Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20160123215734/@comment-25926288-20160125161845

And then more Hades advocate stuff:  Most of the characters of Once belong to Once and not to the source material, so if Red Riding Hood was a Native American male (lol) then they could easily do it.

Story and plot are important, but the show is a business product too. That's why Book to TV adaptations are never exact. Anyone can be all "The story is all that matters" but the story isn't all that matters in showbiz. Connections are things that also matter. If the show was all about all white, straight, rich snobs and none else, then I'm sure that even if the story is great, it won't be as good as it could be if they diversified the characters.

And back to your point that fairytales have variations, so then you've no problem with more diversity, right? After all, Once is about happy endings for all that work for it and not just a select few. That's sort of the whole point they stressed the modern retelling that they made the premise of the show.

So, who cares about diversity when the story is more important? Well, the writers seem to think so and the story isn't some hidden gem waiting to be discovered. Diverse characters lead to diverse interpretation and reaching a diverse cast. Have a gay storyline and then it reaches out to the LGBT community and can potentially bring in viewers. Have a woman hero and that brings in the the young, impressional girls and even develops good perspective form guys as well. That's why most of writers and us aren't TV people because you can't make a story be only what you want and expect people to read it. You reach out and grab a variety iof people and how do you do that? Diversity.

Let's take the Camelot arc for example. If everyone was white and straight, it wouldn't be bad at all as it doesn't effect the story, but having a young POC Merlin ironically adds a little color and novelty to the story versus having a standard old white man with a long beard. Having Lancelot shows an equal opportnity in the EF region. Camelot vilaige was shown to be diverse and multicultural which adds to the greater world feeling which helps with building a world that you would want to visit.