Selections from The Art of Tangled: the Series, taken from Stephen Nicodemus’ video.
tangledbea reblogged
I have recently remembered how there are eleven, maybe twelve, total characters of color in Tangled: The Series (out of a total human cast of 100+), and nine/ten of them are portrayed as some combination of criminal, villainous, or untrustworthy for a significant amount if not all of their screen time. And everyone hyped this show up as being so progressive for Disney.
I am so tired. Hire people of color to work on your damn show. And stop making excuses for creators who do this. Yes Disney-the-company strangles good rep but they’re not forcing the show to be racist.
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Anonymous asked:
Was Madame Canardist’s voice actor the same for the movie outtake as it was in the series because they sound similar
I doubt it. But they probably used her outtake voice as a guide when casting. In the series, she was voiced by Carol Kane, who was Valerie (Miracle Max's wife) in The Princess Bride! I'm sure the outtake was done by someone who was working on the movie.
About Lance! There was actually something I've been thinking about so much that would've added so much depth to his character! I think that since he is a Black man and possibly a minority in Corona society, maybe they could've explored his origin and worked in racism into the show. Like in Big Brothers, I think it would've been interesting to see him be rejected for the guard instructor role because of "his people" were deemed untrustworthy. I really think that couldve been interesting 🤷🏽♀️
I don’t think they’d have gone that route. There are a few black guards, after all.
Not to mention the other black citizens of high standing in Corona, and the black royalty/nobility we see from time to time. (Sure, there aren’t a lot in the series and I 100% acknowledge that, but there is so much more racial diversity in the series than there was in the movie.)
Besides, I sort of feel like using Lance to make racism a plot would, ah... how to put this delicately...? It would make literally everything to do with Madam Canardist look like utter hypocrisy.
That being said, it’s all fine and dandy that Lance bonded with Catalina and Kiera in the background of the story and that he adopted them at the end, but they never made any mention, even in passing, that adopting them was something he was considering. I’m glad he did, don’t get me wrong, but they were so focus on making him the buffoonic comic relief that they didn’t make him look like he’d be a competent father in any way, shape or form. It’s all subtext, so sub that we need a magnifying glass to see it.
Ah well. Series is over, characters are in our hands now, we can develop Lance as much as we want, as a fandom.