Talk:Cassandra (Tangled)/@comment-31282252-20200131233234

OK, let's do it:

_ A while ago, in the Cliffhanger of the second season, I had written a comment about why I thought Cassandra as a villain seemed like a bad idea. I tried to give a sane argument, but it was another era and I had not seen that resource in the correct form in which the series transmitted it. Anyway, after properly reanalyzing the series, I thought that Cassandra's change was successful. That is, in the third season there is more exposure to understand, and if you look well above the surface, you realize that there is an “internal mechanism” in Cassandra's psychology, but let's see if I explain myself:

In episode 1 of the third season, "Rapunzel's Return", Cassandra reveals that she is the daughter of Mother Gothel and that she is resentful (rather, psychologically furious) because when she was little her mother abandoned her for staying with Rapunzel and her magical hair, scene we saw in the flashback of when Cassandra was trapped in that 'magic door dimension'. For those of us who watched the movie, we know that Mother Gothel was a good "mother" with Rapunzel because she needed to trust her to make it easy for her to sing and activate the magic, and that actually Gothel was a horrible person (and likely Zhan Tiri follower) who only thought about herself and her 'eternal youth'. But, the fact that Cassandra as a child had such an unconditional love for her mother as a child (besides being young) could be because Gothel had a fourth affection for Cassandra. I mean, he took the trouble to raise her. He could have left her as a baby, but he didn't. Although, at the moment of truth, we all know what happened. What I really want to get to (and I think it takes a long time) is a theory in which I think Cassandra didn't plan her entire plot of treason for years (because in the song: "Ready As I'll Ever Be" Cassandra in In the end it says 'Prove they can trust me', and many fans believe that this is a clue to their 'dark side'), but I believe the following:

_ Being adopted by the Captain of the Guard gave Cassandra the opportunity to live a better life than there was with her biological mother. She forgot about her suffering and thus was able to grow as a person by becoming friends with Rapunzel as well as a future member of the Royal Guard (perhaps her father's successor). But, when Cassandra relived her childhood trauma and was manipulated by the "Enchanted Girl" / Zhan Tiri, that triggered hatred and several very dangerous feelings towards her friends and making her vulnerable to the "Enchanted Girl" / Zhan Tiri will insult her and 'help' to cause damage and finally be her escape pass from her prison in that magical dimension in which she was trapped.

_Although I could be mistaken. Throughout the third season Cassandra acts a lot as if she had kept her fury for years, giving more points in favor of the theory in which she was resentful for a long time. Which contradicts the chapter in which we are told how Rapunzel and Cassandra became friends, "Beginnings". There it does not seem that Cassandra pretends or feels hatred towards Rapunzel. That is, the series is set after the death of Mother Gothel, Rapunzel would have told about the death of Gothel Cassandra was aware.

Maybe Cassandra didn't remember Gothel?

Argumental hole?

In the end you only care when you were in the magic dimension of the door?