When she is wearing her signature warrior outfit, she wears a grayish-brown shirt with a reddish one underneath, she also wears black leather gloves, a dark brown belt with a purse and a dagger inside her belt, and she also wears dark and striped leggings with many colors, and she also wears brown boots. It's a light blue and white dress with yellow stripes across the middle and two in between her legs and also with a white choker around her neck and a white headdress with a yellow ring on the top. When Cassandra is wearing her handmaiden outfit. She was voiced by Eden Espinosa as a young adult who is best known as Elphaba Thropp for the Broadway, Los Angeles, and San Francisco productions of the musical Wicked, and Cassie Glow and Hudson D'Andrea as a child in "You're Kidding Me!", "Rapunzel's Return", and "Islands Apart".Ĭassandra is a pale-skinned medium height young woman with dark pink lips, hazel eyes, and chin-length black hair with gray highlights.
In the first episode of the third season, after her betrayal, she is revealed to be the daughter of the late Mother Gothel, the main antagonist of the original Tangled film.
She is also a protagonist in the Tangled: The Series comics which feature her before she turns evil. After the defeat of Zhan Tiri, Cassandra reunites with Rapunzel. After Zhan Tiri steals both the Sunstone and Moonstone, Cassandra teams up with Rapunzel to save Corona. She initially starts off as the deuteragonist of Tangled: Before Ever After, and then the tritagonist of Tangled: The Series, serving as Rapunzel's lady-in-waiting and her best friend in first two seasons of the show, but at the end of the 2nd season she betrays Rapunzel in order to obtain the power of the Moonstone all for herself in order to fulfill her own "destiny" becoming the central antagonist of the final season.ĭespite her villainous role in the third season, she is merely a pawn of Zhan Tiri in its grand scheme to obtain both the powers of the Sunstone and the Moonstone, so it could use their power once again in order to destroy Corona. Our universal desire to circumvent pain and grief makes something like this entirely plausible, if not from a scientific and technological perspective, then from an ideological and motivational one.Cassandra is a major character in Disney's Tangled animated franchise. The robot element may be a long way off, but we live in a world technology is created to solve problems and to eliminate the things that make us uncomfortable. This Ashbot seems inevitable in one form or another. This is not simply a fantasy parable, either. It’s a victory of storytelling because it conveys a timeless message with grace and poise through the lens of people, not technology. It’s not only a great narrative and an affecting story, but a stunning, linear meditation on grief and love so intentioned that we experience the exact right realizations at the exact right moments with painful clarity. It gets done in 50 minutes what hundreds of films and books and television shows have attempted, with varying degrees of success. There isn’t another episode of Black Mirror that’s carries as much emotional weight as this one, or that tells a story quite as well. It’s a little bit amazing and a lot unnerving, and Martha’s relationship with the Ash A.I.
She goes a step further, buying a walking, talking, breathing body for the Ashbot, complete with synthetic skin that features every wrinkle, line, and mole that Ash had. Soon, it’s not enough to talk on the phone. feels so authentic, where is the difference between the real, fragile thing and the thing that lives forever beyond a bodily presence? We know it exists, but can we point to it and identify it? And if we can’t, what does that mean? She gives it more to work with: more videos, new phrases, inside jokes.Īs the bot gets better and more real, and Martha seems happy in a way that did not seem possible before, it leads us to question what, exactly, we love about a person. She tells it stories about things it couldn’t learn online. Martha spends hours on the phone with the A.I., taking solace in the fact that it talks like Ash, laughs like Ash, and says things that Ash would have said. It begins with a chat, but quickly escalates.