Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8883075-20140324040828/@comment-8345449-20140325010551

Arctucrus wrote: Toma Cre wrote: Arctucrus wrote: ^I think that if you consider Rapunzel's story to have happened in the past year as we saw last night that it did, we can safely assume that the show is disregarding the whole, "oh the fairy tales are already known to us so they must have already happened" thing, which, I for one, am thankful for. Leaves room for more space and variety for them to work with, and I honestly don't care if fairy tales showed up in our world before they "happened".

And that gives way for SB characters to double as classic Oz characters so, yeah. Well, Rapunzel said she was trapped in the tower for many, many years. So she could have been trapped before the first curse, and then frozen for 28 years, before Charming freed her. So that means her story did already happen and could have reached LWM before Storybrooke came into being. Wrong again.

In that case, half Rapunzel's story happened before, and the other half-the more important half, with Charming, the fear, etc. happened recently.

Isn't that the same with many of the EF characters? Their stories haven't ended yet (so they are only half a story) and the happy endings in the traditional stories are made up e.g. Belle did not live happily ever after with the Beast (she was trapped in a cell). The point is that the fairytale character already existed before Storybrooke, so there can be a story about that character (no matter how twisted and modified and with made-up endings) handed down in traditional fairy tales, folklore etc. This is the pattern we see so far.

The Tinman, Cowardly Lion and Scarecrow only actually being real after their stories were told would break that pattern.