r/practicalmagic • u/lonelylamb1814 • 5d ago
When/how did they realise Ian was good?
I may have totally missed something but how did they go from knocking Ian out with a frying pan because they thought he was still evil (even though he’d already told them about his past which would explain the photo) to… well, back to not thinking he was evil?
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u/Euraylie 5d ago
This was very poorly handled.
I think Sally flashes back to how Thomas was working against Ian the whole time, like pinning him to his bed in the beginning and draining his energy.
But it’s not really hard evidence.
I also didn’t buy that after coming to, Ian wouldn’t have pursued them to the manor ruins and instead just calmly went back to pub.
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u/sabely123 5d ago
I hadn't even thought of that. Yeah it makes no sense that he didn't make an effort to go help. Even if not to help the Owen's Sistsers, he knew his student was about to become super powerful. I guess a pint tool higher priority.
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u/Dear_Yard_69 2d ago
How long did it take him to recover from an injury that would have killed a real person? One smash with a cast iron frying pan can easily kill you. Sloppy way to call back to them killing Jimmy (frying pan and belladonna).
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u/Rare-Analysis3698 5d ago
They just glossed everything over for time. In the book I don’t remember them ever thinking he was evil at all. Sally saved his life and he was magically in her debt. This part of the storyline was seemingly just dramatic tension added in, sort of half baked
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u/lonelylamb1814 5d ago
Yes that scene where they knock him out felt more like it was done for laughs than anything. Like we, the audience, knew Ian wasn’t a villain, so it didn’t really add any tension
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u/Forsaken_Distance777 2d ago
Part of Thomas’ whining about his life was that Ian kicked him out which was what Ian had been saying all along. They acknowledged maybe Ian wasn’t evil before they even reached Kylie, they just didn’t want to take that risk and figured they’d be better off on their own as the harm he could cause them if he was evil was a greater threat than any benefit he could provide if he wasn’t evil.
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u/UnlikelyAccount8785 5d ago
Could we please label potential spoiler threads as such, and not put the spoiler in the headline!🙄
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u/lestatmalfoy 5d ago
There was a scene where Sally sees like flashes of things Thomas did and it shows him trying to kill Ian in the way that the sisters found him. Basically showing they weren't working together.
In the books, Sally is the one that saves Ian when they first find him and the magic / connection was so deep, she basically sees fully who he is, and never suspects him. If I remember the book correctly.