Author's Note: This will be used for those who wanted to ask questions about the Miniseries Remake: The Necklace of El-Ahrairah.
For those who already read Watership Down Miniseries Remake: Necklace of El-Ahrairah and seen the actual miniseries, I wanted to answer the questions to The Sapphire One: How do you feel about Holly's death in the miniseries, did you think of it as sad, a noble heroic sacrifice, or unnecessary?
How did you feel about Hazel telling Bigwig to tell Woundwort that he guards the warren? For me, it robbed Bigwig of his big shining moment of loyalty, since in the movie he isn't told to say it, he says it out of his own choice, showing how far he's come, and by having Hazel put words into his mouth, it just feels like he told Woundwort that because he was ordered to. While it didn't make me angry or ruin the scene, and John Boyega absolutely nails the anger and courage in his voice, I feel could have worked more had the exchange had gone like this:
Hazel: "I have one final trick for you. When you are spent, when you've given all that you can give, that you guard them for Chief rabbit."
I know it's just removing the "tell them" portion, but it not only makes Bigwig's speech more touching and sincere, the "them" bit refers to Bluebell, Blackberry, etc, as there's a sense he's not just telling Bigwig to guard the warren, but to protect his friends with his life not matter what. How's that sound? And finally, were there any ideas or concepts you wanted to use in your remake, but got cut out?
So the first question to answer... When I first saw it, I was shocked and surprised that it was unexpected. However, watching the miniseries repetitively, I really liked Captain Holly so much that I was always devastated that I grew to like him. He died for protecting someone he loved. An act comes with a sacrifice, so I have to say he was heroic.
The second question to answer. I don't think it wouldn't be any different, because since Bigwig was in the Owsla he would know either way: being ordered to defend the warren or he defended the warren without given the order because of the situation. I don't think anything else would be different.
And the final question to answer... will in one specific original moment, but it was turned into a short story. I originally planned Kevin attempts to commit suicide in the remake, however it would gone too dark, that I decided that he should see happy moments during the peaceful times in Watership Down. Later, as it shows in the short story, he would have this nightmare in cold day that he attempts to take his own life, but he was than rescued before he could finish the act.
How I came to this decision was that Kevin enjoys music, mostly country music, and at times he would sing along to the song. Thethuthinnang has the talent to sing, which they both have a good chemistry together. I never know much about Thethuthinnang from the novel, however she's an interesting doe and of course loyal to Hyzenthlay. I even liked the scene when she sung 10,000 Enemies.
Basically, Kevin was being shrunk down to same sizes as the rabbits, while he was still human.
I thought it was nearly to the point where he would disobeyed Woundwart's orders. So I thought it was fitting that could be done sooner, especially how I mapped out with Captain Holly and Captain Orchis battle.
Perhaps she could manipulate or basically trick the Efrafan Owsla into thinking that they're escaping from another part of the warren or perhaps to come up with a story that something happened at the execution spot where Hyzenthlay could have been executed.