Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26225812-20150625072936/@comment-25926288-20170521000759

Farerb wrote:

8Rob wrote: I'll never understand what the creators were trying to do with Phillip-Aurora and Mulan there

Because I swear I thought Mulan liked Phillip in season 2, but then it turned out it was Aurora. In my opinion, their initial plan was for Mulan to fall in love with Phillip and then changed it to Aurora (maybe because of the growth of SQ), but they weren't bold enough to really go there (or maybe it's abc or Disney that didn't allow it). Then there is that thing with seadon 5, since Mulan was "established" to be at least bi, you would think that she was intended to be one part of the gay ship, but nope, they inserted a less established character out of the blue and told us she liked girls (I think in this case Disney didn't allow it or A&E just wanted to have an illogical twist just to shock everyone for the sake of shocking everyone only). Meanwhile Mulan is lonely and unhappy and that is not a great message of "HOPE™". ^This. Mulan was clearly signalling something for Phillip (even in 2x11, when the journey was already over). I think Mulan was written to likely be a triangle member, but they clearly had Phillip and Aurora had TLK. So, instead of Phillip (who was never onscreen), they went with Aurora, which I believe whichever would be the lover, Mulan would be turned down.

I also agree about the "Ruby Slippers" thing. I partially believe that someone came up with the cool idea of "RubyxDorothy" and they went with that. I do think they may have originally planned Red and Mulan and stuff came up (behind the scenes, corporate-y). Oh well, Mulan is alone. If there's anything, I think they may bring the Dragon back and tied his story with Mulan's and maybe slightly hint at her relationship (and leave it at that). If left ambiguous, they can't be guilty of breaking whatever behind the scenes agreement.