Tangled: the Series

It's not really a spoiler if it's part of the promotional material though...

Yeah, I see that now. I guess it could be intentionally misleading us, though. But that's still something I wouldn't have wanted spoiled so if it does happen then I'm mad at them for including it in the commercial...

edited 11th Mar '17 12:15:44 PM by thebandragoness

Can someone link to that commercial?

Not sure how I feel about that. The Aladdin series managed to go sixty-plus episodes without ever bringing back Jafar in any form.

It's part of a dream sequence or an imagine spot I bet

At long last, we finally here someone comment on Rapunzel's habit of not wearing shoes.

Mother Godel is not an Ursula or Jafar. She's barely threatening enough as to credibly fill as the villain of a single movie, bringing her back as a recurring enemy wouldn't be too wise, I think.

@Ultimatum: The sound is echo-y and weird enough that I'd believe that'd be the case.

I'd still rather they kept this a surprise.

Yeah. The Hercules series did it for them. ;)

My guess is a dream sequence that's comparing Mother Gothel to King Fredrick because while Fredrick is far more sincere and giving her a lot more reign, he's still using the same justifications that Gothel used to keep Rapunzel locked away.

I also get the impression that Fredrick's opinion of Eugene is very similar to Cassandra's, but he feels the need to restrain himself because as much as he's not fond of his daughter's relationship with a common thief, said thief is the only reason he got to see his daughter again at all.

x2 Didn't they at least give a good justification for bringing Jafar back? IIRC he died, Hades is the Lord of the Dead so he did Lord of the Dead things, and BOOM. Jafar came back. And the he died again or whatever.

How would they justify Gothel coming back? She basically disintegrated and Tangled isn't a High Fantasy where resurrection is a likely thing to exist.

edited 11th Mar '17 9:06:49 PM by Karxrida

The magical hair bringing Flynn back to life and also growing back entirely via magical means in the TV Series beg to differ.

Yeah, but Flynn wasn't turned into sand.

Right, but they did say resurection wasn't likely to happen when it has before. In general this setting clearly has a level of magic to it with a drop of sunlight creating a healing flower, which kept a witch alive for hundreds of years, which created healing hair, which resurected a man, which grew back in all of five seconds,

I feel like Gothel coming back at all isn't as implausible as they made it to be. I merely question it since Gothel's level of threat effectively ends with her demise since her whole thing was being an abusive parent.

She and Frollo have a lot in common. Frollo's power over Quasimodo ends by the climax of the film because Quasi is no longer willing to let Frollo's abuse control him. He couldn't be a capable threat if he survived because a big part of what made him a villain cannot exist anymore.

Let me rephrase that.

Resurrecting somebody when the body no longer exists seems to be outside the setting's magic level.

I have a feeling some kind of time travel is going to be involved. Mother Gothel being back pretty much requires that or True Resurrection. The incantation suggests that maybe it's a form of magic that can happen. "Make the clock reverse".

Clips from the movie show that this all starts from a stone found where the flower was found in the first place. There are a bunch of black spikes everywhere and Rapunzel touching it causes the hair to grow back. Apparently it all popped up "a year ago" meaning, if the series is set a year after Tangled, that catalyst could be Gothel's death. Maybe it simply reset everything causing Gothel to come back and Rapunzel's hair to grow back?

I'd rather have an original villain as the ongoing Big Bad, if there's one.

Or if they want a recognizable face, assuming Tangled and Frozen actually share a continuity, heck, have the Duke of Weaselton show up here and there as an antagonist. He's well known to meddle into the affairs of other countries, and there you have your obligatory Alan Tudyk role. Or you could use one of Hans' brothers, or even Hans himself since this should be taking place before Frozen. You could even plant subtle seeds for Frozen 2 while you're at it, now that should promote your series big time.

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That's pretty much impossible. This show is set between the movie and the wedding special. The wedding special takes place six months after the movie so...

edited 12th Mar '17 8:05:13 AM by Chariot

I really hope Mother Gothel is just a part of a dream sequence. It doesn't make much sense bringing her back for the series, honestly.

I could see the handwave "She was vaporized when the hair was cut, so when the hair came back she came back" but I agree that narratively she has no place opposite an independent Rapunzel with a functioning support system.

Not to mention, unless she keeps combing the hair regularly she's only going to disappear again anyway.

Gothel could be the villain of the pilot movie like Jafar was for Return of Jafar, but only for the movie.

Pilot movie aired two days ago so no.