Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20160401165933/@comment-25926288-20160401210535

The issue I have with Frozen is that they literally did a "copy and paste" without ramifications to the world, magic, and that's only setting, not even getting to plot and characters. First, they didn't twist the world of Frozen aka Arendelle. Arendelle is clearly in the 1800s, having decent levels of dress and technology that suited that era. Being plopped down in FTL kills a worldbuilding loon like me. Brave was okay and all the rest is like 1200 to 1400s Europe and the people dress like extreme peasants compared to Arendelle and Arendelle had a different society where magic was rather unknown and Ice magic sort of doesn't match the dark vs light magic they set up. Ingrid and Elsa were like forces of nature compared to the other magic users.

The thing with Frozen was that besides all the plot which was decent, the characters didn't do much. Elsa teaches Emma a hidden lesson, becomes insta-friends with Emma, leaves. She did not grow whatsoever. But that's practically the same for everyone else of that gang and even Merida. I can like the Bear King as a stand alone episode, but I'm not sure what Merida's character arc was, especially with it ending with her finding the good that her father had and now waiting to take revenge against Arthur. Plus, for both, they sort of retread across the movie.

In those stories, they showed their originality, but to steal a line from Cora, "[it] would have been enough". It wouldn't have led to a surge, but I think they learned enough from it.