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* BadassBaritone: The bear has a very deep voice.
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A 2002 Hallmark miniseries adaptation of ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' by Hans Christian Anderson. It stars Creator/BridgetFonda in the title role, and is directed by David Wu.
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A 2002 Hallmark miniseries adaptation of ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' by Hans Christian Anderson. It stars Creator/BridgetFonda in the title role, role (and her final role before her retirement), and is directed by David Wu.
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* DudeMagnet: The Snow Queen, unsurprisingly, isn't sparse in male admirers. Both Kai and the talking polar bear dig her. Then there's [[spoiler: all the previous young men she seduced and kept frozen.]]
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* AsianAirhead: The Summer Princess is the Tipton variety.
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* NiceHat: All the seasonal women except the Autumn Robber.
** The Snow Queen has a big fur hat she wears at the hotel.
** The Spring Witch has a hat decorated with flowers (which is true to the original book).
** The Summer Princess has a CoolCrown that she even wears while sleeping.
** The Snow Queen has a big fur hat she wears at the hotel.
** The Spring Witch has a hat decorated with flowers (which is true to the original book).
** The Summer Princess has a CoolCrown that she even wears while sleeping.
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* KnifeNut: The Robber Girl's preferred weapon is a small knife. She even sleeps with it across Gerda's throat.
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The overall plot is the same as the fairy tale - though the child protagonists are now young adults. Gerda (Chelsea Hobbs) is a lonely young woman whose father has been distant from her ever since her mother died years ago. All of that seems to change when a young man called Kai (Jeremy Guilbaut) arrives to work in her father's hotel. Naturally they fall in love...until the Snow Queen comes to claim him.
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The overall plot is the same as the fairy tale - though the child protagonists are now young adults. Gerda (Chelsea Hobbs) (Creator/ChelseaHobbs) is a lonely young woman whose father has been distant from her ever since her mother died years ago. All of that seems to change when a young man called Kai (Jeremy Guilbaut) arrives to work in her father's hotel. Naturally they fall in love...until the Snow Queen comes to claim him.
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A 2002 Hallmark miniseries adaptation of ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' by Hans Christian Anderson. It stars Bridget Fonda in the title role, and is directed by David Wu.
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A 2002 Hallmark miniseries adaptation of ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' by Hans Christian Anderson. It stars Bridget Fonda Creator/BridgetFonda in the title role, and is directed by David Wu.
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* BerserkButton: The Snow Queen's [[Main/SuddenlyShouting reaction]] to Kai's insistence he make a fire is the only time she loses her [[Main/IncrediblyLamePun cool]]. This makes sense as she's WeakToFire.
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* BerserkButton: The Snow Queen's [[Main/SuddenlyShouting reaction]] to Kai's insistence he make a fire is the only time she loses her [[Main/IncrediblyLamePun cool]].cool. This makes sense as she's WeakToFire.
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* BreastAttack: How Gerda defeats the Snow Queen. [[spoiler: The former sticking her mother's rose brooch, which has heat, on the latter's left breast]].
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* BreastAttack: How Gerda defeats the Snow Queen. [[spoiler: The former sticking her mother's rose brooch, which has heat, on the latter's left breast]].
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* BerserkButton: The Snow Queen's [[Main/SuddenlyShouting reaction]] to Kai's insistence he make a fire is the only time she loses her [[Main/IncrediblyLamePun cool]]. This makes sense as she's WeakToFire.
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* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The seasonal women of course. The Snow Queen is blonde (well white blonde), The Spring Witch is brunette and the Autumn Robber is redhead. The Summer Princess adds black hair to the mix.
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* BreastAttack: How Gerda defeats the Snow Queen. [[spoiler: The former sticking her mother's rose brooch, which has heat, on the latter's left breast]].
