Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5899967-20150730164949/@comment-4975807-20150730173832

I liked the reinvention of Snow White as a character. I grew up only knowing the Disney adaptation of this character, plus a few modern fiction retellings of her, which still portrayed her as as a princess-like figure in Europe, so my impression of Snow White before having seen the portrayal of her on Once was: "Oh, Snow White. She's a dainty princess with pale skin who always has the misfortune of having a stepmother who hates her." Once gave the character more depth as survivor, and now looking back, I kinda cringe at the Disney version of Snow White who likes singing by the well and has her forest friends help her after she is forced to run away from home. The addition of Snow White as somewhat of a spoiled child (during flashbacks), and her selfish and questionable choices as an adult (killing Cora, sacrificing baby Lily) was a welcome surprise as well because it shows her flaws, while with other adaptations of Snow White, she has always come across to me as a somewhat innocent and do-no-wrong character. I enjoy that certain elements of Disney Snow White have been retained for Once Snow White, such as her affinity with blue birds and eating the poisoned apple, without those elements being carried over too much into Once Snow White and risk her character being somewhat of a carbon copy of Disney Snow White.