Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20150428200304/@comment-25926288-20150429121937

This is an even more touchy topic, which I don't know if everyone will understand.

First, I will say that the ethnicity and race shown of the character is completely true unless told to us by the writers otherwise.

POC (specifically black people) have really received the short end of the stick. Ursula leaves early. Rapunzel's really a non-entity. The fate of a black character is staying irrelevant (some sort of slave vibe from Sidney), getting the shaft (Ursula, Rapunzel), dying by the hands of a particular race (especially black women), or being a white woman in disguise (Cora = Lancelot, Zelena = Marian).

First major black character dies within thirty seconds.

Not screaming racism, but why? This bothers me and some others across the web on Once's treatment of minorities. Poor Mulan, maybe she has a chance.

I would use Lily's change of ethnicity, but I think it's more due to poor planning and casting than "whitewashing".

As with the morality issue, I'm not saying their is some hidden agenda to pollute the minds of viewers, but still major.

I mean when you have people rooting for Marian's death just so OQ happens, that's just wrong and then they selved her for most of an arc. For a show about hope, where was Marian's hope? First, she gets the shaft in a horrible plot in which Regina cares more about saving Marian than her lusty former husband does. Then, we are to believe (which many people disliked) that Zelena was actually Marian with little to know clue ahead of time and then what? So, Marian would have died by Regina, but now she dies by Zelena. How does that make anything better? Oh, it makes it so that Regina can't be blamed for murdering Robin's wife and that OQ has no problems at all. They seem to write the plot around ships, lol.

Regina will never bring up how she killed Marian before Emma travelled back in time to save her or how she planned to kill her. Now, she simply wants to replace Marian and have Roland, forget Henry and be in twu luv with Robin. I know Regina is irational at times, but this is a new level of low. Our heroes!