Big Brothers of Corona

On vacation this week so I’m going to be posting the next two reviews early. Today’s episode introduces fan favorites, Angry and Red. 

Summary:  While trying to find Lance a job, Eugene and he are tasked by the Captain of the Guards with capturing a mysterious thief robbing the people of Corona. They do so, but discover that the "thief" is actually two young homeless girls. Sympathizing with the girls, Eugene and Lance decide to help them change their ways. After the girls steal Rapunzel's tiara, Eugene and Lance discover the girls are fleeing their own old enemy, the Baron. Meanwhile, Cassandra is accidentally hurt and Rapunzel keeps trying to help her recover, but the princess's attempts always end more annoying than helpful.

This is Another Episode Shown Out of Order

It’s not as bad as last episode, but there’s still that added layer of context that is lost here. There’s meant to be an irony in Eugene going out of his way to help two kids on the run, while at the same time Rapunzel is ignoring another kid in need who’s on the run, Varian.  

Speaking of which 

King Frederic is Lying 

Frederic has sent many a child to jail before this and he’ll send more children to jail after this.

In No Time Like the Past, a teen Lance is thrown in the dungeon and the teen Stabingtons are also arrested. He also locked Varian in the dungeon according to Rapunzel’s Return. 

And no you can’t use ‘Varian did worst’, ‘it’s of the times’, nor ‘teens aren’t kids’ here. 

Varian isn’t some special case because he did horrible crimes, because teen Lance and the teen Stabbingtons get the same treatment for petty theft. 

You can’t say it’s because they were all teens, when Varian is called a child by several people in the show indicating that teens are still viewed as children in this world. 

And you can’t say, ‘well that’s just the way things were back then’, when this a fantasy show set in different world with an undetermined time period and the king himself is admitting that they don’t do that. As if caging kids weren’t the norm. 

So either Frederic is a lying hypocrite or the Captain made a bunch of arrests without his knowledge over the years. Given what we know about both them and Corona’s justice system in the show; I’m more inclined to believe that Frederic is just an arse. 

The Plot Between Cass and Raps is Already Getting Old

Once again it’s just Cass and Raps not listening to each other. Yawn. 

Also Raps may be overbearing, but it’s Cass’s own fault for being dismissive of Raps in the first place. 

Neither girl respects the other and in turn I’m given little reason to respect either of them. 

This is the boringest plot and I can’t believe writers were dumb enough to make it the main conflict of the whole series. 

Watch as the Show Forgets Its Own Lesson 

This episode presents the very forward idea that you can force people to change and that you shouldn't try too. That they need to do it for themselves. Rapunzel and the show apparently forgets this simple truth in season three as that’s precisely what they have Rapunzel do several times over and it’s fundamentally flawed on several levels. 

Character Development?

This is suppose to be a step forward in Lance’s arc as he learns responsibility and gains employment. This new job will never be mentioned again though, and anything Lance might have learned here is forgotten by season 2. 

Conclusion 

This is one of the better episodes. What flaws it does have are due to the flaws surrounding the main ongoing conflict instead.