History Headscratchers / CinderellaIIIATwistInTime

** Perhaps Tremaine did it when she casted the spell on her, to humiliate her before [[spoiler:having her killed]]. After all, EvilIsPetty.

* Why is it that reversing time ''doesn't'' de-petrify the Fairy Godmother and turn her back to normal? I know for plot reasons, but that just makes no sense. I'm also well aware of the fact that [[spoiler: she is turned back to normal at the end]], but it still makes no sense whatsoever.

* Why didn’t the filmmakers have Anastasia sing a version of So This Is Love from the original film? This trooper would’ve liked to hear HER version of it?

* In the original timeline Bruno was crucial to helping Cinderella by getting rid of Lucifer so the mice could unlock her door. So shouldn't he have been at her side near the beginning of ''A Twist in Time''?

** Nevermind just Bruno, is no one going to address the glaring SeriesContinuityError with Jaq and Gus getting the key to Cinderella's room? In the original, it requires a lengthy stealth mission to get it back without Lady Tremaine being aware of it, but in this movie they already have it when the Grand Duke arrives. Did the writers just do that in order to allow the RuleOfDrama moment of Lady Tremaine talking Cinderella down and breaking her slipper?

** Nevermind just Bruno, is no one going to address the glaring SeriesContinuityError with Jaq and Gus getting the key to Cinderella's room? In the original, it requires a lengthy stealth mission to get it back without Lady Tremaine being aware of it, but in this movie they already have it when the Grand Duke arrives. Did the writers just do that in order to allow the RuleOfDrama moment of Lady Tremaine talking Cinderella down and breaking her slipper?
* This is more on a personal meta level, but why do people keep saying Cinderella is "badass" in this? Sure, she does take ''some'' initiative, about 50% of the time, and spends the other 50% moping, singing, crying and being helplessly dragged away from the prince. Heck, at first it's not even her first instinct to go to the castle, and when she's about to be shipped away, she never tries to make any effort to escape; she just loses all hope and starts crying before the prince shows up to rescue her -- but ''sure'', she's ''[[SarcasmMode totally not a]]'' DamselInDistress this time! And for that matter, in this movie, Cinderella's motivation to getting her happy ending back is essentially boiled down to "the prince", when in the original she just wanted a night off and the prince was just a bonus. Why couldn't she try to find a way to reclaim ownership of her family's chateau (like, starting an independent business or something), instead of moping about not getting to marry the prince? Lady Tremaine and the stepsisters had gone off to the castle, so they'd have other servants to boss around, while Cinderella remained at the chateau, so by all accounts, she was no longer their servant. If she was, they'd have brought her to the castle with them to keep rubbing it in her face.
** As this is your admittedly personal interpretation, This Troper is not going to try and heavily deconstruct anything, but will point out that (and this is not me personally taking a side one way or another on anything) that Cinderella ''does'' still stand up for herself more in this one, and as shown in both the original movie and the third, Cinderella is still a pretty normal young woman who, despite her optimism, has her limits and will despair when pushed too far, and is also just apparently not as much of a fighter as other princesses, so she's just not the type to be bold and proactive unless really pushed, though she does in this movie, so people are possibly just noticing that side of her that we get to see more prominently here. As for the prince thing, remember, she's in essence fighting to get her chance at a new better life ''back'', because her night out has given her a much more powerful opportunity to get away from her stepmother and never have to worry about her again, as well as becoming a princess (also, just pointing out, Cinderella may not have the opportunity to start her own independent business, if that's even possible for her at the time period she is in, at least not off the cuff). Essentially, Cinderella is spending the movie fighting for the best opportunity for a better life that is immediately presented to her from her perspective, and going through the emotional rollercoaster that facing that and opposition to it would cause...and she could possibly also just be worried about what her stepmother and stepsisters would ''do'' with influencing the kingdom and having Anastasia marry the Prince by trickery. She is a very selfless girl, so it could've occurred to her that letting the Prince marry the wrong girl and how that might end up affecting everyone else just because she's now off the hook from her own awful life is kind of selfish, so she's willing to risk her own chance to more easily escape her circumstances in order to both help herself and others, and make sure things are better for everybody, which if you look at it that way, is both [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Heartwarming/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime heartwarming]] and pretty [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Awesome/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime awesome]].
* And on a slightly different subject... Why wasn't this movie about ''Drizella'''s HeelFaceTurn, rather than Anastasia's? Why does Anastasia get two different chances at redemption and Drizella gets none, even though they were essentially the same character in the original film?
** I'm guessing they were trying to pay service to certain versions of the original tale, which did have one of the stepsisters behave significantly less wickedly than her sister and mother. Besides, from what I recall, the stakes are a lot higher in this film than in the first sequel, so it's easier to buy Anastasia's HeelFaceTurn when she's actually giving up something to help Cinderella, rather than her being EasilyForgiven like in ''Cinderella II''.
* More "Fridge Hilarity" than anything else, but Lady Tremaine is ''awfully'' confident when the time-reversal starts with her statement that "nobody knows except us." ''There hadn't been any confirmation of that yet.'' Imagine if she'd been ''wrong'' and everyone retained their original memories.

