Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34924658-20180114003859/@comment-1916997-20180114040112

Tysonjackson wrote: My point isn’t that they shouldn’t do new versions of minor characters, it’s that they shouldn’t only do that. The concept was “there are multiple storybooks out there” and Snow White was mentioned by name when talking about that. I’m not saying I think they should replace the old characters or lessen them. I would love to see a new Evil queen (one that was just jealous of Snow White) facing off against Regina. Same way i’d Love to see Ashley and Jacinda team up against Drizella and Clorinda (or Tisbe) or Lisa Banes and Rapunzel. Also, about the whole Disney thing, yes I would definitely like to see a more faithful adaptation. The argument from most people is that this isn’t Disney, it’s Once Upon a Time, but it most definitely is Disney. There was no Belle, Ursula, Maleficent, Lady Tremaine, Anastasia, Drizella in the fairytales, there was the beauty, the sea witch, the wicked fairy, wicked stepmother, and the evil stepsisters. The Wicked Witch wasn’t green in the novel, she was an old crone with an eye patch (although this isn’t Disney it’s just the movie). I think the problem with doing a new Snow White or Evil Queen or whatever is that they have already been overdone. Also, any new version we see of someone like Snow or EQ would not be able to be very fleshed out, so they would just feel like a poor redo of the already established characters. What furthur complicates things is the fact that the old characters are still around. While it might be "cool" to see both Ella's team up, it would also be very confusing (to the characters and also to a large portion of the audience).