Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-24863788-20150712021406/@comment-24674051-20150714172343

Unfortunately, Some of Camelot is Disneyfied. Or have you forgotten "The Sword in the Stone".

The thing is, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, the Hunchback, The Snow Queen, Red Riding Hood, etc., are not Disney exclusive. Many of these are classic works that are in the Public Domain. Yes, Walt Disney and Company used these to create their own spin on the story, and some of the spin that they put on them (such as the Dwarf Names) are pure Disney. And many of these tales are now so well known in the Disney format that they have become associated with Disney. And let's face it, Mickey Mouse is wonderful, but Disney would not be what it is today without the foundation of the fairy tales it used over the years.

Of all the tales mashed into Once, the only one that I don't think has been Disneyfied as either a feature movie or an animated short is Rumplestiltskin.

As for the reason Once uses the tales that it does. Frozen aside, all of the tales, even Rumplestiltskin, are well known to the audience. Before Once, I knew all of these tales, and even knew many of them in their original form. The point is the tales are familiar. We, as an audience, need very little in order for use to identify and recognize characters, which helps to bring viewers into the show. The twists that A&E put on the tales is what KEEPS viewers engaged (well, and maybe some of the Ships)

Ok, enough off topic rambling, back to the subject at hand. a New Princess? Aside from the one that I previously mentioned, the one that is more than likely to be included at some point, and could be integrated during season 5, would be Tiana.