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The seasonal women of course. The Snow Queen is blonde(well white (white blonde), The Spring Witch is brunette and the Autumn Robber is redhead. The Summer Princess adds black hair to the mix.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The seasonal women of course. The Snow Queen is blonde
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** The princess was completely SpoiledSweet in the original tale. Here she's more cunning and tries to get Gerda to stay with her.
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* ThirdPersonPerson: Chen always refers to himself like this; see also YouNoTakeCandle.
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* ActionSurvivor: Neither Gerda nor Kai are trained fighters, but they hold their own reasonably well against the other supernatural creatures.
* ActionizedAdaptation: While the fairy tale was an adventure, this miniseries includes more action. Gerda for instance has to flee the Summer Palace, tries to escape the robbers twice [[spoiler: and fights off the Robber Girl. There's also an action-packed climax in the Snow Queen's palace]].
* ActionizedAdaptation: While the fairy tale was an adventure, this miniseries includes more action. Gerda for instance has to flee the Summer Palace, tries to escape the robbers twice [[spoiler: and fights off the Robber Girl. There's also an action-packed climax in the Snow Queen's palace]].
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* AdaptationalBadass: The Queen becomes a lot more ruthless with her powers.
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* AdaptationalBadass: AdaptationalBadass:
** The Queen becomes a lot more ruthless with her powers. She even tries to impale Gerda with icicles and her evil plan is to turn the entire world into an endless winter.
** Kai easily falls under the mirror's influence in the original. Here he's able to resist it a lot more - even writing Gerda a note pleading for help right before he's kidnapped. He also tries to escape the Snow Queen's palace multiple times. [[spoiler: He also pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save Gerda]].
** Gerda too, though with her it is downplayed, as she was still TheDeterminator in the book. [[spoiler: She frees herself and Rutger from the robbers, and defeats the Snow Queen by using her mother's brooch]].
** The Queen becomes a lot more ruthless with her powers. She even tries to impale Gerda with icicles and her evil plan is to turn the entire world into an endless winter.
** Kai easily falls under the mirror's influence in the original. Here he's able to resist it a lot more - even writing Gerda a note pleading for help right before he's kidnapped. He also tries to escape the Snow Queen's palace multiple times. [[spoiler: He also pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save Gerda]].
** Gerda too, though with her it is downplayed, as she was still TheDeterminator in the book. [[spoiler: She frees herself and Rutger from the robbers, and defeats the Snow Queen by using her mother's brooch]].
** [[spoiler: The Robber Girl's HeelFaceTurn is left out, and Gerda just escapes from her. However both she and the princess do give Gerda words of encouragement in the fight with the Queen]].
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* ArcNumber: Four - Gerda now has to contend with representatives of the four seasons, Chen has auditioned four times, Kai and Gerda go on four dates, Gerda gets four suitors at the Summer Palace.
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* ArcNumber: Four - Gerda now has to contend with representatives of the four seasons, Chen has auditioned four times, Kai and Gerda go on four dates, Gerda gets four suitors at the Summer Palace.Palace, Kai is kissed three times by the Snow Queen [[spoiler: and the fourth kiss (from Gerda) frees him]].
* BadassBaritone: The bear has a very deep voice.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The seasonal women of course. The Snow Queen is blonde (well white blonde), The Spring Witch is brunette and the Autumn Robber is redhead. The Summer Princess adds black hair to the mix.
* BookEnds: The series both begins and ends with a little party in the town, with people ice skating on the lake. [[spoiler: With Wolfgang playing the clarinet]].
* BookEnds: The series both begins and ends with a little party in the town, with people ice skating on the lake. [[spoiler: With Wolfgang playing the clarinet]].
* BrickJoke: Kai makes a joke early on that Gerda will see daffodils outside if she goes ice skating. [[spoiler: The very last shot, when they are skating together shows daffodils poking up through the snow]].
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Wolfgang doesn't think Kai is good enough for Gerda.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: The Snow Queen's collar is trimmed with white feathers.
* IcyBlueEyes: Kai gets these after the mirror shard is lodged in them.
