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Esk's Grade Report

Plot (2 out of 3)

- Worldbuilding 101: Sultan of Sultans exist, King of Kings, not so much. It's confusing to a Western Audience to have King X raise taxes on Queen Eudora, etc, who is not his wife. Say Emperor or Great King, or High King, or something. I believe that this was due to them wanting to have "The Prince" for the Cinderella tale and "Princess Tiana", and tie them together. However, they could have simply had the Prince be the heir to Empire

- Points to adding some languages (appears they speak English and French, which I believe the popular Cinderella version was French. Clever, clever. Also, they touch on something that's often ingore too, too much. Noveau Riche aka New Rich. New Rich isn't seen the same as Old Rich, etc. Read the Great Gatsby and the struggle between the two classes are interesting and sort of tragic.

- Solid plot development as the cogs are turning into a multi-pronged approach. Tiana's story was also solid filler. It was decent for her character;however, logistically, they should have addded more before her one-day set-up for #Resist.

Character (2.5 out of 4)

- New: Tiana (solid establishment, though it appears that she'll be pretty static), Drizella (continued development into a prong in the villanous pitchfork), Jace (appears to be finally moving from a downer to supportive). I believe that I figured out Tremaine's role in the season as she's really just a part of something I see as much bigger.

- Old: Rogers appears to be a bit too static. Roni (personally, a tad annoyingly persistent) has a slight writing device feel than a dynamic character as her character constantly bombards the viewer that Regina is Henry's mother and that she would be a "Regular Queen" (which noone has ever said). Put aside, what the audience knows already. Roni appears super-invasive and pushy, given that she "empathized" what Henry has been through.

- Rumple and Alice are out of sight, out of mind. (Not even a mention)

- Recurring (Facilier) and one-offs were pretty strong in adding character reflection.

Balance (1.5 out of 2)

- The dialogue is interesting. It felt like a brush without bristles. Where A/E are very pointy and J/J have little groves, this feels a bit smooth; however, while being continuous, it dampens some scenes too much or heightens certain other scenes in a possiblly unintentional way.

Fandom Outlook (1 out of 1)

- I think it was decently received.

Overall (7 out of 10)

Good development, while filling in other characters. The structural set-up of the episode is possibly detrimental as it's better to keep characters developing with each episode where some second rung characters are gone for epiosdes at a time.