@thelonebamf wrote:
I’m trying to imagine how Aurora might have been developed differently. (Also, pardon my confusion, but in early episodes Regina and Maleficent talk about how Phillip and Aurora overcame the sleeping curse. So why is Aurora asleep again at the beginning of season 2? I think my mind must have messed up somewhere.) Aurora in the animated film was a little sassy, had a lovely singing voice (par for princesses) and was raised by fairies? A bit of a curious streak. I’m trying to imagine where we could edge some fun character development in to that story.
A bit to the confusion of anyone who knows merely the Grimm and the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty: Aurora is not the original Sleeping Beauty. In the early version of Perault (which the Grimm version is based on, but they left some things out) Sleeping Beauty has two children, a son name Day (french Le Jour) and a daughter named Dawn (french L’Aurore – Dawn, like Buffy’s “sister”, what a coincedence). Regina and Malifecent are not talking about Phillip and Aurora, they are talking about Aurora’s mother. Aurora says in the first episode she appears, that Maleficent was first after her mother and then her.
I find the reactions to Aurora interesting, many who find the character annoying, boring, wasted. She is the one princess who kinda gets the typical princess treatment, she seems to be spoiled, hardly able to look after herself, the damsel in distress type. The interesting, rather amusing thing is, Aurora is treated like that on the show itself, not by the writers but by characters, treated like a child, the little one, a fragile unexperienced young woman. Phillip is annoyingly patronizing her after she woke up, Mulan sees in her just the princess she has to protect because she promised it to Phillip (she though starts to see more in her after a while), Snow is carying but not taking her serious on her own terms, and just Emma seems to not automatically assume that Aurora is in need of protection. If I were in Aurora’s shoes it would annoy the heck out of me – and she does react annoyed. She tells Phillip no to spare her, she follows Emma, Mulan and Snow, feeling that she had to take justice in her own hands, she resists Cora, something a lot of people wouldn’t have done. She is as much brave and strong as any of the other princesses and female heroes in the show, just in a different way. And she is sassy in my opinion. Seeing parallels to Belle here, who sometimes as well is taken as not as heroic as other of the female characters on the show.
@Maryrose D. wrote:
Phillip- he created the whole Aurora/ Mulan love triangle which bores me to death since those two are way better as friends than jealous kids. Also he has done nothing except get sucked by a wraith and kiss a girl in the entire show. I find he just caused massive problems and if he wasn’t so stupid certain problems or issues would have been revolved sooner.
Poor guy, so far he has been just a plot device, and that twice. And in both cases Phillip was the catalyst for a story of possible womance (female bromance, some call it girlcrush).
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