Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25613119-20150302124228/@comment-24674051-20150313164448

TrumpetofTheSwan wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: However, Having Blond Emma as Maleficent's daughter, and having the darker haired Lily as Snow's daughter just seems to make for sense. From my family, I'd say that it would make sense for Snow's daughter not to have as dark of hair as her if the father is Charming. My mother has very dark black/brown hair, and my dad has dark blond hair. I, and two out of my three siblings have dark blond(e)/light brown hair. One has medium brown, but not as dark as my mom's. This pattern continues in my maternal extended family. Everyone on that side had black/brown hair, from aunts and uncles, to grandparents, to great grandparents. Then my mom and all her siblings married dark blond(e)/light brown haired people. This resulted in a ratio of about 5:4:2 for dark blonde/light brown, medium brown, and lighter blonde hair. No black/ brown. So, the gene that codes for the pigment that makes hair dark- black eumelanin- must be very recessive. I think the genes for hair color are additive.

I will take your word on that, since I don't have a background in genetics. :)

However, based on your argument, if the Dark/Black hair gene is recessive, that would make Lily being Maleficent's Daughter even more remote, since both Parent's are blonde/light brown. I'm not saying it couldn't happen, just the odds are much reduced. (again, I don't have a background in genetics, just whatever I remember from General Science from 40 years ago).

As to hoping that Emma is or is not Maleficent's daughter, however it turns out, I don't see that as necessarily jumping the shark, any more than the whole "Emma is going to the Dark Side". I will wait and see how the writers set this one up.