** As this is your admittedly personal interpretation, This Troper is not going to try and heavily deconstruct anything, but will point out that (and this is not me personally taking a side one way or another on anything) that Cinderella ''does'' still stand up for herself more in this one, and as shown in both the original movie and the third, Cinderella is still a pretty normal young woman who, despite her optimism, has her limits and will despair when pushed too far, and is also just apparently not as much of a fighter as other princesses, so she's just not the type to be bold and proactive unless really pushed, though she does in this movie, so people are possibly just noticing that side of her that we get to see more prominently here. As for the prince thing, remember, she's in essence fighting to get her chance at a new better life ''back'', because her night out has given her a much more powerful opportunity to get away from her stepmother and never have to worry about her again, as well as becoming a princess (also, just pointing out, Cinderella may not have the opportunity to start her own independent business, if that's even possible for her at the time period she is in, at least not off the cuff). Essentially, Cinderella is spending the movie fighting for the best opportunity for a better life that is immediately presented to her from her perspective, and going through the emotional rollercoaster that facing that and opposition to it would cause...and she could possibly also just be worried about what her stepmother and stepsisters would ''do'' with influencing the kingdom and having Anastasia marry the Prince by trickery. She is a very selfless girl, so it could've occurred to her that letting the Prince marry the wrong girl and how that might end up affecting everyone else just because she's now off the hook from her own awful life is kind of selfish, so she's willing to risk her own chance to more easily escape her circumstances in order to both help herself and others, and make sure things are better for everybody, which if you look at it that way, is both [[HeartwarmingMoments Heartwarming]] and pretty [[MomentOfAwesome Awesome]].

** As this is your admittedly personal interpretation, This Troper is not going to try and heavily deconstruct anything, but will point out that (and this is not me personally taking a side one way or another on anything) that Cinderella ''does'' still stand up for herself more in this one, and as shown in both the original movie and the third, Cinderella is still a pretty normal young woman who, despite her optimism, has her limits and will despair when pushed too far, and is also just apparently not as much of a fighter as other princesses, so she's just not the type to be bold and proactive unless really pushed, though she does in this movie, so people are possibly just noticing that side of her that we get to see more prominently here. As for the prince thing, remember, she's in essence fighting to get her chance at a new better life ''back'', because her night out has given her a much more powerful opportunity to get away from her stepmother and never have to worry about her again, as well as becoming a princess (also, just pointing out, Cinderella may not have the opportunity to start her own independent business, if that's even possible for her at the time period she is in, at least not off the cuff). Essentially, Cinderella is spending the movie fighting for the best opportunity for a better life that is immediately presented to her from her perspective, and going through the emotional rollercoaster that facing that and opposition to it would cause...and she could possibly also just be worried about what her stepmother and stepsisters would ''do'' with influencing the kingdom and having Anastasia marry the Prince by trickery. She is a very selfless girl, so it could've occurred to her that letting the Prince marry the wrong girl and how that might end up affecting everyone else just because she's now off the hook from her own awful life is kind of selfish, so she's willing to risk her own chance to more easily escape her circumstances in order to both help herself and others, and make sure things are better for everybody, which if you look at it that way, is both [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Heartwarming]] and pretty [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Awesome]].

