Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29195016-20160724204832/@comment-4453062-20161214012846

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Actually, I know plenty of people who hated The Tower specifically because of Rapunzel not having any mention of Tangled. They thought she was bland and uninspired. They did like that she was racebent into an African-American princess, but that's pretty much it. Oh, "The Tower" got a ton of critics after it aired, and many of the criticisms didn't even have to do with Tangled. I thought it was a very underwhelming take on the Rapunzel story that just didn't work. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if the backlash from the episode was what inspired the later more direct Disney insertions starting with Frozen.