Thoughts on Tangled the Series
Today I was thinking about why I decided to collect Tangled. I’m a natural collector, I love to collect things – once upon a time, I had a big Aladdin collection (I have a thing for locked up princesses and thieves, as you can see) – and the thing is… it’s the series. I fell deeply in love with Tangled because of the series (which I’m gonna call Tangled the Series, but I know it’s also Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure).
I already liked it a lot, don’t get me wrong; I see the light is my wedding song, and I already had quite a few dolls and figurines, including the 17’ bride. But I didn’t love it.
That is, until the day I found out there was going to be a TV show, showing Rapunzel’s life outside the tower, getting adapted to the world. This made me so happy! And every detail I read made me even more excited. The care about the art, the same voices, the songs, everything!
And above all, for the first time ever, a Disney Princess would be “real”.
She was going to be angry, and make mistakes, and make a fool of herself and have fights with her boyfriend. She wasn’t going to be the perfect model of princess I have dealt with since I was born. Not that I don’t like the princesses as they are, but I always wanted to see life after happily ever after. Not Aladdin or Hercules or The Little Mermaid style. Those series are cool, but they don’t really tell a story, it’s just a lot of different stories. I wanted more!
And damn, did I get it. So much more. What an amazing show. Worthy of the amazing movie it was based on.
So, there: this series made a 30-something lady into a collector and a die-hard Tangled fan. So, why it’s not a success with kids as well? It’s a cartoon, right? It’s on Disney Channel!
Well, I don’t know if this is a fact, but the way I see it, Tangled the Series is not really for kids. Some amazing mind created this story with a lot of layers and so much depth that it is more suited for teenagers and adults, and for some miracle Disney accepted it and decided that is should be put in production.
However, because it’s about a Disney Princess, people immediately assume it’s for little girls. And the girls like the show… to a point. But I think they were expecting a little more princess life, and in this sense, they are much better with Barbie or Sofia.
The Rapunzel in the show is all but a classic princess. Not only she’s barefoot and travels in a caravan, she has some serious issues to work on – doubt, self-doubt, uncertainty, betrayal, fear, anger, coexistence, injustice… and some crazy magic powers that don’t heal or create beautiful snow or are incrusted in a beautiful stone connected to the princesses of the past or to the sea. No: her “magic” is pointy black rocks that bring destruction and a huge hair that spreads around her head like menacing snakes when she wakes up. It’s ugly, dangerous magic that we don’t usually see connected to a princess.
I kind of got lost somewhere, but it’s just that there is so much to say about this show that I end up getting too excited.
In a nutshell, I love Tangled the Series and if Disney’s purpose with it was to sell merchandise, well, I did my part. However, I think this show deserves more love from Disney; a different kind of love. A different approach, different time slots. Try to get teens and adults into it, guys. I know we are not the main audience, and we usually don’t buy merch, but this show is such a treasure, it deserves more recognition. Spread the word, share this gift of empowerment and good storytelling.
And just give us a date for season 3. Pretty please!
(long text. so annoying. If you read this far, you are a dear <3. Also, sorry, English is not my first language)
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