@beautyistruth wrote:
I completely agree with the boring paladin of good criticism! Mulan is one of my favorite princesses and she is so dull on this show. Flat one-liners, no sense of interiority, a few sage remarks. Bleh. Her character had better start becoming more dymanic, or I will be sad.
Someone suggested recently that perhaps she and Lancelot were a potential couple, (assuming he’s alive and will be coming back). The more I think about that possibility, the more I hope it ends up happening, coz having a lil bit of Lance in her life would loosen her up a bit. He’s got similar qualities to her, both of them being noble warriors and whatnot, but he’s also got some wild abandon romantic passion stuff going on, (not just any guy says, “to hell with it” and risks it all to have an affair with his king’s wife), which would benefit Mulan if she was opened up to it.
Going back to the idea of Cora potentially controlling Mulan against her will, (which I could deal with much better than if she was consciously being villainous), if that was the case, that’d be something she and Lancelot could come together and bond over, considering Cora stole his identity.
Mulan feels very isolated from the other characters at the moment. Even though she and Aurora have had the same amount of air time, Aurora has an emotional attachment to Phillip, a history with Maleficent, and has interacted with Snow on an emotional level by lashing out at her. Mulan hasn’t connected with anyone like that yet. The only character we’ve seen who she has any emotional history with is Lancelot, given that I’m sure they were friends before Cora took him over. So if she’s gonna start connecting emotionally with people in the future, I’d think he’d be where she’d start. For her sake, I’m really hoping he’s still alive.