Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20160722094328/@comment-4453062-20160812171753

Hmcooper4 wrote: Agreed, interesting. and I would place a good wager that the show execs are avoiding making any official, or even unofficial, announcement about whether Sarah-Jane is actually portraying Ella's step-mom, because confirmation of that casting would make the relationship between Ella and Ana almost 100% confirmed at that point. (Still need to see what the twists are, since it is still questionable to have Ana be one of the 2 stepsisters that we glimped in "The Price of Gold"). If it's about Anastasia not looking like one of the two stepsisters in "The Price of Gold", then that can easily be excused as a recast just like with Gaston and Jafar. When they showed the two stepsisters back then, it was only for like 5 seconds, and we didn't get that good of a look at them. They never even had any dialogue. They were just two random extras, because at the time neither of the stepsisters played a vital role in the episode. I doubt they even planned Anastasia/the Red Queen as a major character until sometime after the fact. Now if you're implying that there are possible timeline issues, then that's a whole other can of worms.