Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.49.79.202-20130521081944

I was reading the OUAT wiki page for Season 3 and I noticed all the potential storyline stuff, specifically all the potential new characters.

I'm curious what people think of everything that's mentioned, and, to make it easier, let me list it here:

Potential new characters include: Tinkerbell, Peter Pan (definite), Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Tom Sawyer, Achilles, Captain Ahab, Aladdin, Jafar, and characters from Oz.

Personally I'm fine with Tinkerbell, Peter Pan, Ariel, and characters from Oz...but..

Aladdin and Jafar I think could work with some effort, but I'm not as keen on them as I am on PP, Ariel, TB, and characters from Oz.

As far as Mary Poppins, Tom Sawyer, Achilles, and Captain Ahab go though...they just wouldn't fit. At all. And I feel like they'd ruin the show, honestly...Mary Poppins and Achilles even moreso than Tom and Ahab. Mary Poppins, for one, while classic only really has one version of her story...and it doesn't change much, and it's very different from the feel of OUAT stuff. Achilles from Greek Mythology...also feels very different. I know they had Midas but they did it in such a way where he was a minor character and they made it work. Achilles though..I just don't see that happening. And Tom Sawyer and Captain Ahab...sure they're classics but they don't fit here. They're not fairy tales and like Mary Poppins there's only really one adaptation of each character. AND they don't fit the feel of OUAT, happy endings, magic, etc. It just doesn't work.

I'd sooner want Blackbeard on the show as opposed to those four... 