Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20140908192157/@comment-9445918-20141009130503

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WinterWoodsGal wrote:

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DarlingDavies wrote: JCAdlawan wrote: DarlingDavies wrote: Just to play devil's advocate...(You'll have to have seen the links everyone is posting for the spoiler 7+ minute sneak peak of the premiere episode to understand this - it's on YouTube)  - did we see the Royal Woman on the ship actually give birth to Anna and Elsa? It's a fun theory that EM might be mother to one/both the Arendelle princesses. Of course, it could just be us speculating, digging for anything b/c we're so eager to get this season underway. And yes, Anna and Elsa's mom, the queen of Arendelle very well could be their mom. Just like in the Frozen movie. I'm just saying, the speculation is valid. I think we're going to learn a lot in this episode. The speculation isn't valid Agree to disagree, in this case. B/c I feel the speculation is valid. Until we're "shown", we can speculate like cray. Thus, the beauty of shows like this. Anna and Elsa's mom look a lot more like Elsa, And It is confirmed that they will stay true to their characters from the movie, How can that speculation be VALID? So? I don't look anything like my mother, in fact, I look more like my stepdad than my mother. Does that mean that she's not my mother? Hair colour does not validate parentage. Hundreds of people look alike. In fact, there are seven others in the world that look exactly like you. Why do you have to contradict what the directors of Frozen made? You're contradicting it because you think that Elsa's real mother is the Snow Queen not the Queen...... Directors Jen Lee and Chris Buck told the OUaT directors Adam and Eddy to make the characters true from the movie so that means the Queen of Arendelle IS Elsa's real mother. When did Jen and Chris say that? Link please otherwise, as said above, your speculation is not valid. And please DONT accuse me of saying things I have not said. I like Frozen, but they don't have to include every single detail into OUAT. And they didn't include Olaf, so are you going to go on a Marshmallow Rampage about that? I was wrong. It was not Jen and Chris it was Kitsis.

Kitsis: There are times we take liberties as we’ve done with Peter Pan and other characters, but  Frozen we really feel like they are so well-defined and we were so inspired by what we saw up on the screen last November, that we don't want to change those characters. It’s much more about Anna — what we love about her is that she’s fearless and she never gives up on the people she loves. She has no problem going off into the middle of the storm to find her sister. What happens when a true believer like that gets in front of the devil himself, Rumplestiltskin, who sees the worst in everyone? What happens with these two kinds of characters? In fact, what happens when Elsa, who is somebody who wanted to run away, meets another character who  loves to run away, Emma? It was really about keeping the characters exactly who they were in the movie but seeing how they would interact with other characters on  Once Upon a Time and telling a new story.

Also Horowitz

Horowitz: The way to think about it is, divorce yourself from time and space as you know it and think of the world of story occurring in a timeless place. What we’re not saying is that the events of the movie took place in November of 2013. What we’re saying is the movie came out and told the story that occurred in the land of our fairy-tale world. As far as the timeline goes, when we see Elsa arrive at the end of season three, that is an Elsa who is post the events of  Frozen. Going forward, the Elsa that we are seeing in Storybrooke is someone who experienced everything you saw in that movie and is hopefully that character who is now facing a new challenge and involved in a new mystery that we intend to explain in the first episode.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/once-a-time-season-4-733220