** As this is your admittedly personal interpretation, This Troper is not going to try and heavily deconstruct anything, but will point out that (and this is not taking a side one way or another on anything) that Cinderella ''does'' still stand up for herself more in this one, and as shown in both the original movie and the third, Cinderella is still a pretty normal young woman who, despite her optimism, has her limits and will despair when pushed too far, and is also just apparently not as much of a fighter as other princesses, so she's just not the type to be bold and proactive unless really pushed, though she does in this movie, so people are possibly just noticing that side of her that we get to see more prominently here. As for the prince thing, remember, she's in essence fighting to get her chance at a new better life ''back'', because her night out has given her a much more powerful opportunity to get away from her stepmother and never have to worry about her again, as well as becoming a princess (also, just pointing out, Cinderella may not have the opportunity to start her own independent business, if that's even possible for her at the time period she is in, at least not off the cuff). Essentially, Cinderella is spending the movie fighting for the best opportunity for a better life that is immediately presented to her from her perspective, and going through the emotional rollercoaster that facing that and opposition to it would cause...and she could possibly also just be worried about what her stepmother and stepsisters would ''do'' with influencing the kingdom and having Anastasia marry the Prince by trickery. She is a very selfless girl, so it could've occurred to her that letting the Prince marry the wrong girl and how that might end up affecting everyone else just because she's now off the hook from her own awful life is kind of selfish, so she's willing to risk her own chance to more easily escape her circumstances in order to both help herself and others, and make sure things are better for everybody, which if you look at it that way, is both [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Heartwarming]] and pretty [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Awesome]].

** I'm guessing they were trying to pay service to certain versions of the original tale, which did have one of the stepsisters behave significantly less wickedly than her sister and mother. Besides, from what I recall, the stakes are a lot higher in this film than in the first sequel, so it's easier to buy Anastasia's HeelFaceTurn when she's actually giving up something to help Cinderella, rather than her being EasilyForgiven like in ''Cinderella II''.

* And on a slightly different subject... Why wasn't this movie about ''Drizella'''s HeelFaceTurn, rather than Anastasia's? Why does Anastasia get two different chances at redemption and Drizella gets none, even though they were essentially the same character in the original film?

** Nevermind just Bruno, is no one going to address the glaring continuity error with Jaq and Gus getting the key to Cinderella's room? In the original, it requires a lengthy stealth mission to get it back without Lady Tremaine being aware of it, but in this movie they already have it when the Grand Duke arrives. Did the writers just do that in order to allow the RuleOfDrama moment of Lady Tremaine talking Cinderella down and breaking her slipper?

** Nevermind just Bruno, is no one going to address the glaring continuity error with Jaq and Gus getting the key to Cinderella's room? In the original, it requires a lengthy stealth mission to get it back without Lady Tremaine being aware of it, but in this movie they already have it when the Grand Duke arrives.

** Nevermind just Bruno, is no one going to address the glaring continuity error with Jaq and Gus getting the key to Cinderella's room?

* This is more on a personal meta level, but why do people keep saying Cinderella is "badass" in this? Sure, she does take ''some'' initiative, about 50% of the time, and spends the other 50% moping, singing, crying and being helplessly dragged away from the prince. Heck, at first it's not even her first instinct to go to the castle, and when she's about to be shipped away, she never tries to make any effort to escape; she just loses all hope and starts crying before the prince shows up to rescue her -- but ''sure'', she's ''[[SarcasmMode totally not a]]'' DamselInDistress this time! And for that matter, in this movie, Cinderella's motivation to getting her happy ending back is essentially boiled down to "the prince", when in the original she just wanted a night off and the prince was just a bonus. Why couldn't she try to find a way to reclaim ownership of her family's chateau (like, starting an independent business or something), instead of moping about not getting to marry the prince? Lady Tremaine and the stepsisters had gone off to the castle, so they'd have other servants to boss around, while Cinderella remained at the chateau, so by all accounts, she was no longer their servant. If she was, they'd have brought her to the castle with them to keep rubbing it in her face.

