Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25491743-20190113164639/@comment-1998684-20190115044520

I've only gotten into the show in the last year of it's life as I do with many things I don't know from the beginning nowadays. Basically I was aware of the show and was interested but decided it was too far along so I waited until it was over and eventually got Seasons 1-6 on Blu-Ray for Christmas 2017. Going through a binge is tough for me even if you take out times when you aren't watching I don't know how people do this. But I got through it and got Season 7 for Christmas 2018 and am still watching it. I got other things to watch which I did beforehand.

I'm not going to pretend like I know the show better then most because I don't. Really I kind of need to watch it again now complete to get a full grasp on things but I liked it for all the ups and downs and I will go back to it I'm sure in the future. If I thought about it more perhaps I could talk about the nuances and ups and downs and when stuff made sense and didn't but I still don't feel like I'm the right person to talk to about that. I don't think I am with most things I just try to enjoy myself at the end of the day.

So when it comes to missed opportunities I really don't know what I would have done? It's not my show ultimately they did what they did and for better or worse they told the story they wanted to tell.

But I guess if there were things they could have done it's more expanding on things but again that could create more complicated stories to an already complicated world.

Stuff like expanding on Oz, Camelot and the Underworld could have been cool. Some people I know want an Oz show that continues the stories of Dorothy, Mulan and Ruby which would be interesting to see what happened to them.

There's also character back stories but hard to know how many of them are needed and aren't? The Wish Realm isn't exactly the same as the normal world but would the main Hook also have a mother named Alice? If so she probably died too at a young age but what if she didn't? What if she came back somehow?

They could have done more with Pirate character legacy. Davy Jones probably wasn't going to appear if he was based on the Pirates of the Caribbean version simply due to budget but would have been interesting if they adapted him in someway. Or draw from female Pirates. They didn't do much with Treasure Island other than Silver. Though I probably would have just adapted it as Treasure Planet and have Captain Amelia in there.

There's also the Black Fairy's backstory with Malcolm. How they did meet? How did they fall in love? Did Pan ever stop to think his wife was alive and if so did he still love her enough to search for her? Obviously Rumple found out who his mother was which maybe I forgot but was it ever explained how he knew who she was and where to look?

Also characters and worlds you could have explored like the Land Without Colour. Have Dracula and Van Helsing and Mina Harker and the rest of the lore come over from Victorian England. The Mummy and so on. I know Sherlock Holmes was someone they couldn't get early on but they could have tried again?

Also I'd be curious to see them adapt the Lion King or Jungle Book. Would they be animals throughout or would they be cursed to be human?

Also the Land With Untold Stories had interesting potential. Did anyone ever go back? How many of them have had their stories finished? What about Atlantis? Combine it with mythology and the Disney movie.

And while we find out Lilly's father's identity eventually if they got the rights the journey to find him would have been interesting to see. Maybe expand Maleficent's history.

There somethings they wouldn't have adapted though like Lord of the Rings or Narnia because of rights issues and also people probably wouldn't maybe accept a different interpretation of these stories. Narnia could have been possible had Disney kept the rights but again some people would then have hope they'd spring to channel the films by casting Tilda Swinton and Liam Neeson who even if they just got the latter I think would have satisfied people.

It's also why comics were just put as pure fiction even though they could have counted in a different way with their Author's Pen being maybe an artist's drawing pen? If they could have shown Marvel Stan Lee would have been an Author for sure but because of the MCU there's no way that would happen. That's probably why even though it was alluded too Asgard wasn't done because maybe they thought audiences would expect Marvel Thor and Loki but I think they still could have done Asgard in someway.

There's also stuff that wasn't their fault it was because of scheduling conflicts and some of the actors have moved onto bigger careers. Like if he wasn't in the MCU I'd be curious to see if Jefferson and Grace ever managed to leave and maybe went back to Wonderland? Well the original one anyway.

Same thing with Graham because of Jamie Dornan I think he could have somehow been in the Underworld in Season 5. Have him, Emma and Regina share a scene and a goodbye and have Regina reveal to Emma the truth about his death. I don't know what exactly his unfinished business would be?

Also the whole villains returning through the Underworld thing was a fun trip down memory lane but they all were scattered and had their own agendas when they should have formed a bigger alliance rather than a few small ones. While it would have probably been tough to shoot to get so many actors in one place I think it would have been cool to see the villains put the heroes on trial in the courthouse feeling they cost them their lives and happy endings as they have to try to defend themselves. Sort of like the Trial episode of Batman TAS. The Judge could be either Frollo or Jude Doom.

Really it's just an endless asking of what if this happened? With no real answers. But that's what I saw here and I decided to randomly share.