YMMV / The Sorcerer's Daughter

• Alternate Character Interpretation: In the ballet, Siegfried pledging his love to Odile sealed Odette’s curse, but in the book the curse has no clause about One True Love or anything of that kind and simply can’t be lifted until Rothbart lifts it himself or loses his power. That makes Rothbart’s whole plot of sending Odile to the ball rather convoluted and unnecessary. Was it just For the Evulz? Was it to provoke Siegfried into fighting him (since Rothbart was only too happy to get rid of his magical powers)? Or maybe he was also jealous of the prince's possible Rescue Romance with Odette and needed to prove at least to himself that Siegfried wasn't so much in love with her?
• Moral Event Horizon: Gottwald Limerich is ready to let hundreds be killed by the dragon to make Odette marry him.
• Complete Monster: Count Gottwald Limerich is a proud, ambitious nobleman who secretly practices magic. He uses his magic powers to frame The Good King for sorcery and send him to the stake; the widowed queen soon goes mad with guilt and dies. In the castle Limerich inherits from his wizard mentor, there is a dragon's egg that will soon hatch, and Limerich sees the chances it gives him. So fifteen years after sending King Roberto to the stake, Limerich arranges the poisoning of his own nephew Prince Siegfried to inherit his throne and then, magically disguising himself as repented sorcerer Rothbart, kidnaps Siegfried's cousin Odette. Unless she agrees to marry him and lets him ascend to the throne, Limerich will have the now-hatched enormous dragon eventually destroy and burn down the entire country. After Odette manages to steal the arrows and escape his castle, Limerich starts brewing a potion that would make all his enemies kill each other in a fit of madness.
• Fridge Brilliance: It's implied Limerich could have had a hand in Karl and Gertrude's sudden early deaths. However, he doesn't even try to kill Siegfried with magic, opting to use poison instead. From Rothbart, we know that truly kind people can't be harmed with magic – which means that for all his Hard-Drinking Party Boy ways, Siegfried has his heart in the right place from the start, and Limerich realizes it.