Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29195016-20160724040235/@comment-26159109-20161011211845

Eskaver wrote: Farerb wrote:

Eskaver wrote:

Farerb wrote: The sad thing is that the other sister appeared briefly with no dialog, they could have used Anastasia without really showing her and just talk about her as if she's off screen. It's clear that they didn't want it to be so. If they really wanted, they could. It's sad that a popular theory wasn't true, but that's how the cookie crumbles.

It's not that it wasn't true, they changed it. And your proof? The way they set it up happens to be the way they set up a lot of things, it could be one way or the other, but they leave it vague (or not specified) so that they can plan what to do with it later.

As far as I know, both stepsisters left for the ball were brunette. The ball was around a year or so before the curse. On the Wonderland side, we had the blonde Anastasia, who left a little less than a decade ago (afawk), have an ambitious mother who was angry at being bested by a step sister who  "got the prince".

They could have done a twist, but there were conflicts with the theory before this episode arose. So, there's no proof that they changed anything.

The clues were there and they were unsubtle and unambiguous. Brunettes? If we nitpick on changing the extras from 1.04, then we also saw fat stepsisters, so how come they gained and lost weight in such a short time? What's the explanation of Gaston's different appearence? or that Alexandra changed her gender? twice? Let's not act that the audience got it wrong please. I get that they couldn't get the actress, but they could have said "We planned to have Anastasia be Cinderella's stepsister, unfortunately, Emma Rigby wasn't available so we had to change it" instead of acting as if the viewers (a lot of viewers) just made up something. In adfition, Eddy Kitsis said that once the audience figure things out, they change their plans.