Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24386552-20180204001624/@comment-2153169-20180204020241

CoolDudeAl wrote: Lady Junky wrote: The main problem of Cinderella is that they want to establish her as Snow 2.0 right away. Same with her romance with Henry. The thing is we can't really compare her because of one main point...

Just look at how many backstory eps she got so far: 3. We're half season; and we got 3 backstories for Ella: 701, 703, 708. Now, look at Snow in S1. Look at how many backstories she got in S1, not even the number of ep where she was centric.... Just the number of eps giving a more or less good look at her past: 101, 103, 107, 110, 115, 116, 118, 121.

They are not comparable. We can't relate to Ella if she does not appear, or is not important to make the flashback imp. Same about her romance with Henry.

Jacinda feels better because her storyline felt important in many episodes, not just her centric.

The first problem of Ella is her lack of centric/screentime. Potential writing issues come after.

While I agree with the overall point, I would point out that the fact that she doesn't get many centrics and/or screentime is decided by the writers, so it is in fact part of the writing issues.

When I say "potential writing issues", I mean issues with how the character is written, how the backstories are writing, how they make us feel sympathy with her... Was talking about the writing of the character, not the choice of episodes by the writers.

I really like the character of Ella. Really. I think she has a lot of potential, and personally I like Dania.... But how are we supposed to feel involve in Ella's suffering and situation when she had two scenes with Lady Tremaine? Not talking about present day scenes. If you look at it, Ella got two scenes with Tremaine: one in 701 & one in 703.

Tremaine mistreated her, made her a maid. Ella suffered a lot, she lost confidence, she accepted to became Cinderella, and not Ella... But we can't relate. Cos they just mentioned these events, they did not show them. So, we're less involved in the character.