* TheLostLenore: Wolfgang is devastated by the loss of his wife, even several years later. As Minna describes winter.
--> "It took her mother's life, and her father's joy."
* MagicKiss: The Snow Queen kisses Kai three times. The first puts him to sleep, allowing her to kidnap him. The second [[spoiler: gives him the chance to put the mirror back together. The third dislodges the mirror shard from his eye, with the price that he freezes over]].
* ManHug: [[spoiler: When Gerda and Kai are back, Wolfgang at first shakes Kai's hand but then pulls him into a hug]].
--> "It took her mother's life, and her father's joy."
* MagicKiss: The Snow Queen kisses Kai three times. The first puts him to sleep, allowing her to kidnap him. The second [[spoiler: gives him the chance to put the mirror back together. The third dislodges the mirror shard from his eye, with the price that he freezes over]].
* ManHug: [[spoiler: When Gerda and Kai are back, Wolfgang at first shakes Kai's hand but then pulls him into a hug]].
* OrphansPlotTrinket: Gerda only lost one parent but the brooch from her mother still fits. [[spoiler: It has natural heat that's powerful enough to defrost the Snow Queen's heart]].
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: In the fairy tale, angels appeared to help Gerda in the Snow Queen's palace. Here this comes in the form of her mother's spirit]].
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: In the fairy tale, angels appeared to help Gerda in the Snow Queen's palace. Here this comes in the form of her mother's spirit]].
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The witch, the princess and the robber are all sisters to the Snow Queen here.
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The witch, the princess and the robber queen are all sisters to the Snow Queen here.
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* SeasonalBaggage: This version plays up the seasonal aspect of the story. After the Snow Queen kidnaps Kai, Gerda has to travel through each of the other seasons before she can get to her.
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* SeasonalBaggage: This version plays up the seasonal aspect of the story. After the Snow Queen kidnaps Kai, Gerda has to travel through each of the other seasons before she can get to her. There's also an underlying element of class; Summer is represented by a princess with a palace, Spring by a witch with a comfortable middle-class country house and garden, and Autumn by bandits who live in tents. Winter's representation likewise is someone who wishes to be a queen.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: [[spoiler: This is the form the bear takes at the end]].
* TriumphantReprise: A triumphant swelling version of "The Two of Us Will Always Be One" plays [[spoiler: as the Snow Queen's palace turns into the white bear hotel]].
* TrueLovesKiss: [[spoiler: How else would Gerda save Kai?]]
* TrueLovesKiss: [[spoiler: How else would Gerda save Kai?]]
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never said where the story is set, as the entire cast is Canadian (though some new characters have Scandinavian names). Minna for example is Irish, which would make more sense if the story was set in Canada. So it's unconfirmed if it's a SettingUpdate or everyone is just NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.
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* WhenSheSmiles:
** Gerda looks rather glum for the first part of the story, and only smiles when Kai charms her.
** Wolfgang is a PerpetualFrowner and literally doesn't smile until the last scene.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never said where the story is set, as the entire cast is Canadian (though some new characters have Scandinavian names). Minna for example is Irish, which would make more sense if the story was set in Canada. So it's unconfirmed if it's a SettingUpdate or everyone is just NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent. The Snow Queen's palace is still in Scandinavia - but it's unclear if Gerda's home is there or she just travelled there through magic.
** Gerda looks rather glum for the first part of the story, and only smiles when Kai charms her.
** Wolfgang is a PerpetualFrowner and literally doesn't smile until the last scene.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never said where the story is set, as the entire cast is Canadian (though some new characters have Scandinavian names). Minna for example is Irish, which would make more sense if the story was set in Canada. So it's unconfirmed if it's a SettingUpdate or everyone is just NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent. The Snow Queen's palace is still in Scandinavia - but it's unclear if Gerda's home is there or she just travelled there through magic.
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* ArcNumber: Four - Gerda now has to contend with representatives of the four seasons, Chen has auditioned four times, Kai and Gerda go on four dates.
