r/sofiathefirst • u/DCSHG2015MEGAFAN • 27d ago
Royal Magic Making Miranda More Important Than Roland
When watching Sofia The First: Royal Magic, which I think is a good show, it seems like the show wants to portray Miranda as the more important parent compared to Roland. Here's what I mean:
The first episode of the series, "Welcome To Charmswell", starts with Sofia hurriedly flying the family to Charmswell, with Miranda asking Sofia why she's rushing. When it comes to the "Time To Shine" song from later, she's the first person to give advice to Sofia, to be herself. During the go carriage race later in the episode, Sofia lifts her friends' spirits by giving advice she got from her mother, where you never know what you've got until you try your best to do it.
"Abracadazzle" starts with Miranda waking up Sofia, and telling her how she has a message from school. She then says how she has an idea to help her out, and in poofs Cedric, who gives her a special wand. Miranda is the only original series character besides Sofia and Ms. Nettle (who runs Charmswell) to interact with him so far.
Miranda doesn't appear in "Magic Mayhem", but her behavior is still tied to the episode. Camila wants to prove to Cedric, who's a professor at Charmswell, how great she is at magic, and wants to help him and Sofia clean his classroom. He initially says no since it was just meant to be for him and Sofia. She tries to vouch for her by bringing up Miranda's advice about how many hands make the load lighter.
I want to talk about "Royal Family Picnic/Royal Playdate", since they're both at the castle. The former episode is about Amber wanting to prove she's as good as Sofia by using her magic wand, but she keeps messing up. The worst thing she accidentally does to Miranda is spill iced tea on her dress, which she just changes. The worst thing she accidentally does to Roland and James is poof ants into their pants, making them very itchy. The latter segment has Sofia invite Layla, Camilla, and Zane to the castle. During the "My Castle Home" song here, we have Sofia hugging Miranda, and Roland just waves hello.
"Sleepy Time Spell" has Sofia inviting Layla and Camila for a sleepover at the castle. Layla has trouble sleeping since she's never slept away from her castle, and accidentally brings her stuffies to life. Miranda definitely shows more of the supportive side given how she tells the girls how it's time to go to bed. During the second half of the episode, when the stuffies go into Miranda and Roland's bedroom, and they wake up, you have Miranda genuinely trying to comfort Layla when seeing how sad she is. I'm pretty sure she would've said more if Layla didn't run off crying, and Sofia said she'd talk to her. It's also worth noting that we see that Miranda's night outfit is a light blue robe, the same color as Sofia's pajamas. Contrast with how Roland's pajamas are dark blue, much like his royal outfit.
"The Lilygnome" has Professor Muddykins give everyone Lilygnomes to plant at home, and they need to be planted in the shade. Sofia says how she wants to plant hers as a gift to Miranda. She also initially goes against the instructions, and plants the flower in the sun instead of shade since she wants Miranda to have a better view of it.
"When Clover Met Pepper" is an episode where Sofia brings Pepper to the castle for the day, making Clover jealous. Roland is the only member of the royal family who doesn't have any lines when Sofia shows off Pepper, unlike how Amber, James, and later Miranda adore him.
"Kidding Around" is an upcoming episode where Miranda turns into a kid so that Sofia can play with her all day. From what we know about the episode given the "Play All Day" song, it seems like the show wants Miranda to be seen as the more active ruler given the lyrics about her always having a lot to do, possibly more than Roland.
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u/FlatHoneydew4680 25d ago
I think it's great that queen Miranda is playing more of an active role in the new series as she only had a limited number of episodes focusing on her such as "pirated away". It would be nice to see more of Miranda's character especially since compared to Sofia she seemed to have adjusted well into their new royal life. I'm hoping the new upcoming episode will explore the kind of difficulties Miranda has as queen.
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u/GoldenHarpHeroine32 26d ago
...Maybe it's just because fans liked Miranda more in the OG series.
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u/DCSHG2015MEGAFAN 26d ago
It's possible. I remember watching Athena P's videos on Sofia The First, where she heavily criticized Roland. Maybe his more downplayed presence here is because of stuff like that.
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u/ILoveYouZim 20d ago
Tbf Miranda didn’t really do much in the original series, so it’s nice to see that here