We have the Snow Flake and the Sugar Plum courts, which both celebrate the death of the Mouse King but no real sense of the backstory there. We have Herr Drosselmeyer who has no known motivation. And we have the Nutcracker Prince who went through an odd transformation, was sent to protect Clara, and yet in the end requires saving and is her escort rather than guard.
With so many mysterious alliances, or lacks thereof, surely there's a way of making a twist. Probably about who the Mouse King really was, and what Drosselmeyer had to do with him and the courts. What do you think?
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Date: 2009-12-15 08:24 pm (UTC)We have the Snow Flake and the Sugar Plum courts, which both celebrate the death of the Mouse King but no real sense of the backstory there. We have Herr Drosselmeyer who has no known motivation. And we have the Nutcracker Prince who went through an odd transformation, was sent to protect Clara, and yet in the end requires saving and is her escort rather than guard.
With so many mysterious alliances, or lacks thereof, surely there's a way of making a twist. Probably about who the Mouse King really was, and what Drosselmeyer had to do with him and the courts. What do you think?