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* ArcNumber: Four - Gerda now has to contend with representatives of the four seasons, Chen has auditioned four times, Kai and Gerda go on four dates.dates, Gerda gets four suitors at the Summer Palace.
* ChekhovsHobby: Kai's passion for ice skating serves him well in the Snow Queen's palace.
* CoolCar: The Snow Queen has a motor toboggan that can also fly.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Gerda waits until the Robber Girl falls asleep and escapes from her hut. [[spoiler: Too bad the guard dog wakes everyone up]].
* EyepatchOfPower: The Robber Girl wears one, and claims it was because someone shot at her. [[spoiler: It's a fake]].
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* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: The Summer Princess - the most feminine character in the story - often wears purple. In modern Chinese culture, purple represents romance - which makes sense considering she wants to be married.
* IAmAHumanitarian: The Autumn Robber initially wants Gerda to be cooked for dinner.
* KnifeNut: The Robber Girl's preferred weapon is a small knife. She even sleeps with it across Gerda's throat.
* LightIsNotGood: The seasonal women - Snow Queen, Spring Witch, Summer Princess - all wear bright colours and have light imagery. All to show how deceptive they are. The Autumn Robber meanwhile is openly antagonistic and ignores the brighter colours.
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* MysticalWhiteHair: The Snow Queen is given long white hair, and she instantly looks otherworldly as a result.
* NiceHat: All the seasonal womenactually.except the Autumn Robber.
* NiceHat: All the seasonal women
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* PrincessesPreferPink: The Summer Princesses wears pink dresses, and has Gerda wear some as well.
* SceneryPorn: The Snow Queen's palace is in the mountains - allowing for plenty of sweeping shots of them.
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* SomethingAboutARose: The rose motif is still present here. Although as opposed to growing roses across the roof from each other, Gerda's mother had a rose brooch that always kept everything warm.
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A 2002 Hallmark miniseries adaptation of ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' by Hans Christian Anderson. It stars Bridget Fonda in the title role, and is directed by David Wu.
The overall plot is the same as the fairy tale - though the child protagonists are now young adults. Gerda (Chelsea Hobbs) is a lonely young woman whose father has been distant from her ever since her mother died years ago. All of that seems to change when a young man called Kai (Jeremy Guilbaut) arrives to work in her father's hotel. Naturally they fall in love...until the Snow Queen comes to claim him.
!!Tropes:
* AdaptedOut: The Lap and Finn women are not here.
* AdaptationExpansion: It's a three-hour miniseries so quite a lot.
** Gerda is given a backstory of a mother who died in the winter, presumably killed by the Snow Queen. Said mother is also implied to have been a rival to the Queen.
** The princess is holding an engagement ball, and tries to get Gerda to find someone else to fall in love with.
** The Queen is given a polar bear servant who is secretly in love with her.
** The new boots that Gerda offers to the river are the gift that Kai gave her right before he disappeared.
** There are more scenes of Gerda's family worrying where she is.
* AdaptationNameChange: Gerda's reindeer friend is named Bae in the tale, here he is Rutger.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Each of the women Gerda meets becomes a representative of a season.
* AdaptationalBadass: The Queen becomes a lot more ruthless with her powers.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** The Snow Queen becomes the BigBad, with an evil plan of trying to turn the world into an endless winter. [[spoiler: And yet she's redeemed at the end]].
** The princess was completely SpoiledSweet in the original tale. Here she's more cunning and tries to get Gerda to stay with her.
* AgeLift: Kai and Gerda were children in the story (though they grow to adulthood over the course of their journey). Here they're both eighteen.
* ArcNumber: Four - Gerda now has to contend with representatives of the four seasons, Chen has auditioned four times, Kai and Gerda go on four dates.
* AsianAirhead: The Summer Princess is the Tipton variety.
* BearsAreBadNews: The Snow Queen has a polar bear as her [[TheDragon Dragon]]. [[spoiler: But it's ultimately he who brings about her HeelFaceTurn]].
