Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5154975-20140830155800/@comment-26159109-20150513192816

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Farerb wrote: Raelizflo wrote: Bgwinstonfc30 wrote: I think the reason that a lot of fans are insistent with the Once =/= Disney thing, including myself, is that it makes the show feel restricted. There are a lot of Disney movies to choose from for the show, but there are plenty more fairytales and literature of all sorts that could be chosen instead. I understand that. But when they say this, it SEEMS they are dismissing the fact that Once's job is to purposefully cater to Disney fans, and making an educated (?) conclusion that it is not catering to Disney fans. I am welcome to them using non-Disney movie sources for storyline, or changes to disney movie sources... but the end result will always be to cater to Disney fans, IMO. The only reason you think that is because of Frozen and Cruella De vill. Before season 4, the most Disney thing they did was Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid, and even that was minimal. I really liked the Frozen story they did, but I hate what it has done to the show. No, the most Disney thing they ever did was start with Snow White (like Disney did), keep the Disney names for all seven dwarves and oh yeah, basically recreate Disney's Snow's dying pose in An Apple Red As Blood not only for Snow but Henry, too. This show has always been Disney with a twist. If some fans haven't realized that yet, that's really too bad.

Oz was so far the only arc to not really be Disney inspired, but everything else very much has. That's not what I meant. We never saw Ginnifer Goodwin with a yellow skirt and blue blouse and Regina did not resemble the Evil Queen. Does anybody remember what Maleficent wore in the first season? as far as I know Rumpelstilstskin, Hensel & Gretel and Red Riding Hood are not Known Disney full length feature films, and you did not need to see any Disney film to understand what's going on in the show (unlike Frozen). again there were little Disney nods here and there like the dying pose you mention and it was nice. The show wasn't Disney centered, it was fairytale centered, and Disney is mostly affiliated with fairytales, but fairytales does not automatically mean Disney.