[innerSpaceman]

Well, then was anyone bothered by Merida being a brat and kinda mean and her arc being simply to grow up a little? I know that's a standard arc for a teen lead ... but I hate that kind of thing, because it requires your lead to be a brat and mean, and I don't find that particularly likable in a character.

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I know Merida was supposed to be a little naive and in-the-dark about how the witch's spell would change her mom ... but really, she seemed to be taking a rather nonchalant chance about her mother, mad at her or not, and I found that incredibly mean ... even for a teen!

So I guess that's rather in line for fairytale type stories. But isn't anyone more upset about the fairy tale heroine being just as STUPID as every other fairy tale heroine? Perhaps more upset by that than how glad that she's too young or stubborn or lesbian to want to be married off??

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Also, her main gender-noncomformity skill seemed to be archery ... but where did that pay off for her? She hit the mean bear 30 times alright, but it didn't effect him one bit. I'm really at a loss at what was supposed to be so groundbreaking about her butch princessness?