Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34376046-20180411110750/@comment-1916997-20180412003324

RedCoatOfficial wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote:

RedCoatOfficial wrote: Out of the new cast I really like Drizella, Gothel and Rapunzel. I also like Alice’s relationship with everyone, as others have pointed out. I was a bit disappointed with Anastasia though, sisnce she was only Anastasia Tremaine in name. Not evil, not a redhead, nothing. I mean Ana doesn't have much charicterization in Cinderella. In the sequels she is shown to be the nicer stepsister, which is true on Once. But really her and Driz and pretty blank slates if you just go off of the first Cinderella movie. I just wasn't a big fan of the fact that they didn't really take any of the characteristics of Anastasia from the movie or even the stepsisters from the book really. She wasn't a redhead in a pink dress. But I could get over that given that Clorinda and Tisbe/Queen Anastasia didn't really either but then there was the fact that she wasn't an "evil" stepsister. But I possibly could have even accepted that (given Clorinda), but it was made even worse by the fact that she was dead by the time the story of Cinderella really occurs. It's like she isn't really Anastasia in any way. Yeah, I think given that this was their third take on Ana (since we already had Red Queen Ana and Clorinda/Tisbe), they had to do something to differenciate her, and I think this was a good way to do it. And I liked the near dead twist, because it plays on the fact that the name Anastasia means resurrection (something they also did on Wonderland with Ana). To me, the fact that she is the daughter or Lady Tremaine, sister to Drizella, and stepsister to Cinderella, makes her similar enough to be a fine adaptation.