Evil Cass, switch on switch off: where is the REAL Cassandra’s arc?
I knew this was pretty bad from the start the moment she follows a random, magic girl met in a creepy evil house, having no goal in life and no purpose for the moonstone but... like... the atrocious writing here was still surprising.
She didn’t even know it was a demon or something with black magic, a creepy, little girl clothed in black hah? STUPID. Well, what was she thinking anyway???? Because now I really wonder! Please answer me Tangled writers!
She suddenly has a realization and becomes a normal Cass again? Now? Oh yes, I guess she finally realized the writers forgot to give her character a motivation... not to mention explain her “destiny.” She goes back to Rapunzel but ups, the writers refuse! Now do our bidding and destroy Corona please, be the ultimate villain!.
Yes, Rapunzel, you’re STUPID too - let’s talk about Cassandra’s “destiny” in a fucking play, how you “understand” her, yet you don’t even know what it is, nobody does. She can be patient, she can be diplomatic, but it was too difficult to ask Cassandra about her destiny and what it entails?????? I’m not even sure what the characters think anymore and where they have brains, they are just going through the motions... of something... things that already happened, things that we already knew DURING THE PREMIERE
Anyway, let’s erase Cassandra’s personality and build-up from S1-2, her history in Corona, her childhood with a better parent, take away the owl for most of the season as well as Cassandra’s wish to become a heroic, deadly fighter who matters. Turn her into an evil clone who talks about destiny and Gothel, let her do Zhan Tiri’s bidding FOR NO REASON. Because mama gothel loved me or whatever, even this piss-poor “motivation” seems weak after the recent episode... with evil switch on, evil switch off, evil switch on! AGAIN
LET’S DESTROY CORONA FOR NO FUCKING REASON REALLY. Like, WHY? WHAT’S TO GAIN HERE? Please don’t say “revenge,” Cassandra has nobody to blame for anything, only her own stupidity maybe, but then again, I don’t believe that’s the real Cass of S1 and S2 -> she doesn’t make sense
All of this makes me wonder... do the writers love Gothel more than Cassandra? As Gothel’s daughter, when they finally reached this part in season 3, she becomes nothing more but the extension of Gothel and Zhan Tiri’s pawn, is that it? So the writers of Tangled believe genes are everything then? She has become so evil and vain just because Gothel was evil? Do they really think it’s cool?
No, nobody wants you to be a BLAND bad guy like Gothel, only the writers apparently. :/
I never enjoyed the “evil” Cass here. She is bland, she is boring, even the black rocks become boring with her in charge!
The Cass I wanted to see is a tragic “heroine of her own story and destiny,” emotionally devasted and grumpy with Raps because *a certain childhood trauma* but still driven by PURPOSE, with her loyal hunting owl by her side! Owls are predatory night animals, so it doesn’t need to be the Ruddiger case where the animal companion outright betrays the owner at the hight of their villainy. Like, still a supportive animal and a voice of reason sometimes, but willing to follow orders in a soldiery fashion.
You know, THIS Cassandra:
This Cassandra may still be manipulated by Zhan Tiri, to an extent (but not something that makes her look like an absolute idiot!) or even become a genuine Zhan Tiri follower at some point to replace her unworthy, treacherous mother - if it makes sense in her arc, with rough experiences and some demonic corruption that happen to her throughout the season. In other words, the REAL Cass. More depth, more purpose, more lore behind her character, the moonstone and Zhan Tiri, less make-believe “destiny” and Gothel bullshit.
Not this petty, purposeless, power obsessed, Gothel-loving and vengeful in the name of long deceased abuser, naive permanent 5 year old from here and most of the season 3:
