just a girl in the world

[irrelevant]

A friend pointed me in the direction of Tangled because we both like animated things and it looked cool to her. So I was watching the trailer and going, hm, possibly amusing.

And then I thought, life is not monochrome. Why is everyone white? And why do the two main characters in any Disney animation -- in most animation -- always have the same skin color?

And then I thought, oh god, this is Disney, they're going to spoil the awesome humor with sappy romance, and I don't wanna watch sappy romance.

And then I thought, except if the main dude was a girl. They changed the story and made him a bandit instead of a prince, which I am all for, so why not make him a her? Because I'd go for a girl-girl romance if it wasn't too sappy.

And then I thought, is that a tree frog or a gecko?

And then I thought, you know, it's really going to suck if one of them is a long lost prince or princess. Unless it's the tree frog.

Which was when I realized family entertainment just wasn't for me anymore. I mean, it hasn't been for years, but I guess Tangled was my epiphany.

Comments

[rosestoo]

I ended up liking Tangled. Its sappy. Its romantic. The girl is naive. And a long lost princess. But, really, when you take the original myth at least her mother didn't cause the whole thing by being all D: BUT I MUST HAVE THAT RADISH IN THE WITCHES YARD~~

Trufx I would have loved it even more if there was some f/f in my Disney fairytale, or some nice variety in ethnicity, but its Disney and I don't see that happening anytime soon(totally side rant point in both of those there). Until that changes, though, I shall read Ash and its f/f Cinderella.

[quakey]

Tangled goes on a growing list of movies called rent-and-watch-when-Sprout-is-older. I'm sure I will get to see every animated Disney flick from the past 50 years by the time he's 5. :P

Also, I'm trying to imagine pitching an f/f multi-ethnic fic to Disney execs. I think they would look like this: O_______o Also, congrats, somehow this makes me want genderflip!Jaime.

XD You are not family-friendly.