* BoringReturnJourney: [[spoiler: Averted! Kai and Gerda are transported back home instantly after defeating the Snow Queen]].
* BrokenMasquerade: Gerda leaves notes for herself in the Spring Witch's house to break the illusion.
* CoconutSuperpowers: The Snow Queen's palace is a frozen over variant of Wolfgang's Hotel - allowing them to use the same set with snow and ice on it.
* CompositeCharacter:
** The prince and princess are combined into the Summer Princess.
** The two crows become an aspiring magician called Chen.
* CoolOldLady: Minna is a substitute mother for Gerda, gives her romantic advice and tries to keep everyone's spirits up.
* CostumePorn: The Summer section has lots of finery from the princess and Gerda.
* DefiantCaptive: Kai may be a prisoner, but he's constantly trying to find a way out of the Snow Queen's palace.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Gerda actually. She's quite solemn when the miniseries starts, but Kai livens her up. [[spoiler: The Snow Queen herself is proved to be this]].
* DreamSpying: The Summer Princess gets this power. She has been dreaming of Gerda by the time the girl arrives at the palace.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Kai first wears his hair slightly messy and in his eyes. After he gets the mirror shard in there, his hair is worn pushed back.
* FairyTaleMotifs: In addition to the one it's based on, there's elements of ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' and ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The princess's palace becomes one of China.
* FieryRedhead: The Autumn Robber and her daughter both have auburn hair.
* FourGirlEnsemble: The seasonal women.
** The Spring Witch is something of the motherly one (she's easily the oldest and tries to be a surrogate mother for Gerda).
** The Autumn Robber is the tomboyish one, as she's an ActionGirl.
** The Snow Queen is the sexy vampy one.
** The Summer Princess is the ditzy one.
* FurAndLoathing: The Snow Queen shows up as the antagonist wearing fur.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Here the Snow Queen wants to take over the world.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: The Summer Princess - the most feminine character in the story - often wears purple. In modern Chinese culture, purple represents romance - which makes sense considering she wants to be married.
* GreenEyedMonster: The Snow Queen envies the life and love that the other seasons have.
* {{Keet}}: Chen the wannabe magician is cute, colourful and loud.
* LettingHerHairDown: Gerda's hair is shown completely down only as her romance with Kai blossoms.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: All the women in the story contrast in some way. Light Feminine - Gerda the sweet GirlNextDoor, Minna the perky cook and the Spring Witch who is CreepyCute. Dark Feminine - the vampy Snow Queen, cunning Summer Princess and aggressive Autumn Robber.
* AMinorKidroduction: The miniseries begins when Gerda is a young child.
* MissingMom: Gerda's died when she was a child. The Spring Witch tries to act as a substitute mother for her.
* NiceHat: All the seasonal women actually.
** The Snow Queen has a big fur hat she wears at the hotel.
** The Spring Witch has a hat decorated with flowers (which is true to the original book).
** The Summer Princess has a CoolCrown that she even wears while sleeping.
** The Autumn Robber has a pirate's hat.
* NoNameGiven: The Robber Girl's name isn't revealed. She even refers to herself as the Robber Girl.
* ThePowerOfLove: It's Gerda's love for Kai that prevents her from falling under the Spring Witch's illusion, getting distracted by the Summer Princess's suitors and staying captive of the Autumn Robber.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Kai and Gerda were childhood friends in the original story, and they could be just PlatonicLifePartners. Here it is most definitely a romance.
* QuirkyCurls: The Spring Witch has these, and she styles Gerda's hair like this when she's there.
* RaceLift: The princess becomes Asian, as her entire kingdom is now a FantasyCounterpartCulture of China.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The witch, the princess and the robber are all sisters to the Snow Queen here.
* SeasonalBaggage: This version plays up the seasonal aspect of the story. After the Snow Queen kidnaps Kai, Gerda has to travel through each of the other seasons before she can get to her.
