Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4196008-20140324013345/@comment-5895297-20140324223232

I don't understand why you're so persistent about it being a retelling of Snow White. I always saw it as the story of Emma. For me Emma is the central character. And I can totally understand Alexalaz, because the characters that were introduced this season didn't get as much backstory as others. They talked about Ariel for so long and when she's finally here the overall importance of her character is kind of disappointing. You know Ariel is my favourite Disney character of all time and I was satsfied with the changes to her story they did on the show, because I understood that it would be difficult to show her underwater life and so on.. but still, there could've been so much more I think. I'm glad she comes back again for the Hook centric episode. But characters in the earlier seasons got a lot more backstory. Almost everything played into the overall storyline and had a good reason. The way they told the Rapunzel story seemed like they didn't do it because of Rapunzel. They came up with that storyline of David being afraid and then found a way to connect it to Rapunzel. A way that changed everything almost completely. It didn't resemble Tangled and not even the original tale.