good or anything, honestly this series was way overdue for aughties Disney self-aware self-dunks, but because there is a nonzero chance that I was the cartoon overthinker to whom this moment was responding. This movie was released on August NUMBER_TOKEN, NUMBER_TOKEN, just under one year after I made my video largely talking about what a dip Derek is for very similar reasons. That’s some pretty tight timing in the world of animation and my channel was teeny tiny at that point, but the reason that video eventually blew up like it did was that at the time there weren’t many videos on YouTube talking about The Swan Princess at all, so it’s not outside the realm of possibility, especially if anyone had Google alerts enabled, and I don’t have anything more to say about it other than it’s pretty damn surreal. But anyway this is basically all we get of this storyline’s potential, Odette and Derek strike out almost immediately and put Ghost Scully on the case because this is not the A plot! That is The Swan Princess: Love Triangle! Much more interesting and important! Alise is turning NUMBER_TOKEN, and so we’re having a big ball for her birthday, and Lucas is back in town and there are spaaaarks flyyyying. >Wow, you’ve grown up! >You too! But then there’s also Prince Li, Mei Li’s brother, who’s visiting and he’s super uppity and Alise is all carefree and she totally offends him both accidentally and by purposefully calling ‘em like she sees ‘em, but oh look now they’re playing the harp together, ahhhhhh, enemies to looooveeeeers, who’s she gonna piiiick? This arc is fun enough, I dunno, it’s kind of nice to take a break from any big major scary antagonist and just get down into the interpersonal drama. It also gets big points from me for actually being the resolution of the Mei Li/Chen situation. The whole thing was that the spell would be broken when the emperor’s child gave up their love, and everyone assumed that meant Mei Li giving up Chen. But then Li sees that Alise is really in love with Lucas so he sacrifices his spot on her dance card to make sure they have a super romantic moment to realize and confess their feelings! Li gave up his love, he’s the emperor’s child, so the spell is broken! It’s cute, I dunno, I like it. I’m also a big fan of princess movies where we actually get to see princesses doing politics, and I like seeing the difference between kid Odette from the first movie, who was really good at her job but also liked to screw around and knew exactly where the line was and what she could get away with, and Alise, who just truly does not give a single fuck, and if anyone had bothered to keep track of Odette as a character instead of just turning her into resourceful Barbie there could be some really cool mother daughter stuff in there, like she could be like “I know you like playing pirates, but you can’t just insult our guests like that, you’re a princess now and you could literally start a war if you don’t
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