Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26184894-20150713122948/@comment-26184894-20150713141512

Eskaver wrote: There is probably no connection. Gods can appear in a multitude of ways so there's that. I think that Poseidon may be a deity or long lived powerful person (which seem to be a plenty in the EF).

If he were AA, then I have no problem with that. If he were white, I would have no problem with that.

Characters aren't any particular race, but to say there are enough AA characters is foolish, because a character isn't defined by their race. Example, Rapunzel is typically Caucasian, but was AA in Once. SO, you can't attribute races of Disney characters to mean anything on Once. Once doesn't use African myths so pipe down. There may be many, but not one will show up.

It wouldn't be to please fans simply look at the nearly racist backlash when they made Rapunzel black and even Ursula black (like purple people are real!). "Oh boy, Marian's black. Why isn't she a fox? Oh, boy I'm angerz." Fans make me lose hope in humanity.

There can never be too much diversity as long as it is in the realm of being realistic.

That's like saying there are enough Asian characters because we have Mulan and the rest of those random Asian extras and tons of Asian myths (which won't be used).

As I conclude my argument, characters aren't a particular race...except Snow since we know she has skin white as snow, lol. Everything else is open to possibility. Maybe it's my outlook on the show that changes my opinion. I look at once upon a time as basically a fan fiction that made it to t.v.. so when I see these characters that are being used, I kinda expect them to be portrayed and look like the character they have been portrayed and looked like for decades or even centuries. For example Peter pan. Pan having magic, being evil, and being a man that looked to be in his late thirties or early forties that was magically changed to a teenager was nice a twist but Peter pan still looked like Peter pan.

Not to say I have a problem with them making changes like jack, I thought that were cool twist. But when I saw rupunzel, I couldn't help but wonder why. The same for Ursula(I get your point about her being purple but i think people,like myself, assume she's white.Same with the lions from lion king. I always assumed they were African because of accents, names, and the plays always show them as African or African-American but they're lions. Plus Ursula was white when she turned human) I wondered why? Honestly, I feel like they do it to please the fans that want diversity or someone above them at abc that wants more diversity. Again that may just be how I look at things. I just don't see why they would change race because it serves no purpose. With Jack the change was at least reasonable because it helped move the plot.

When I say they're enough fairy tales and myths I don't mean on the show because honestly I can't even think of a African-American character that's we will ever see again outside of a flashback. I mean they're enough fairy tales and myths in real life that can be made into characters on the show. I just don't get why they're changing characters race seemingly to ME for diversity.

I don't mind diversity, had they made Greg and his father African-American or any other race never would've gave it a second thought. Had Neal been mixed never would've gave it a second thought. Had they introduced the shadow man never would've gave it a second thought. I just don't see the point in changing race because it serves no point.