Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20140915180352/@comment-1894786-20140922171431

Hmcooper4 wrote: Let's keep in mind that, while A & E like to give their nods to Disney, they also like to go back to the source material, and make the twist from there. And from what I understand of the Grimm version of Cinderella, Ella was anything but a nice gal, and she (and her birds) get revenge on the step-sisters once Ella had nabbed her prince. (Which is very different from Disney, Rogers & Hammerstein, or just about every other modern retelling of that particular fairy tale).

So while they may give an even larger nod to the Disney version with the step-sisters names (just like they did with Snow White using the dwarf names from the Disney movie), I am not going to hold my breath that Cinderella turns out anything like the Cinderella story from Disney, at least as far as the relationship with the step sisters is concerned. Yeah, she has her birds blind them by pecking their eyes out. The original Ella was a gold digging Emily Thorne type of character. And considering OUAT's Ella was cutthroat enough to get in bed with Rumple, I'm sure she's not exactly... as snow white (LOL) as Disney made her seem.