* SomethingAboutARose: The rose motif is still present here. Although as opposed to growing roses across the roof from each other, Gerda's mother had a rose brooch that always kept everything warm.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Robber Girl (tomboy) and Gerda (girly girl).
* UnexplainedAccent: Minna has an Irish accent, when everyone else uses their own Canadian ones.
* TheVamp: The Snow Queen is portrayed as such.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never said where the story is set, as the entire cast is Canadian (though some new characters have Scandinavian names). Minna for example is Irish, which would make more sense if the story was set in Canada. So it's unconfirmed if it's a SettingUpdate or everyone is just NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.
* WinterRoyalLady: Three guesses who. Although here she is literally the Queen of Winter.
* WistfulAmnesia: Gerda when at the Spring Witch's house. Justified enough in that she nearly drowned before getting there, and so woke up being told it was her home.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Chen speaks this way, though still with a perfect Canadian accent.
A 2002 Hallmark miniseries adaptation of ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' by Hans Christian Anderson. It stars Bridget Fonda in the title role, and is directed by David Wu.
The overall plot is the same as the fairy tale - though the child protagonists are now young adults. Gerda (Chelsea Hobbs) is a lonely young woman whose father has been distant from her ever since her mother died years ago. All of that seems to change when a young man called Kai (Jeremy Guilbaut) arrives to work in her father's hotel. Naturally they fall in love...until the Snow Queen comes to claim him.
!!Tropes:
* AdaptedOut: The Lap and Finn women are not here.
* AdaptationExpansion: It's a three-hour miniseries so quite a lot.
** Gerda is given a backstory of a mother who died in the winter, presumably killed by the Snow Queen. Said mother is also implied to have been a rival to the Queen.
** The princess is holding an engagement ball, and tries to get Gerda to find someone else to fall in love with.
** The Queen is given a polar bear servant who is secretly in love with her.
** The new boots that Gerda offers to the river are the gift that Kai gave her right before he disappeared.
** There are more scenes of Gerda's family worrying where she is.
* AdaptationNameChange: Gerda's reindeer friend is named Bae in the tale, here he is Rutger.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: Each of the women Gerda meets becomes a representative of a season.
* AdaptationalBadass: The Queen becomes a lot more ruthless with her powers.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** The Snow Queen becomes the BigBad, with an evil plan of trying to turn the world into an endless winter. [[spoiler: And yet she's redeemed at the end]].
** The princess was completely SpoiledSweet in the original tale. Here she's more cunning and tries to get Gerda to stay with her.
* AgeLift: Kai and Gerda were children in the story (though they grow to adulthood over the course of their journey). Here they're both eighteen.
* ArcNumber: Four - Gerda now has to contend with representatives of the four seasons, Chen has auditioned four times, Kai and Gerda go on four dates.
* AsianAirhead: The Summer Princess is the Tipton variety.
* BearsAreBadNews: The Snow Queen has a polar bear as her [[TheDragon Dragon]]. [[spoiler: But it's ultimately he who brings about her HeelFaceTurn]].
* BoringReturnJourney: [[spoiler: Averted! Kai and Gerda are transported back home instantly after defeating the Snow Queen]].
* BrokenMasquerade: Gerda leaves notes for herself in the Spring Witch's house to break the illusion.
* CoconutSuperpowers: The Snow Queen's palace is a frozen over variant of Wolfgang's Hotel - allowing them to use the same set with snow and ice on it.
* CompositeCharacter:
** The prince and princess are combined into the Summer Princess.
** The two crows become an aspiring magician called Chen.
* CoolOldLady: Minna is a substitute mother for Gerda, gives her romantic advice and tries to keep everyone's spirits up.
* CostumePorn: The Summer section has lots of finery from the princess and Gerda.
* DefiantCaptive: Kai may be a prisoner, but he's constantly trying to find a way out of the Snow Queen's palace.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Gerda actually. She's quite solemn when the miniseries starts, but Kai livens her up. [[spoiler: The Snow Queen herself is proved to be this]].
