I can’t say I’m a fan or not a fan of Disney. Disney’s omnipresent enough it sort of doesn’t make sense. But their upcoming show Descendents, which is a school drama where the children of four villains experience (?) redemption among the children of heroes sounded sort of like Ever After High envy . . . and the first picture isn’t promising.
Now I won’t cast aspersions on the young actors. If Disney taps you for some big, if insane, effort, you go. You get to play a Disney Villain, which almost without exception are a heck of a lot of fun. But as for the characters:
- Jay, Jafar’s son doesn’t look like the descendent of any kind of wizard. He looks a bit too generic thug-bad-boy. Could someone give him something wizardly looking?
- Carlos, son of Cruella De Ville is definitely rocking the retro-80’s hair look with his mom’s signature color scheme, and his clothing color scheme is also appropriate. I kinda dig the semi-Billy Idol. It’s just this is not the son of a fashion icon – in his case “did your mom dress you this morning” should be a compliment.
- Mal, Malefecent’s daughter needs some kind of horn getup. She’s not even Maleficent-like (take a hint from Carlos). Also we’re not exactly talking “sorceress” here.
- Evie, the Evil Queen’s daughter . . . well not sure on this one either, costume-wise. Needs something more like mom.
So really it looks like Generic Punks causing trouble. I’m still figuring out how the descendent of a world famous fashion icon ends up in a magical world. Maybe mom got a taste for dragon skin dresses and things went terrible wrong. Which is probably better than this plot.
Go look at Disney Characters As Warriors. Far more awesome.
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