Purple_Hummingbird on AO3 ā¢ Tangled and Tangled: The Series fan ā¢ Musicals fan ā¢ (All art of mine is not traced. I mostly use images for reference.)
If they add any new songs to the Tangled Musical, at what point in the film do you think theyāll add a song?
I can almost guarantee you that they'll add songs. I've never seen a Disney Broadway adaptation that didn't include new songs.
I'm sure they're reinsert "When Will My Life Begin (Reprise 1)," and I don't know where exactly they might add new stuff, but I did conceive of a song added to the campfire scene, where Eugene talks about being an orphan and getting into this book and becoming Flynn Rider because it all seemed like the better option. I know that Alan Menken and Glenn Slater have previously talked about Eugene keeping his emotions close to the vest, and not being the sort to burst into emotional song (which is why, in the movie, he has the one forced verse of I've Got a Dream and doesn't have any other songs until I See the Light, when his emotion finally gets to be too much for him), but how is the revelation of his true self not emotional?
The cruise musical has the entire prologue as a song ("Flower of Gold"), Flynn's introduction ("Wanted Man") and Kingdom Dance was turned into a song, instead ("When She Returns"), not to mention new reprises of established songs from the movie and one of "Flower of Gold/When She Returns".
Based on this, I would love a Flynn Rider intro song, maybe one by Gothel after she gets Rapunzel back, a mournful one by the king and queen as they go to lift the lantern on her 18th birthday, and maybe a song for Kingdom Dance if they also incorporate the tune from Kingdom Dance (I do like "When She Returns," but I missed having the Kingdom Dance tune itself). Maybe something when Eugene is racing off to Rapunzel's rescue? Or, like, a mashup of several previous songs?
This is really interesting. This is the one map we have drawn at a different angle, and
it implies that Corona is actually northwest of the Spire, rather than southwest, and that that was their direction of travel all along.
However
the implication here is that the break in the wall (just outside of Old Corona) faced west, rather than east.
(Also, I know the Doylist reason is because "Race to the Spire" was developed well after "Keeper of the Spire" was written, but there's no in-universe reason why they shouldn't have encountered Kresten Loch before.)
How do you think the story would have gone without Cassandra? Maybe Adira would found about Rapunzel and her story before the rocks found the Sundrop? Quirin wouldn't have been trapped? There wouldn't have been a battle that led Frederic to let Rapunzel go, what do you think she would have done then? Still followed Adira to the Dark Kingdom?
While I would have loved to see more Adira, I don't see why Cassandra's absence would have made Adira find Rapunzel in the tower. (The rocks found the Sundrop flower six months before Rapunzel left the tower after all.) Nor do I think Cassandra's absence would have stopped Rapunzel from meeting Varian. She just would have found him through different means.
Now, I'm just spitballing this whole thing, but I'm speculating that, without Cassandra, it would be Eugene who snuck Rapunzel out of the palace when she was feeling so stir crazy, possibly as an apology for proposing when she wasn't ready. In this AU, she'd have still been in her room when he came to talk and they'd have been able to hash all of that out and understand one another better much earlier. So Rapunzel and Eugene go past the wall together, find the marker for where the Sundrop was, and the rocks, Rapunzel touches them, grows her hair back, etc. The rest of TBEA goes basically the same, only now Eugene doesn't have that whole "Rapunzel is keeping secrets from me" thing that lingered through the rest of the movie and the first ep, because he was there for it and is one of the ones keeping it secret.
Now obviously Cassandra isn't there to take Rapunzel to Varian, but that doesn't mean that no one would tell her about him. So she and Eugene go to see this "wizard" and all the stuff with Varian still happens. But in this AU, they get Rapunzel out of the machine before the house comes down, since Eugene wasnāt spending all his time trying to have a secret that he wasnāt sharing with Rapunzel and Cassandra, and it's her magic hair that shields Varian from falling debris. Only now, Quirin is a witness to this. He sees first-hand that Rapunzel is definitely the Sundrop. So, concerned about his family and his town, instead of forbidding Varian from touching the rocks, he tells Rapunzel directly what he knows, but in private (he still needs to keep Old Corona calm, after all). So Rapunzel is able to relay that information to Varian, to help inform his experiments. This does not mean that absolutely nothing would go wrong with the experiments, though. Let's say Quirin still ended up getting trapped in amber during the storm. Rapunzel still wouldn't have been able to help Varian when he asked, but with a personal connection to Quirin, she may have gone to check up on him directly after the storm and discovered immediately and willingly that there was nothing she could do to free him at this time. But since she showed up and helped Varian right away, heās not so rage-filled.
So now we have Rapunzel, Eugene, Lance and Varian as the team working on the mystery. (Yes, Lance. I am not leaving my boy out of this retelling, and there is no reason for the things that happened with him not to have happened, since they were disconnected from the main story. In fact, he gets to be in MORE of the story.) With the information about the Moonstone and the Sundrop, they search the house for anything else they can find that might help. They find the graphtyc and Quirinās stored armor, all of them together. Only now, the black guard (idk what else to call them) are attacking the four of them. They flee to the tower, which falls when Rapunzel's hair touches the rocks.
