Line #6 Recap/FilmRerollFrozen


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4	->''This week we are still WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}. Which came first: the lenses or the luge?''
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6	Episodes 5-7 of Podcast/FilmReroll. Based on [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 the 2013 Disney movie.]]
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8	Thanks to her own clumsiness, Princess Anna of Arendelle has accidentally ruined her sister Elsa's coronation, causing her to reveal her long-hidden ice powers and flee to the mountains. Now Anna sets out on a quest to find her lost sister and end the eternal winter plauging their country. Can she evade the blade-armed snowmonsters and troll-burning princes who stand in her way? And will Elsa ever bring Anna's snowman to life?
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10	Starring Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer as Anna, Kara Strait[[note]] credited as “Pitr Strait” [[/note]] as Elsa, Paulo Quiros as Kristoff and [[GuestHost Jon Miller]] as the Dungeon Master.
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12	Followed by [[Recap/FilmRerollSpeed Speed.]]
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15	!!Tropes:
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17	* AbductionIsLove: A platonic example, but the other players point out that Anna's method of befriending Miriam was essentially a kidnapping.
18	* AdaptationalBadass: Hans was pretty easy to take down in the actual film. Here, the entire party teams up to take him down.
19	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: This happens with Hans. He is still trying to kill Elsa and take her throne, but he never tricks Anna into falling in love with him (and -- by extension -- never outright betrays her). It's possible that he -- much like the Duke of Weselton -- is a WellIntentionedExtremist [[WrongGenreSavvy genuinely believing himself to be saving Arendelle from its evil witch queen,]] rather than the selfish, manipulative sociopath he was in the film.
20	* AdaptedOut:
21	** Oaken (since Anna never visits his store).
22	** Olaf (since Elsa doesn't create him during the ''Let It Go'' scene. Anna ''does'' ask her sister to bring the snowman she made to life, but she doesn't).
23	** This also happens to the sisters' parents. The campaign skips over the movie's prologue in which they die, making them both [[PosthumousCharacter Posthumous Characters]] here.
24	* AdaptationalNameChange / {{Expy}}: Falgore, Elsa's ice golem, is pretty much Marshmallow from the real movie, [[RuleOfCool except he's got swords for arms.]]
25	* AmbiguousTimePeriod: The players are a bit confused of ''when'' exactly the story is meant to be set -- it's ''meant'' to be at some point in the mid-nineteenth century, but the film is enough of an AnachronismStew that this isn't obvious -- leading to discussions on whether the characters are [[UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} Catholic or Protestant]], and whether certain things have been invented or not.
26	** OutdatedByCanon: WesternAnimation/FrozenII did later establish a timeline; Anna and Elsa's parents died in 1840, three years before the bulk of the film.
27	* AscendedFridgeHorror: It is acknowledged that Elsa's eternal winter would probably kill quite a few people, making it even more important for her to put an end to it.
28	* AuthorAppeal: Architecture. Jon explains building styles in depth and loves obscure architecture terms like "annulus" and "fumarole".
29	* BowledOver: The Stone Trolls use this tactic on the guards of Arendelle during the climax.
30	* BurnTheWitch: Subverted. Hans ''tries'' to do this to the Trolls, [[DidntThinkThisThrough only to realise that stone creatures are harder to light on fire than he thought.]]
31	* CanonForeigner: Miriam the peasant girl and Bors the servant.
32	* CrossCastRole: PlayedWith. Elsa was the first out of the many female characters Kara Strait — then going by “Pitr” — has played on the show, which anteceded other Rerollers being crosscast later on. However, ''she'' eventually came out as Transgender, changing her name not too long thereafter. (Though she also claimed to not consider her old name -- which she had ''also'' chosen for herself -- an outright deadname.) In hindsight, this campaign marks her first ''[[AvertedTrope aversion]]'' of this trope in the podcast.
33	* DiagnosedByTheAudience: The players suggest {{UsefulNotes/Autism}} as the cause of Anna's quirks. (There might be some ValuesDissonance here, since they also keep mocking her for being stupid.)
34	* DirtyCoward: The Duke of Weselton, who spends the entire FinalBattle as well as its aftermath hiding in a corner.
35	* EpicFail: In reference to an earlier joke, Joz is jokingly told by another player for Anna to roll to resist [[{{Squick}} taking her vagina out]]. Dice hit the table and screaming is heard.
36	* FluffyTamer: Anna manages to tame Elsa's ice golem by asking it [[ChekhovsSkill if it wants to build a snowman.]] When Elsa comes rushing back, worried that her sister might be injured or dead, she finds them making ice sculptures and having a snowball fight.
