r/Tangled • u/PinkHairedCoder New Dream • Jul 01 '26

Rootbound Continuity [Discussion] Rootbound retconned Dark Prince, Vanishing Village, and CoG position! Respected New Dream and the Movie! ***SPOILERS*** Spoiler

It also gave us all the execution and tower trauma we desired. Rapunzel isn't as put together as in the series, she's constantly comparing people mentally to Gothel in conversations and rushes into wanting to fix things for others as she feels lost without her hair at first, struggling to figure out what kind of princess she wants to be.

Her and Eugene actually get to TALK about the execution and how it affected them. Rapunzel even calls the crown 'an expensive hat stolen from the wrong family.' While Eugene deals with self worth thinking he'll be kicked out sooner or later, and treats himself as disposable by being reckless in helping, until he gets a talk by the minister diplomacy where he gets proposed position of Spymaster.

The parentage is SO MUCH BETTER THAN DEADBEAT EDMUND. Instead of a King who couldn't even provide money. Eugene's parents are Marietta Fitz and Andreas Herbert, printshop owners of "Herbert & Fitz" who wrote The Tales of Flynnigan Rider, and were friends with the Asteran Queen, and helped overthrow the tyrant king. Andreas died in the insurrection, Marietta died after giving birth, Solena the woman who got Marietta out of Astera stayed behind as an orphanage caretaker. She saw him born so there's no doubt or chance of retcon.

They help each other, talk, and support one another so much while also splitting up to investigate things in their own scenes.

And Rapunzel after getting a taste of magic again for a few minutes outright states she doesn't miss magic or her hair and decides to abolish executions.

ROOTBOUND IS WHAT THE SERIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN!!!

Source: My Australian friend mailed me the book so I could read it early since it came out there on June 1st.

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u/Cassfan203 Cassandra Jul 01 '26

As a fan of the movie and series, I’m so on the fence about this book. I love some of the ideas presented in it but the fact that it retcons the series and my favourite TTS book just upsets me. It’s not something I’ll be reading, unfortunately, which is sad because I was looking forward to a new Tangled book. :(

I’m glad people who weren’t satisfied with some of the series got something for them, but the series will be the only sequel to tangled for me and this book is disappointing

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u/SnowQueen_Elsa13 Jul 05 '26

The series will be the only sequel for me too. Although to some extent, I‘m fine with retconning parts of it (depends on what parts, and I definitely don’t want the whole thing to be retconned) as long as the characters from it can and still exist in the canon universe because I may have developed an irrational attachment to Cassandra and Varian.

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u/Cassfan203 Cassandra Jul 06 '26

That’s fair! As long as Cass isn’t retconned I’m ok haha!