D82 wrote:I've also enjoyed it more than I thought I'd do at first. I'm really glad they decided to make it. Though the stories have been usually interesting and the main plot suspenseful, to me the best part have been the characters as well. I like both Rapunzel and Eugene in the movie, but here they've developed their personalities more and have made them more unique. It's great that the original voice actors reprised their roles; they're also a big part of the reason why the characters are so good. And, of course, I'm so glad Menken also returned for the series. His songs have been better in general than I expected for a TV show like this. Glenn Slater has also done a decent job with the lyrics, in my opinion.
I agree with all this. I love Rapunzel and now I love Eugene, too; I think I like Pascal more than I did in the movie now, too. He just had a lot of little moments. Also loved Cassandra, Varian, Lance, Maximus, and Zhan Tiri.
It's really amazing what you can do with a story when you try. I always thought a series for
Tangled would have trouble coming up with stories, the same as with
Beauty and the Beast and
Cinderella (I'm referring to those DTV sequels that were aborted TV series' episodes).
If I had to rank all the movie-based series I've seen:
1.
Aladdin ~ Like with this show, I liked the TV series more than the movie itself.
2.
Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure
3.
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ~ This is pretty much how I was introduced to the
Pooh characters. My mother for whatever reason never bought anything
Pooh-related, so I didn't see the original shorts until I was a teenager at least. I'm most attached to Sabsom's Rabbit and maybe this show being my intro to the characters is the reason Rabbit is my favorite. In the original shorts, he doesn't stand out as much. I probably like Gopher more than people who first saw the shorts, too.
4.
Hercules ~ I don't think this show was that good. The weirdest thing is some of the episodes looked really fantastic, and others looked horrible. I guess they didn't have a good enough budget to animate all the episodes at the same level. Because of the design style of
Hercules, those badly-animated episodes were really hard to look at. Still, I'm glad this show happened just because I loved
Hercules.
5.
The Little Mermaid ~ It has a few great episodes. Like, for example, the one where Ariel gets a bracelet locked on her wrist and is afraid to go home. Like with
Hercules, some episodes of the TLM series were higher quality animation than others and this was of the better-animated episodes. That episode also had a lot of mood, tension, terror, etc. I love the ending when Triton rescues her. It's funny, Ariel getting stuck in some creepy, unknown area is sort of like an underwater Wonderland story. Overall, the series is weaker than others, but I enjoy it anyway because of nostalgia and the characters themselves. I do like Urchin and Gabriella, as well as some of the songs (particularly "In Harmony").
7.
Jungle Cubs ~ This show is almost nothing like TJB to me. I always enjoyed it for some reason though, although it's not as good as the others.
8.
Timon & Pumbaa ~ I'm not a big fan of T&P--I don't hate them or anything though--but this show always annoyed me.
I've only seen a little of the TENG,
Lilo & Stitch, and BH6 series, so I can't say about them. I used to really not like L&S the movie, only recently has that opinion changed, which is why I never saw its series. I would've watched TENG and BH6 is the animation wasn't so hard to look at.
I wish BH6 had followed
Tangled's lead by looking similar to the hand-drawn art shown in the end credits; I thought those hand-drawn versions of the characters looked better than the 3D designs, personally. I would've watched that show.
Tarzan's show simply aired at odd times so I was never able to see it; the few episodes I did see were interesting. It was an eyesore, too, though.
Thanks for posting these. I haven't listened to any of the songs from this season aside from when the episodes aired. I decided to watch NLtL again. It's definitely my favorite song where Varian is featured. I just love Varian's voice actor; Jeremy Jordan has such a
beautiful voice. I like him better than any of the singers from the film that carried over onto the show, though that wasn't really a contest.
Eden Espinosa is good, too, but the only other voice that competes with his for me is Iglehart. Iglehart has a lot of range and personality, just like when he played Genie, but I don't think his voice is as flat-out gorgeous as Jordan's is to me. Plus, Iglehart never got much to do playing Lance, sadly. Iglehart and Jordan are definitely people whose careers I'll follow, although I'm wishing the best for everyone involved with this show to get more work going forward (including the writers).
I hope one day, this will get a full release; the same thing I've been hoping for several other Disney shows.
