Haunted Hearse wrote:
mikeswine87 wrote:
The stretching portraits aren't really to be taken literally.


Somebody should tell the imagineers.  I can't think of a single good reason to identify the lady holding the rose with the bride in the attic.  This whole idea of attempting to create a story for the HM, is as lame as the addition of characters from the POTC movies, to the POTC attraction.
I'm not a Constance fan, but I will come out to defend the logic of the whole thing from time to time.  The upper parts of the stretchroom portraits are "real."  The elongated lower part is the result of ghostly manipulation intended to disorient you (is it actually happening, or are you hallucinating?).  That ghostly part is not "real."  Dignitaries do not stand around in their underwear on powder kegs.  Businessmen do not go out into the swamp and form human totem poles.  And Constance did not commission a portrait of her last husband with a hatchet in his head, and then sit around on the gravestone.  One of the support poles for Ally Gal's rope is anchored in a mountain range in the far distance (Salvador Dali, phone your office)!  So it's only the "real" upper part of the portrait that corresponds to the Constance wedding portrait.  As for the plausibility of Connie's crime spree: Convincing sob story about hubby #1's death on wedding night.  Fell in a river or something.  Body never recovered.  With hubby #2 killed, she sleeps with the judge and police inspector and there are no records of an investigation.  With #3, #4, #5 she has accumulated enough money to buy cops and judges.  As for why her suitors were not more suspicious, she's a sexpot.  They throw their brains away and believe her flimsy, far-fetched explanations about earlier hubs.  The whole thing is remarkable, even amazing, but far from impossible.  As for the age difference:  Connie lived to be an older woman and died.  Her ghost appears as a young bride because that's when the earthly "unfinished business" took place that dooms her to haunt.  That's when the unavenged murders happened, not at the time of her death.

I may not like Connie much, but I can't find any serious logical problems with her incorporation into the HM.