#BringElsaHome #HappyBirthdayIdina

Happiest of belated birthdays to Idina Menzel! Thank you for gifting us such a wonderful Elsa, and Elphaba, Maureen, Shelby, Elizabeth.... the list keeps going.

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I've used #BringElsaHome as I don't understand why she would stay in the forest. Especially as the prequels to Frozen 2, the comics, they all discuss Elsa being a natural leader who enjoys Arendelle. I completely understand Into The Unknown, and why she would leave, of course she's going to have wondered why her powers exist, and being 24 during the sequel she is of an age of exploration, and wanting to see more of the world discovering who you are.

In a deleted scene, Anna says to Elsa "You're not coming home, are you?" having faced losing Olaf and Elsa simultaneously just moments before in the movie, under the impression her home has also been destroyed, Anna handles Elsa's permanent departure from Arendelle remarkably well when she learns that everything is intact. Perhaps it's just because she's happy she's alive, but for a character that so clearly has attachment and abandonment issues, who went through a traumatic ordeal, I feel the movie glossed over those potential feelings, aside from some tears she's so cool about it. Pushed away by E again although out of protection and the forest incident where she ran into fire. Anna is panicking about E during the movie constantly checking in, but no words need to be said about it once it's over, because apparently they are a bridge, and they "did this together". Outlined in this edit, they are once again back to communicating through letters. According to the comics, Elsa doesn't visit much either. A is such a free adventurous spirit, who has never once expressed wanting to be Queen. She loves Arendelle, she would of course do an amazing job, but it feels OOC.

Moreover, Elsa got to see their mother one last time closure. Anna however, didn't receive closure. A deleted scene shows Anna seeing a memory of their parents in which they say "She has a love that could hold up the world", that scene was removed so now, the last memory existing for Anna was watching their final moments in that ship which she had no choice but to see as Elsa went ahead and did it without much warning. These factors feels like Anna's character was neglected, ending with nonchalance is bizarre.

Elaborating on the deleted scene, E goes on to say "I don't know how the forest needs me now, but I want to be there when it does" they travelled to the Enchanted Forest just fine before? Why does she now need to live there? The movie doesn't explain what exactly she does whilst staying there, there's no transitional period of change either they both just part ways? , It doesn't seem the writers fully understand the forest and it's role either. To coincide with why would she stay in the forest, it also begs the question why would she leave A? In OFA they had a whole song about how being together meant that they'll "forever feel at home", that they have everything they could ever wish for. After years of separation, why have they once again been separated when there's been no build up to this dissatisfied need to venture further apart?

Moana does a brilliant job at portraying Moana's wish to explore the world, her motive is clear, and it is paced well. Frozen 2 however, has prequels. It has to be in line with the previous movies. Elsa hasn't expressed an innate desire to leave Arendelle, nor is it developed in the movie. At the moment, it just feels like a good deed that she's become too involved in. Fifth spirit or not, she is first and foremost Elsa, sister to Anna. The whole premise of these movies is on familial love.

If it's a means of developing the sisters individually, they did that in the first movie just fine. I'm just struggling to understand at what point both Anna and Elsa agreed that the current arrangement displayed at the end of the movie works for them? It went from visiting Ahtohallan and resolving the past to somehow moving away. Given that Anna spent years just trying to be in the same room as Elsa, moving out would be a huge deal for them both. It could be argued it was showing that they moved on but Elsa still blames herself for her parents death (that wasn't addressed later either) and still falls back on pushing Anna away to protect her.

#BringElsaHome. I hope that the first minutes of a future movie because I'm assuming we're having a trilogy will have Elsa being "whatever she needs to be", and then returning home. Because it feels so out of character for them. BTW Having Honeymaren tell Elsa "you belong here" felt like a cop out, and it stung a little that Elsa apparently believed it because she's now there. Maybe an attempt of showing how you can be together and apart equally, that love knows no distance but it was abrupt and not executed well.


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