She confronts Frederic, who locks her in her room "for her own good" (on her birthday!!!), and Eugene, Lance, Varian and the Pub Thugs help break her out. Without the end of S1 fight to face, Rapunzel just takes off with her crew. She doesn't need her father's permission to leave, she's an adult. She was following his wishes out of respect for him, but he clearly doesn't respect her enough to do the same. So they're out. They decide they need to go to the Dark Kingdom and get to the bottom of this black rock nonsense by any means possible. Except how are they going to get two horses (and a caravan? idk if they acquire that little commodity before or after leaving Corona) over the unbroken wall?
Now is where Adira shows up. She's there, in Old Corona (just like she was at the end of the episode). She tells Rapunzel what she knows about the Moonstone and the Sundrop (it seems to mostly coincide with what Quirin said), and she suggests Rapunzel try to connect with the rocks on a deeper level, queue the ending of S1, where she's holding onto the rocks and they bust the wall down for her.
Now they can head off into S2.
The beginning of S2 can happen basically the same, since Cassandra being there didn't have a huge influence on the plot. (We'll lose "Goodbye and Goodwill," though, and get "The Trial of Fitzherbert and Schnitz" instead.) Only you know what? Rapunzel never lost her connection with the Moonstone/control over the black rocks, cause that was never explained and was just for Plot reasons. Part of S2 is her learning how to actually control it, and her hair. We lose "Freebird," but have a similar plot (without them turning into birds) where Rapunzel is called out for insisting they do everything she wants to do and none of the little diversions that everyone else is interested in. She points out that everyone else wasn't locked in a tower for 18 years, and Varian is like, "Yeah, but I definitely never left Corona until now. I've barely set foot outside of Old Corona, in fact." Something something Rapunzel learns the value of actually listening to others and not insisting on having things her way all the time.
But you know what? Since Varian is here now and he missed his villain arc, how about if he's the one who gradually grows more and more issues with Rapunzel, because his primary concern is still his father, and hers is seeing the world and also following this trail, but the seeing the world part keeps causing her to stray off-course, and he's like, "Could you please focus?! Lives are at stake!"
And you know what? I had a dream once that would have been a super intriguing plot for an S2 episode where, while they were travelling, they came across a village that was suffering from a plague, and Rapunzel was really upset because she didn't have healing hair and didn't know how to cure them. This idea will be fleshed out and inserted somewhere into S2, because I say so.
So they follow the rocks and shenanigans happen. "The Eye of Pincosta" sees Eugene being the one to retrieve the ruby with Stalyan and putting closure on his own backstory instead of Rapunzel doing it for him. In fact, more of S2 genuinely focuses on him and his backstory. Perhaps Adira suspects who he is, but has no solid proof, so keeps it to herself until they get close to their destination. And Eugene would be like, "Sure, okay lady. I am not a prince." But TAH-DAH! He actually is!
Anyway, Varian is the one who takes the Moonstone because in the House of Yesterday's Tomorrow, Zhan Tiri told him it was the only way to save his father. (It has literally nothing to do with his hair streak. He wasn't "destined" for it, or have any Moonstone energy already in him. That design choice was foreshadowing, but not a literal tie in.)
So now we enter S3 without Cassandra, but with Moon Varian.
Edmund does come with them because he has no reason to stay in the Dark Kingdom, but Adira does not. She's determined to follow Varian and collect Hector and try to fight this force out here in the world before he gets back to Corona. But Varian can't get back to Corona as quickly as everyone else can (since they took a hot air balloon), and he's still not really out for revenge, he just wants to save his father. But when he finally arrives, from his POV, nothing has been done about Quirin in the mean time, and he loses it. He shows up to Eugene's birthday and takes him to lure Rapunzel to him. See, when he took the Moonstone, Rapunzel lost what little connection she had to it, so she couldn't do the Reverse Incantation to free Quirin. (She tried, it didn't work.) So thinking/knowing that the only way to save Quirin would be to join the Sundrop and Moonstone, he tries to take it by force. Big battle, Zhan Tiri gets freed from the Lost Realm, but wastes no time taking the Moonstone from Varian. Rapunzel manages to escape with Eugene and Varian in hand, Sundrop intact.
So now Varian will spend the rest of S3 redeeming himself in a satisfying, well-written way, working with the group to defeat Zhan Tiri, using magic (Rapunzel) and alchemy (Varian) combined, just like Demanitus did back in the day. Adira and Hector and, in fact, everyone who Rapunzel helped through S2 and S3 shows up to help in this final battle. Rapunzel gets her hands on the combined Sundrop/Moonstone, makes sure everyone is healed and well, frees Quirin, and they all live happily ever after.
Do you have pictures from Rapunzelās journal letting down my hair book or the craft book?
I assume by "the craft book" you mean Rapunzel's Guide to All Things Brave, Creative & Fun. And yes I do. I have every illustration from it. But Tumblr only allows ten images per post, so I'll pick ten of my faves.
Have you seen Tangled (the movie) a zillion times? Do you have it memorized backwards and forwards? Would you like a refreshing way to watch it that makes it feel new again? Hereās what I do!
The next time you watch it, pick a character - a main character whoās often on screen - and focus all your attention on them. Donāt let your gaze shift to the other players. Watch their small, subtle reactions to things happening.
Last night, as I watched Tangled for the 11th anniversary, I caught a couple little character reactions Iād never seen before because I chose not to focus where I usually do. Paying attention to Pascal when the cameraās not focused on him has made me appreciate him in the movie a lot more. There is so much extra story told in the little things, itās a fun way to see the movie with new eyes.
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