would sell one-third of my soul for season 1 of tts but for 14+.
-diving into rapunzelās guilt over touching the rocks as she tries to do that typical āfillerā stuff, so the audience isnāt wondering why the problem isnāt being addressed, but rather, wondering how much longer until she breaks and addresses it.
-more character focus (honestly, i want this for the whole show). cassandra had some good development in season 1, but iād love it if it delved into eugene struggling to reconcile his past with the fact that he lives in a castle now. with. you know. the guy that almost had him hanged.
-more eugene and lance flashbacks, particularly lance-focused stuff.
-more time with varian (particularly the varian-rapunzel and varian-eugene dynamics). really integrating him into the faces we think of when we think of the main cast, even if he isnāt necessarily their friend. or, heck, actually making him their friend.
-the destruction of old corona in real time. maybe making it the image shown during the credits! like, we see the normal village, and then, with each passing episode, the rocks overtake it further, pushing themselves into the picture as the sky gradually darkens.
-a varian pov episode with the masked men outside his house as he battles lingering sickness from the storm. we can even combine this with āthe quest for varianā as rapunzel investigates his abandoned, cobweb-covered lab.
-would. would it be too ridiculously angsty of me to ask for varian to inject ruddiger with the growth serum onscreen. because i kind of want that.
-blood during the finale. be it cassā, the rocks causing eugene an injury, or a spike plunging through the automaton and across the side of varianās face, leaving a scar that lasts forever and the very obvious symbolism going hand-in-hand with it.
HONESTLY THIS GOES FOR S2 AS WELL.
-cass actually struggling with her rotted hand.
-rapunzel making excuses to herself that no, sheās not just ignoring her problems all over again, because sheās traveling! sheās figuring out how to stop the black rocks! itās fine!
-treating lance being poisoned with way more depth, because. like. that shouldnāt be made into a funny scene. we can let lance not be the comedic black best friend once. iām begging you.
-flashbacks to corona and varianās prison breakout, along with his internal redemption and andrew manipulating him.
-cassā transformation into moon cass visibly making her look more gaunt, like how the flower healed gothel but in reverse. also having her be possessed by zhan tiri, at least for part of her arc.
okay fine weāre going into season three because this post is spiraling out of control
-letting varian sacrifice himself for corona, except thereās obviously some magic thing that still saves him. but that really should have been his redemption moment. the climax. *āthere was room for two on that door, roseā voice* there was room for two inside that hair shield, rapunzel!
-either making quirin actually dead or at least doing some kind of fakeout.
-king edmund showing more signs of mental illness.
-multiple episodes where lance is at least featured with angry & cat. slowly but surely maturing enough to adopt them.
-varianās voice getting more strained in ānothing left to loseā after being hit with the rocks. (jeremy jordan is an insane-level performerā i know he couldāve sold that so well and iām baffled why they didnāt tell him to.)
-zhan tiri being much, much creepier.
-cass deteriorating more physically than just being pale, causing people to naturally show sympathy for her instead of. you know. a sadistic grin as she wields a sword effortlessly.
-the moonstone not healing cassā disability.
-varian either getting to freak out inside that rock cage, or us seeing him consciously force his panic down. heās still human even though heās a genius, and he was confined hundreds of feet above the ground for about a day.
-not recreating the new dream moments in the finale, but giving us some original cass stuff that means just as much. this also comes with seeing what killed cass.
-making it clear that varian chose the role of royal engineer. also that he got to bring hot running water to his village first, the way he wanted to.
-depending on how cassā arc is handled, either letting her be captain of the guard or exiling her with a hint that sheāll return to rapunzel in secret.