* DreamSpying: The Summer Princess gets this power. She has been dreaming of Gerda by the time the girl arrives at the palace.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Kai first wears his hair slightly messy and in his eyes. After he gets the mirror shard in there, his hair is worn pushed back.
* FairyTaleMotifs: In addition to the one it's based on, there's elements of ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' and ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast''.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The princess's palace becomes one of China.
* FieryRedhead: The Autumn Robber and her daughter both have auburn hair.
* FourGirlEnsemble: The seasonal women.
** The Spring Witch is something of the motherly one (she's easily the oldest and tries to be a surrogate mother for Gerda).
** The Autumn Robber is the tomboyish one, as she's an ActionGirl.
** The Snow Queen is the sexy vampy one.
** The Summer Princess is the ditzy one.
* FurAndLoathing: The Snow Queen shows up as the antagonist wearing fur.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Here the Snow Queen wants to take over the world.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: The Summer Princess - the most feminine character in the story - often wears purple. In modern Chinese culture, purple represents romance - which makes sense considering she wants to be married.
* GreenEyedMonster: The Snow Queen envies the life and love that the other seasons have.
* {{Keet}}: Chen the wannabe magician is cute, colourful and loud.
* LettingHerHairDown: Gerda's hair is shown completely down only as her romance with Kai blossoms.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: All the women in the story contrast in some way. Light Feminine - Gerda the sweet GirlNextDoor, Minna the perky cook and the Spring Witch who is CreepyCute. Dark Feminine - the vampy Snow Queen, cunning Summer Princess and aggressive Autumn Robber.
* AMinorKidroduction: The miniseries begins when Gerda is a young child.
* MissingMom: Gerda's died when she was a child. The Spring Witch tries to act as a substitute mother for her.
* NiceHat: All the seasonal women actually.
** The Snow Queen has a big fur hat she wears at the hotel.
** The Spring Witch has a hat decorated with flowers (which is true to the original book).
** The Summer Princess has a CoolCrown that she even wears while sleeping.
** The Autumn Robber has a pirate's hat.
* NoNameGiven: The Robber Girl's name isn't revealed. She even refers to herself as the Robber Girl.
* ThePowerOfLove: It's Gerda's love for Kai that prevents her from falling under the Spring Witch's illusion, getting distracted by the Summer Princess's suitors and staying captive of the Autumn Robber.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Kai and Gerda were childhood friends in the original story, and they could be just PlatonicLifePartners. Here it is most definitely a romance.
* QuirkyCurls: The Spring Witch has these, and she styles Gerda's hair like this when she's there.
* RaceLift: The princess becomes Asian, as her entire kingdom is now a FantasyCounterpartCulture of China.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The witch, the princess and the robber are all sisters to the Snow Queen here.
* SeasonalBaggage: This version plays up the seasonal aspect of the story. After the Snow Queen kidnaps Kai, Gerda has to travel through each of the other seasons before she can get to her.
* SomethingAboutARose: The rose motif is still present here. Although as opposed to growing roses across the roof from each other, Gerda's mother had a rose brooch that always kept everything warm.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Robber Girl (tomboy) and Gerda (girly girl).
* UnexplainedAccent: Minna has an Irish accent, when everyone else uses their own Canadian ones.
* TheVamp: The Snow Queen is portrayed as such.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never said where the story is set, as the entire cast is Canadian (though some new characters have Scandinavian names). Minna for example is Irish, which would make more sense if the story was set in Canada. So it's unconfirmed if it's a SettingUpdate or everyone is just NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.
* WinterRoyalLady: Three guesses who. Although here she is literally the Queen of Winter.
* WistfulAmnesia: Gerda when at the Spring Witch's house. Justified enough in that she nearly drowned before getting there, and so woke up being told it was her home.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Chen speaks this way, though still with a perfect Canadian accent.
