Ruminating

While this isn't canon, I have always headcanoned that Gothel used a big, person-sized basket with a rope, and lifted and lowered herself in and out of the tower while Rapunzel' was a baby's hair was growing out. She probably started doing that once Rapunzel was about two years old. After all the entry at the base of the tower was outright bricked up, so Gothel wasn't using that at all for years and years, and two is just about when the long term memory starts to kick in (ignoring Rapunzel's canonically brilliant and unrealistic infant memories).

Hook Hand never really liked Eugene.

It was Rapunzel he warmed up to, not Eugene. He and the other Pub Thugs helped Eugene escape because he was going to help her, not for his own sake. "I'm malicious, mean, and scary." Eugene follows his rule, Rapunzel is the exception to his rule.

The thing is, there's this moment, a few minutes in fact, where literally everything about her life has changed all at once. Pascal is the only constant. Her mother isn't her mother, and is also dead. Her hair -- the one thing she's been told her whole life is her only value -- is gone. The only person who saw beyond the value of her hair, the man she loved, is dead in her arms. The only home she's ever known is a lie, because she's actually a princess. The world is not as dark and scary as Gothel always told her, although aspects of it are (still, most of it is wonderful).

I might be the only one who thinks this but I actually would’ve liked it if Cap had a normal helmet here.

because, I'm sorry, I don't believe he was captain 20 years ago. Unless, of course, he has aged incredibly well.

You can see the bags under Arianna’s eyes and the laugh lines that weren’t there 20 years ago. You can see how gaunt and hollow Frederic’s face looks. It even looks like his cheeks have kinda sunken down.

But in the show, aside from Frederic’s gray hair those details are all gone

Like it's your daughter's 18th birthday, the same daughter that you haven't seen since she was born. You're preparing to celebrate her birthday, your yearly tradition, when someone steals the crown you had made for your baby when she was born. The last thing you have left of her.

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I saw Susan Egan in concert a few years ago, along with several other Disney/Broadway stars! It was for a Disney 80s & 90s retro night at the Hollywood Bowl! James Monroe Igelhart wasn't there, but he was a pre-recorded narrator for it!

The two biggest highlights for me were when Susan was talking about playing Belle on Broadway vs. Megara for Hercules. Disney didn't want to let her audition for Meg, because they looked at her Belle performance and decided it was a bad fit. But, as she explained it, "Belle was acting. Meg is where I live." She eventually got the audition, and the role.

First off, if you’re on an island that you own, tanned and rested and alone, why does he need money? Unless we’re to assume this is for traveling back to the mainland to get food and possible materials for repairs? Otherwise I would assume in his ideal paradise he needs contact with absolutely no one, but maybe that’s just the internal bias of wishing there was a world where we could live alone forever and be fine

(Should be queued up to his verse, for reference.)

Also, he literally did just steal one of Valdimir's ceramic unicorns right out of his hand. They're grumpy with him.

Posted this analysis on Reddit, but didn't get much discussion on it. Let's see if it does better here.

NOTE: This is an analysis of the meaning of the sash BEFORE the series was ever a concept. As in a deep dive if there was any intended symbolism for it in the wedding from its original source. Please do not go "Edmun gave it to him." I know.

So anyway, the Wedding Sash.

I was reading some rando-article on the UK Royals a few months ago and noticed the women wore blue sashes that went across the body and ended at the hip, like Eugene's. It made me curious so I looked them up.

From what I found in research was interesting.

Apparently, sashes with crests/pins like that typically mean the royal or honored man/woman has been granted membership of a chivalric order or knighthood for rendering a great service to the Crown. The sash worn in public events to show that, and the crest design chosen by the ruling monarch who granted it.

In the wedding, and the Frozen cameo he has two different style sashes, but as we only see his back in the cameo, we can only assume one crest.

there are destroyed tents and wagons and whatnot. I always took this as a Saporian encampment, and the building was there when they got there. There are far more vehicles than buildings wrecked in this scene.

And judging by this

I sincerely wish they'd been more clear about time frames and distances. How long have the black rocks been spreading? How far is this location from the Dark Kingdom? We know it's somewhere between the Great Tree and the House of Yesterday's Tomorrow, but that just begs the question.

I always got the impression that the black rocks didn't start growing until after Frederic had taken the sundrop. Cause the rocks have clearly been there for a while in some towns and no one really acknowledges it. but in other towns you have situations like this where it's completely driven people away.

When TBEA first came out, the fandom had a big ol' discussion about when exactly did the rocks super start heading for Corona? there was speculation that it was when she left the tower and they could sense her again. After all, Cassandra says the rocks grew up around the location the flower used to be "about six months ago," ie when Rapunzel left the tower. But I personally like to think that it still took them some time to get there, and they first began to sense her again the first time her hair touched the ground when she was letting Gothel up. Since the part of her that was the flower made contact with the ground so very briefly, and Gothel got in the habit of catching the hair and looping it

the rocks only had a few brief moments to attempt to hone in on it before Gothel got the hang of this specific maneuver, so the going was slow.

Rapunzel redesign 🩷

I mean, it is a comedy though. Just like the movie is a comedy. Neither are exclusively a comedy, but they're deliberately funny a lot of the time.

As for things that made me laugh a lot, nothing has ever made me laugh more than the conversation between Eugene and Demanitus:

[Demanitus]: Get it? A mon-key! [Eugene]: No. Denied. *turns his back* [Demanitus]: Here. *tosses the key to Eugene* [Eugene]: *fails to catch the key and it plummets into the green-acidy-type-thing-filled cauldera* [Eugene]: What did you do that for?! [Demanitus]: You were supposed to catch it! [Eugene]: I wasn't ready! You should have warned me! [Demanitus]: I SAID, "HEEEEEERE!"

All the Wile E. Coyote shenanigans that Ruddiger gets up to in "The Lost Treasure of Herz der Sonne". (Hell, that whole episode is comedy gold.)

The entire scene in "Return to the Spire" after, "We're in a room full of magical artifacts and I don't know what ANY of them DO!!"

Everything little Lance gets up to in "You're Kidding Me!"

If so, how long did it take for Varian to make the compound?

I think there was a deleted sequence of Varian making the formula but the video is gone.

I honestly don't recall seeing any sort of video, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

I have a screenshot of the animatic :

The most important thing to remember is that they need to take shortcuts in animation for cost purposes. So, for example, lessening the number of barrels loaded onto the airship.

But we know that, as of "Happiness Is..." the takeover hadn't even happened yet, so if we assume the takeover happened right after that, I'd say it took at least six months for the whole process.

"I've been on tones of dates" "YOU HAVE? 🤨"

Also the episode where stalyan kidnapped Eugene and tried to force him to marry her and the whole time Rapunzel was just going "ugly ass wedding what a loser what shitty decorations she chose"

unfortunately, i dont think im going to manage any mermay art this year, so ill just share these doodles of the tts gang i did for mermay a couple years ago!