TheChilliest

Which is addressed? I don't get the outrage. The story lit up why he was so neglective of her, let us understand his deep seated grief and self loathing, which he channeled into the one this he could easily use as a scape goat, seeing her at fault for everything.
But of course, that is an explanation and can be taken into consideration, but it isn't an excuse. It isn't treated as one, either. He didn't seem to think his apology would grant him some type of absolution and if there's any misunderstandings, Elsa made it clear to him as well.
It's not magically mending her broken childhood. But she's healing now, she doesn't need to hold onto a grudge like that, seeing as her father is still suffering in his own way, BECAUSE he knows he failed her and now even fell from grace now, and doesn't even do the work anymore that she used to love about him. I get it, he's a hateful hobo now. But seriously, the story treated this situation as organically and fittingly as possibly.

I agree the audience understood the why, nothing was forced. It was handled very well like you said. Just wrote out my thoughts after I read, as far as the outrage I think in general people have a low threshold for child abuse/neglect. Then I think in addition to the ongoing mistreatment of the child Elsa’s dad had with the woman he loved, yes he was overworked which wasn’t his fault. But I think what upset me was what he ignored or didn’t bother to look into, if he wasn’t going to parent or love her and marry, set the groundwork that this is your elder sister/daughter under no circumstances are you to mistreat her. Then if someone did, grounded, I’m surprised as a higher noble he didn’t have eyes everywhere to keep an eye on his wife and daughter knowing that may be up to no good. I mean the only one with any concern about how she acted was the child he neglected.

i don’t think he wanted to remarry to be honest. how much he loved his wife it seemed as though he would have liked being a widow but we know how cruel the emperor is. he purposely kept him away from his pregnant wife forcing him to neglect her & not even being there for even during her last moments. that emperor could have forced him to remarry. he is from a prestigious family. as for him neglecting his daughter, yeah he could have cherished her from that moment on but we know that his character tends to run away from his feelings. he bottles it up and doesn’t face it head on. it’s understandable, in his sense, to run away from facing his wife’s death & looking at the daughter who resembles his wife so much. the hard thing about grief is that a lot of people tend to fully understand how deep it can affect people. a lot of people don’t try to understand how grief affects and individual even in a way that we may not like. we have to understand that he was grieving and that he was grieving in such an unhealthy way that it unfortunately caused misfortunes for someone else & he acknowledged that. hopefully, he can grieve in a healthier way & maybe sometime down the road him & his daughter can have a healthy relationship. she may not forgive him now but they don’t mean it’ll last forever.