#I appreciate that the king was very clearly a jab at Disney hoarding IPs though. I liked that too hgkh

[angeltannis]

Watched the deleted storyboard scene from the original, totally different iteration of Wish…

And while I definitely agree it’s entirely better than anything that actually made it into the final product, I also do agree with Whoever at Disney that said Star’s personality completely overshadows Asha’s. I can see from this clip how that might have been a huge problem with the whole first incarnation of the movie. Making her yet another Adorkable Disney Princess in the final draft was a bland choice, but there are plenty of things in between those extremes that they could have done. It’s a shame they didn’t bother.

I don’t think it comes from a place of goodwill for most people (many of whom were ridiculously harsh on Asha from the moment she was revealed), but I actually like the fan theory that canon Asha is somewhat in the wrong and that the King had a very flawed but (somewhat) effective system going - granting wishes he’s deemed safe to grant, looking after all the others, not asking anything in return* - and that Asha, in her youthful idealism, barged in and smashed that system to pieces with no functional follow-up plan. I think she’s going to be in way over her head, grant wishes that turn out to be harmful or dangerous, and maybe she’ll even have to work with the imprisoned king to try to fix things much like another young magical girl fave of mine and her bound demon bestie - and that potential makes her interesting to me. Whether Disney intended it or not 😆

*ftr I don’t agree he was a good ruler, and I think most of the flavors of this theory come across as bootlicking the monarchy lol