Hell, I want a piece of Elsa!
It struck me that it was a pretty close allegory to Prince Charles’ upbringing. Isn’t Prince Phillip supposed to have purposefully sent him to a harsh repressive boarding school, and to have insisted upon complete stoicism? And wasn’t he raised by a cadre of nannies with very little interaction with other children?
Two shots for every boy Elsa.
Reported for desiring a love that can never be.
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I can totally see the angst thing for the older half of the audience - when you’re ten or eleven, sure, ‘intense and misunderstood’ is way better than ‘spunky and fun’. But these kids I saw last week were all under about seven. At that age, I would’ve thought Elsa was boringly grown-up. Maybe angst kicks in earlier these days.
The powers make sense, too. You guys are gonna convert me to Elsa :-D. What baffles me isn’t that she’s got fangirls - it’s that such a vast *majority *of the kids are into her, over Anna. I would’ve expected it to be closer to half and half.
Having an explicit evil that early would ruin the twist, though, wouldn’t it? I think it works a lot better without anyone involved being explicitly evil.
Now, if you want to have the parents know how to deal with her, but have them killed off, I guess that could work. But then why wouldn’t they have left explicit instructions? Or why wouldn’t others have followed them?
You can get it in there, but it makes it more complicated than it needs to be. Parents get spooked by trolls and overprotect her works better.
(And you need the trolls for the exposition about how everything works. They already removed explaining how she got the powers. I don’t think they can remove the whole thing.)
I disagree. It’s exactly how I’ve seen well-intentioned people react to fear. Heck, if you make the king and queen metaphorical, it’s what fearful people very often do. They wall themselves off from reality to deal with it.
Is it the wrong reaction? Sure. But it’s what we naturally do.
No way. Elsa has the magic! My (just a couple weeks from being a) three year old makes me play Frozen with her all the time. She is almost always Elsa and almost always “does the magic” where she circles her hands and throws them up in the air to create snow. The only time I am Elsa is whenever I go in a room and close the door she walks up to the door, knocks gently, and says, “Do you want to build a snowman?”
Og, we play frozen a lot! She makes her dad act out Sven and Elsa’s father (who she refers to as “King Daddy”) when he puts the gloves on her hands. For a while she made me be Anna when she freezes completely but she insisted that I lay down on the ground so she could sit on my butt and cry over my death so I quickly put an end to that.
"you’re as cold as ice, willing to sacrifice - "
I love this post just because it captures how nutty sounding it is to be a parent to young kid.
Makes me feel better for the fact my son asks me to chase him and eat his belly lol.
I just now asked my daughter why kids want to be Elsa instead of Anna for Halloween.
“Elsa’s the magical-power one. Anna isn’t.”
The cold never bothered him anyway.
Is he one with the wind and sky?
Let it go.
This thread is getting stale, anyone wanna build a snowman?
It doesn’t have to be a snowman.
Okay, bye.
i thought i should let it go but, i guess i should answer this. WhyNot already mentioned this the previous page, and i agree with both of you. however, my point was that a story (unlike real life) is usually expected to be neatly tied off with a ribbon. jarring literary shortcuts with two dimensional parents oblivious to the terrible injustice and difficulties faced by their charges are more suitable in a cartoon for children.