Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29195016-20160724204832/@comment-1894786-20161214000343

Hmcooper4 wrote: Elsa (and the frozen gang in general) and Merida were not bad (I liked the casting), but they detracted from the rest of the story without brining anything new.

That's just my opinion. Well, that's because they weren't used correctly IMO they tried so hard to create a natural progression from the Disney story, that they didn't properly intergrate them into Once's story. Hell, Merida's entire story was relegated to two self-contained episodes instead of being sprinkled throughout the season (like Frozen). And both suffered from not having their stories link more with the main cast (in the past, 'cause obviously the present had them there).

There's three ways to go with Moana if they chose to do her:

Intergrate her and tweak her story like Aurora, Ariel, Cinderella, Snow, etc.

Bring her straight from the movie like Anna, Elsa and Merida and continue that story (which of course is the disservice that Frozen and Brave got)

Or bring her straight from the movie, but push her into a completely new plot. (Hell, they could bring back Joanna and Merrin and do an ocean-related arc. Maybe throw in Nemo and introduce Kida and Milo from Atlantis)

The point is, if we had a better team of writers, they could easily introduce her and do her story justice. This is the team that has never addressed so. Many. Things. Regina's torture at the hands of Owen, Rumple's obvious PTSD from like... LIFE, and most notoriously, the Mills' women's nasty habit of raping men (Hunstman and Robin... And to a lesser extent, I'd even assume Cora with Henry. We don't know for sure, but I'm guessing.)