Talk:Queen Elsa/@comment-74.99.65.62-20160916023306/@comment-74.99.65.62-20160920175247

 The thing that I will have the hardest time forgiving in this film is the criminally underdeveloped character of Elsa. Even with her shorter screentime, she was by far the most interesting character in the cast. Her powers, her pathos, even her design intrigue us and draw us in. If you’re going to make the Snow Queen into a protagonist, this was the way to do it. But why was she so backseated? I don't like that idea of poor Elsa being backseated at all. I wanted to see more of her In the film’s beginning. I wanted to see her her storyline. After she fled and built her ice palace was the point in the film where I was genuinely the most excited. It was so satisfying to see that painfully subdued character let loose and belt it all out, brimming with confidence. It was such an open door for transformation, perhaps even for her to go a little dark and have her sister bring her back out of it later. Nothing like that happened. The next time we see Elsa after her big solo, the fear instantly comes back. The confidence disappears. She freaks out, and once Anna is chased away, Elsa is attacked, manipulated, imprisoned, and totally crushed by the story that she SHOULD've had the greatest influence over back then before. I remember wondering at several points after that horrid troll song. “Where the hell is Elsa, what happened to her— oh right in a cell”. Hell she was totally subdued by a man who literally had no physical power over her, who only needed to speak a few paltry lies to turn her into a heap on the ground. Poor Elsa had agency only for a few minutes in this film before it was wrenched away again, and I would wish for a sequel to Frozen if only to see more of the woman who sang this song on the screen where she belongs. Elsa really needs a longer screen time than ever more than only just a few minutes, doesn't she?