her to do so, recognizing that the poison didn’t slow down the fight inside Red.
We now move onto those whose motives can be questionable but have some
sense of right. These are the Neutral.
At the top of this section, we have the Red Bluster or Red for short.
Red is seen as the largest threat to the seas and is responsible for Captain Crow losing his
left eye. This beast is extremely smart and tenacious, not letting a myriad of spears in
its hide slow it down and attempting to pull the Inevitable into the sea.
Red forms a bond with Maisie after it unknowingly brings her and Jacob to a deserted island,
realizing that the young girl means no harm. She still fights against Jacob
who sees her as a threat, but eventually warms up to him through Maisie’s influence.
Despite attempts to stop her, Red follows through with her assault on both the royal navy and the
Inevitable’s crew in order to defend herself after years of war. When she recovers from her poisoning
and is freed by Maisie and Sarah, she decides to go after Captain Crow but only stops when Maisie
tells the beast that killing the captain will continue the war between mankind and beasts.
Following after is the crew of the Inevitable.
This crew is made up of a multitude of people with varying levels of experience
but they all enjoy their lives as beast hunters. They occasionally
become doubtful about the length of their existences, but are motivated
by Jacob when he tells them that their scars and the thrill of death show their strength.
They also fall into similar doubts about Gwen Batterbie and her deals,
knowing that all their lives and the fate of the ship may fall if things go south. In the end,
they too are swayed by Maisie’s words and choose to stop hunting the sea beasts.
Rounding out the neutral category is Captain Crow.
Crow is considered a legend across the seas with the stories of the numerous beasts he’s killed
and how his one desire is to get revenge against the Red Bluster.
He took Jacob in when he was adrift at sea as a child and trained him into the hunter he became.
Crow’s motivations are consistently tested; he’s initially unwilling to save a fellow
beast hunter as revenge was nearly in his grasp but he was swayed to assist
with coercion from both Jacob and Sarah. Later, when Sarah tries to address the
honor code with him after the battle with the Red Bluster, Crow chooses to ignore it
and focuses solely on his path for revenge. Crow does care deeply for his crew as he
desires to have Jacob take over in the future and is willing to bring Maisie on despite her
being a stowaway. However, his desire for revenge overtakes as his main focus
and he alienates the connections he’s made in order to put forward his priority for revenge.
Finally, we come to those who prove that they stand by their wrong choices. These are the Evil.
Our bronze medal for evil goes to Gwen Battterbie.
It is said that no good comes from making deals with this woman
and that the rates she charges for her wares are not worth getting involved over. However,
she offers Captain Crow her creation, “The Hand of God”; a poisonous cannon-propelled harpoon
that can spread and kill the beast quickly. This weapon does prove to be effective to a degree
but at the potential cost of the lives of several people when the poison wears off.
Our silver medal for evil goes to Admiral Hornagold and the royal navy.
Hornagold is the one to inform the King and Queen that Captain Crow allowed the Red Bluster get away
as he chose to honor the beast hunter’s code, thus putting the lands in danger as it’s seen
as the most dangerous creature in the sea. He then tells Crow that he and the royal navy will
take over in hunting the beasts, rendering them obsolete. Hornagold is willing to fight against
Crow’s initial disgust at the decision but comes to agree to Jacob’s terms in the competition
of who’s to kill the beast first. We later see him and the navy attempt to
fight Red when she catches sight of them but their ship is smashed in half by the beast.
They also are initially ordered to fight Red when the poison wears off but don’t do
so after hearing Maisie’s words and the general deciding not to go through with the final attack.
Finally, our gold medal of evil goes to the King and Queen of Whiterock.
They were initially responsible for providing bounties to hunters who brought back trophies of
slaughtered beasts to prove the seas were safe, but eventually decided against that idea. The
royals said that by Captain Crow abandoning the slaughter of the Red Bluster, he was essentially
continuing to make the seas unsafe for travel and dooming the land. They then decided that
the royal navy was going to carry on the task so that they didn’t have to pay the hunters anymore
and thus make their profession obsolete. When Captain Crow rages about this decision,
the Queen is quick to order him to be arrested and the Inevitable be decommissioned because of
his outbursts. She is eventually swayed by Jacob’s suggestion at a contest to see who
kills the Red Bluster as he makes a point of the royals win regardless of who takes down the beast.
At the end of the film, it is revealed the royals have been providing propaganda about the dangerous
nature of the sea beasts for generations when the creatures were only fighting back
in self defense. They used this fear mongering tactic to grow their empire and influence,
but are disgusted when Maisie reveals this truth to the people. The queen attempts to influence
the military to fight Red one last time but to no avail, so she and her husband flee in cowardice.
That’s the list, but let’s award some sinner medals before we wrap things up.
The Darwin Medal unfortunately goes to Maisie.Though the idea of wanting to be a
beast hunter of the seas is exciting, it’s not worth stowing away for, especially as a child.
The Pride Medal goes to Jacob. He’s easily bothered by Maisie’s words about him not
currently being a captain and having no real authority over her presence on the ship.
The Sloth Medal unfortunately goes to Sarah. Though she uses her words to try to dissuade
Captain Crow from his revenge plot several times, she doesn’t act on them until the very
end when she could’ve done something sooner. The Wrath Medal goes to Captain Crow. His
main focus is on getting revenge and it only grows in intensity throughout the adventure.
The Envy Medal also goes to Maisie. She initially desired to get out of her life
at the children’s home. and become a beast hunter like her parents and heroes in her book.
The Greed Medal goes to the King and Queen of Whiterock. They didn’t want
to continue to pay bounties to the hunters and built their empire upon their wealth.
Finally, the Lust Medal also goes to Captain Crow. He wants nothing more
than to finally get revenge on the Red Bluster that it becomes his sole focus.
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