ABC’S Once Upon A Time Introduces Frozen Characters ABC’S Once Upon A Time Introduces Frozen Characters
BY RACHEL CALLAHAN At the end of the third season of Once Upon A Time, a very familiar character made a dramatic entrance into the town of Storybrooke. The highly anticipated... ABC’S Once Upon A Time Introduces Frozen Characters
PHOTO CREDIT: OFFICIAL SHOW POSTER

PHOTO CREDIT: OFFICIAL SHOW POSTER

BY RACHEL CALLAHAN

At the end of the third season of Once Upon A Time, a very familiar character made a dramatic entrance into the town of Storybrooke. The highly anticipated season 4 premiere centered mainly around new addition, Elsa (Georgina Haig), the ice queen from the movie Frozen.

Season 4’s opener, “A Tale of Two Sisters”, delved into details surrounding the death of Anna (Elizabeth Lail) and Elsa’s parents, which results in Anna embarking on a quest to Mist Haven, aka the Enchanted Forest. Unlike other villains the show has introduced, Elsa’s purpose for being in Storybrooke is not magic, power, or revenge, but simply to find her missing sister. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like she will be able to accomplish this without first freezing the entire town and sending giant magical snowman after the residents.

Even with the introduction of new characters, the highlight of the show remains Regina Mills/The Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla). The ice queen has no chance of holding a candle to the queen of mean. She is the constant voice of realism on a show that sometimes gets a little too carried away with unrealistic fairy-tale endings.

Elsa, Anna, Kristoff (Scott Michael Foster), and even Sven made an appearance in the premiere. Surprisingly, they also put  a lot of effort into bringing the magical talking rock trolls into the story but somehow left out everyone’s favorite snowman, Olaf. I’m sorry, but if they’re going to make fans get on board with magical talking trolls, they may as well give us what we really want: a magical talking snowman.

Overall, the introduction of Frozen to Once Upon A Time wasn’t a complete train wreck. If they can do it right, Frozen could be just the thing the show needs to keep going. The only thing that would definitely deter fans is if the characters break out in song. It would, however, be very welcomed for a character to tell Elsa to “let it go”.