the best thing the School for Good and Evil movie did was open wit Kit Young fighting himself while wearing the most flamboyant jackets and wearing a heavy amount of eyeshadow.
There were legends about a sleeping beauty on the top of an enchanted mountain, where predatory flowers and animals are placed around the castle, and a dragon lurks in the tower itself, guarding its princess. Many dared to save the girl, whose beauty was described as unearthly, but no one ever came back. Neither warriors, nor troops, nor knights of orders, nor princes or kings, the dragon does not spare anyone.
There, on the highest tower, around gardens and alleys, a sorceress slept on silk sheets, and only a kiss of true love could wake her up.
And described by the dragon, the Fairy Godmother who disappeared without a trace centuries earlier, heartbroken and guilty, hides from the world and hides her love, for whose soul hundreds of people came.
[English is not my native language, there may be mistakes]
A story in which Rafal, in a fit of jealousy, casts a sleepy spell on Dovey, but Lesso takes the brunt of it. Dovey does not know that Lesso loves her back and does not dare to kiss her. She protects her from dangers for several centuries, until Sophie and Agatha get to the tower.
there’s a lot of emphasis on eye color in sge. I may be the only one to have noticed it but since I finished the prequels it’s been something I think about a lot
Rhian’s eyes are blue and Rafal’s eyes are green. In the main series, green typically represents Evil (in book 3, there was a lot of emphasis on green lighting in the castles), and Sophie’s emerald eyes are a key characteristic of hers. Tedros’s eyes are blue, representing Good (the boy’s towers in the Good castle are blue).
Green means Evil and blue means Good. But there are moments where Rafal and Sophie do something Good or something in the name of Good, even if some people consider it Evil (using black magic to save their closest friends, taking the Storian to the heart for someone they love). There are times where Rhian and Tedros did something Evil, or something they thought was Good but wasn’t (declaring war on Evil, hating others, stealing power [mostly concerning the Storian]).
brown I feel represents somewhere in the middle, like they’ve meddled in both sides. Agatha knows tons of dark/Never spells because of her time helping Sophie with her studies in their first year, and Fala (Rafal in disguise) used the Circus of Talents to expose his brother’s plot to cheat. He even declared himself “Fala of Good” as his nationality. They have each been both the victim and the aggressor, usually in the name of love for someone they care about.
in general there’s TONS of emphasis on appearance in this series, especially eye colors. Being ugly is an Evil trait and being beautiful is a Good trait, but throughout the whole series — including the prequels — the characters have flipped things around, and it’s awesome, it’s one of the several things I seriously love about this series
so basically since lesso has been made a reader now instead of presumably evil aristocracy/royalty (going off the "the snow queen is her mum" theory here) then unless she just added lady onto her name to sound more authoritative I think she was blackmailed/forced into marrying rafal (which presumably would give her the title of lady) and that explains why she was so hung up on him throughout the movie and I'm also guessing he's threatening/blackmailing her with eviction or being fired in order to force her to make sure evil starts winning again hence why she was so paranoid about evil losing all the time and angry at Dovey in the library scene and also why she completely ignored everything that was going on with Sophie even though she almost certainly knew it was wrong but due to her being in love with Dovey and wanting to stay with her at the school and protect her she couldn't do anything about it because of rafal.
that's the only reason I could think of as to why they did her character arc like that instead of just sticking to the one in the books. also please bare in mind this is just a theory lmao