Maybe have him covering up how he feels, not wanting to upset Rapunzel. Changing Eugene’s story in ‘Be Very Afraid’ - instead of just making jokes about how Eugene’s obsessed with his appearance, acknowledge his trauma!! He died!! In a horrifying way! This would affect him! I’ve talked about this before but: And Varian gets to interact with his weird aunt and uncles. This makes what happens later with the mindtrap more effective because we care more about them and their relationships. The Brotherhood has been struggling to come back together and this forces them to work together (the animals can help too, mainly for comedy). But instead of the animals - it’s Quirin, Edmund, Adira and Hector trying to save them. ‘Day of the Animals’ is switched to ‘Day of the Brotherhood’ - oh yeah! Keeping Rapunzel, Varian, Angry and Catalina being stuck in the shell and all their amazing interactions. And Ariana and Rapunzel can talk about Gothel and how it affected both of them (Cass’ revelation bringing up a lot of unresolved feelings) Like he doesn’t remember what happened so Rapunzel has to explain it to him and she tells him how hurt she was by how he treated her and he apologises. I kind of… hate Fredrick as a character, so I would like in ‘The King and Queen of Hearts’ if his actions in Season 1 had some consequences. The other is Cass and Zhan Tiri, slowly building up Zhan Tiri as a villian. One is Eugene and Rapunzel working through their disagreement and their complicated grief over Cass, initially at odds but coming together by the end of the episode. ‘No Time Like the Past’ is completely changed up - there are two parallel stories here.

In ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf’ we get more Lance! Lance protecting Angry and Catalina, Lance and Rapunzel working together to help the girls, Lance starting to realise how much they mean to him Gothel leaving Cass was a catalyst, but there was a lot of issues for Cass before that - with her Dad, with her friendship with Raps, with always being second best and overlooked. Zhan Tiri provokes those feelings of insecurity, jealousy and hurt in Cass, especially focusing on what happened to her hand (and we see Cass struggling with her hand! that’s ongoing) More of the manipulations, how she subtly will bring up ideas and continue pulling at that thread.

We see more of Cassandra’s time with Zhan Tiri. (for the record I love the series and do really enjoy season 3, but I think changing some things would help the flow and character arcs, and there’s stuff I wish the show had covered)

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