37	* InSpiteOfANail: Despite the changes made to the plot in the campaign, it still [[BroadStrokes loosely follows]] TheStationsOfTheCanon. It even has more or less the same HappyEnding as the movie: Hans is defeated and Elsa has reconciled with her sister, taken back her throne, learned to control her powers and ended the curse plaguing her country. The biggest difference is that Elsa's subjects are still quite frightened of her, but our heroes are certain that she will gain their trust back in the future.
38	* LighterAndSofter: Compared to their earlier (and some later) campaigns, this one doesn't deconstruct the source material ''that'' much, and (as the players lampshade) plays more like a straight adaptation of the film. It was the first Rerolled film to ''not'' end in some kind of apocalypse, for one thing.
39	* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Anna is apparently considered this InUniverse, even being referred to as [[LampshadeHanging "manic" and "pixie-like."]] The players however, treat her more like TheLoad.
40	* TheMountainsOfIllinois : Kara insists that the story is set in UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}, a country with nothing close to the high mountains shown in the film. WordOfGod has been pretty clear on the fact that Arendelle was based on ''UsefulNotes/{{Norway}},'' which would make far more sense. (Creator/HansChristianAndersen-- the man who wrote [[Literature/TheSnowQueen the fairy tale]] the movie was based on -- ''was'' Danish, but that's neither here nor there.) [[RightForTheWrongReasons That said]], depending on ''when'' exactly the film or the original story would be set (not really specified beyond "some point in the past") Norway might still be a part of Denmark.
41	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Elsa says that in isolating herself at the top of the mountain she's trying to do what's best for the innocent people of Arendelle and Anna.
42	* NoSocialSkills: While it's understandable that a ShelteredAristocrat like Anna would have these, the other players feel that Jocelyn takes it too far, portraying Anna as if she has never met another human being before. They even suggest having her play [[WildChild Mowgli]] if they ever make an RPG based on ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967''.
43	* RunningGag:
44	** Disney rules! Usually used as an excuse for any strange part of the campaign.
45	** Anna being [[TheKlutz clumsy.]]
46	** Characters "[[MadeOfIron miraculously surviving]]" events which would be lethal in RealLife.
47	** The players singing/quoting different versions of ''Do You Want to Build a Snowman?'' and ''Let It Go.'' Especially "Do you want to X?" or [[WaxingLyrical "X never bothered me anyway."]]
48	** DM Jon Miller's [[AuthorAppeal weird obsession]] with obscure ([[PerfectlyCromulentWord and occasionally made-up]]) architectual terms.
49	** When Anna and Elsa are reunited at the ice castle, Jocelyn's description of Anna glomping Elsa reveals that she thinks a bear hug involves gripping with arms and legs like a bear climbing a tree. This gets multiple call-backs for the rest of the campaign.
50	* ShipTease: Between Elsa and Kristoff, interestingly enough.
51	* ShoutOut:
52	** When travelling to Elsa's castle, Jocelyn starts singing [[Film/TheWizardOfOz "We're Off To See The Wizard."]] (This later became HilariousInHindsight when the team released a ''[[Recap/FilmRerollTheWizardOfOz Wizard of Oz]]'' campaign... with Jocelyn as Dorothy, no less.)
53	** The players point out that having The Ice Golem form a bond with Anna and use his sword arms to make ice sculptures is very similar to the premise of Film/EdwardScissorhands.
54	** At one point, they accidentally call Falgore [[Film/TheNeverendingStory "Falkor."]]
55	* ShutUpHannibal: After his defeat, Hans starts ranting at Elsa from his prison cell... only to be knocked unconscious by a punch from Anna.
56	* TakingTheBullet: Subverted. Anna ''tries'' to save Elsa from Hans in this manner (similar to her HeroicSacrifice in the movie), but she ''misses'' so Elsa gets hit by the arrow anyway. Good thing that there are stone trolls with healing powers nearby...
57	* WalkingDisasterArea: Anna, partially due to some very unlucky rolls on Jocelyn's part. She ruins two dresses and the entire feast during Elsa's coronation ([[CrazyPrepared fortunately, the cooks have prepared a backup feast just in case something like this would happen]]). It gets worse when she fails to get a new dress and instead gets rolled up in a curtain like a mummy. Her ComedicUnderwearExposure is also caused by her falling over. During the FinalBattle, she tries to shoot Hans with a crossbow, only for the arrow to miss and [[PinballProjectile bounce around the courtyard]] [[FriendlyFire until it hits Falgore]] [[EyeScream in the eyes]], [[NiceJobBreakingItHero blinding him.]]
58	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Anna simply leaves Bors alone in a cave with a blanket. He never shows up again for the rest of the campaign. Lampshaded by the players, who immediately point out that he probably froze to death.

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