RIP Rapunzel

[RumplesGirl]

Rapunzel sacrificed herself to save Drizella in the final moments of the episode. Do you think her death was earned? Did she redeem herself for being a sort of villain? What’s next for Ivy and Anastasia now that their mother is dead?

[Stahlop]

I didn’t buy Rapunzel’s sacrifice for a second. There is no way she would sacrifice herself while Anastasia was under Gothel’s influence. The writers just wanted to get Anwar out and this was their convaluted solution.

[RumplesGirl]

The writers just wanted to get Anwar out and this was their convaluted solution.

I agree. It felt like halfway through the season they realized Anwar wasn’t quite up the task of being a menacing Lady Tremaine and decided that they liked Gothel better anyways so they wrote her out.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[Gaultheria]

It would’ve felt more dramatic to me if they hadn’t already had the same ceremony earlier in the same episode.

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[AKA]

I have no problem with them sacrificing Rapunzel like most of you I thought her character was rather uninspiring.   The problem I have is that I do like Ivy and I wanted her to have the moment with her mom that she deserved.  OUAT at it’s core  has always been about parent/child relationships and this COULD have been another great moment on OUAT, but they failed.  All they had to do was have Rapunzel have her ah ha moment without the imminent threat of death to her daughter.  Rapunzel could have later sacrificed herself to save Ivy in the ultimate show of love, that would have at least been somewhat satisfying. I wanted and needed Rapunzel to actually “see” Ivy and realize that she did indeed love her.  Instead we got Ivy admitting that she loved her mom enough to suggest the lanterns and then nothing. Writers it was not up to Ivy to show her mom that she loved her, it was up to her mom to show Ivy that SHE loved her!!! How hard is this thought process.  As the adult parent of the sad, bitter, and angry child (yes I realize Ivy is a young adult but still emotionally a child who wants her mom’s love) it is Rapunzel’s responsibility to show Ivy she loves her.  OUAT totally missed that, and I don’t know how when they are so good at doing these child/parent reconciliations.

[hjbau]

They should have ended Rapunzel’s arc in the first half. There was no emotional resonance at all to her dying now. I know i was interested in that storyline for the first half, but now i didn’t care or even remember what they were talking about with the lamps. It just didn’t work and i didn’t care. I was glad Drizella lived and not Tremaine. This was an end arc, not a beginning.

[bibliophile]

I thought the scene itself was good, but it would’ve been much better had they laid in some ground to make their relationship feel real. All we really got was Rapunzel doesn’t love Ivy (no real reason given) and Ivy (justifiably) resents this. If we were just given a decent reason why Rapunzel dislikes Ivy so much or if they’d sown in a few hints that she does love Ivy after all and maybe she’s just way obsessed with saving Anastasia and basically took Ivy for granted. As it stands her sacrifice came out of nowhere.

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