* This is more on a personal meta level, but why do people keep saying Cinderella is "badass" in this? Sure, she does take ''some'' initiative, about 50% of the time, and spends the other 50% moping, singing, crying and being helplessly dragged away from the prince. Heck, at first it's not even her first instinct to go to the castle, and when she's about to be shipped away, she never tries to make any effort to escape; she just loses all hope and starts crying before the prince shows up to rescue her -- but ''sure'', she's [[SarcasmMode totally not a]] DamselInDistress this time! And for that matter, in this movie, Cinderella's motivation to getting her happy ending back is essentially boiled down to "the prince", when in the original she just wanted a night off and the prince was just a bonus. Why couldn't she try to find a way to reclaim ownership of her family's chateau (like, starting an independent business or something), instead of moping about not getting to marry the prince? Lady Tremaine and the stepsisters had gone off to the castle, so they'd have other servants to boss around, while Cinderella remained at the chateau, alone with her animal friends.

* This is more on a personal meta level, but why do people keep saying Cinderella is "badass" in this? Sure, she does take some initiative, about 50% of the time, and spends the other 50% moping, singing and crying. Heck, at first it's not even her first instinct to go to the castle, and when she's about to be shipped away, she never tries to make any effort to escape; she just loses all hope and starts crying before the prince shows up to rescue her -- but ''sure'', she's [[SarcasmMode totally not a ]] DamselInDistress this time! And for that matter, in this movie, Cinderella's motivation to getting her happy ending back is essentially boiled down to "the prince", when in the original she just wanted a night off and the prince was just a bonus. Why couldn't she try to find a way to reclaim ownership of her family's chateau (like, starting an independent business or something), instead of moping about not getting to marry the prince? Lady Tremaine and the stepsisters had gone off to the castle, so they'd have other servants to boss around, while Cinderella remained at the chateau, alone with her animal friends.

** He probably wouldn't have been much use getting into the castle. The mice can sneak in and the birds can fly up to the higher floors. The dog would easily be found and thrown out.

* In the original timeline Bruno was crucial to helping Cinderella by getting rid of Lucifer so the mice could unlock her door. So shouldn't he been at her side near the beginning of ''A Twist in Time''?

* In the original timeline Bruno was crucial to helping Cinderella by getting rid of Lucifer so the mice could unlock her door. So shouldn't he haven been at her side near the beginning of ''A Twist in Time''?

* Why is it that reversing time ''doesn't'' de-petrify the Fairy Godmother and turn her back to normal? I know for plot reasons, but that just makes no sense. I'm also well aware of the fact that [[spoiler: she is turned back to normal at the end]], but it still makes no sense whatsoever.

* How does reversing time ''not'' de-petrify the Fairy Godmother? I know plot reasons, but that just makes no sense. How does reversing time ''not'' return the Fairy Godmother to normal?! I know [[spoiler: she was turned back at the end,]], but it still makes no sense whatsoever.

* Why doesn't reversing time ''not'' de-petrify the Fairy Godmother? I know plot reasons, but that just makes no sense. How does reversing time ''not'' return the Fairy Godmother to normal?! I know [[spoiler: she was turned back at the end,]], but it still makes no sense whatsoever.

* How does reversing time ''not'' de-petrify the Fairy Godmother. I know plot reasons, but that just makes no sense.

** Perhaps Tremaine did it when she casted the spell on her, to humiliate her before [[spoiler:having her killed]]. After all, EvilIsPetty.

* How did Cinderella's wedding dress get torn when she was teleported into the demonic pumpkin carriage?