Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26235531-20150327013221/@comment-24757127-20150512034930

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Cjtrules15 wrote: The Pocahontas movie had bad things about it the misrepresented Native Americans just like Disney's Peter Pan did too. Are you all shocked that there were no Native Americans or even mentioning of them in Neverland? It's a senestive topic because it's a dark part of American history. I don't think any interpretation of Pocahontas would make the Native American community completely happy and not have controversy.

The reason why I'm so POed about Will is that he's billed as a main cast member not a guest star or minor character. All the main cast members have big roles throughout the series. They dug themselves in a hole adding a main cast member a couple seasons in beause he doesn't have the time to develop his character like we had with the others. Will is NOT supposed to have minor appearances if he is main cast. Seriously I think all his appearances add up to no less than 15 minutes. Huge mistake bringing him in at this point. To be fair, we got more than enough development in Wonderland. Not every fan's going to go back and watch it solely for Will, of course. But, still, the development is there. Let's just hope going into this next season he's actually useful.

And I definitely think Tiger Lilly's tribe in Peter Pan is definitely way more offensive than Pocahontas. For sure. We do, but not of Will. It shouldn't be a requirement to watch OUATiW to understand Will, but right now it kind of is. We've seen Wonderland from Jefferson, Cora, Robin Hood and others but none of them were main cast members which should have significant screen time and have episodes focused on them.

Ya, Peter Pan's Native Americans were a lot more offensive than Pocahontas but the movie was also extremely playful. Just for clarification I'm talking about Disney's Peter Pan from 1953. In that movie we find out the "hunting" of Indians and Lost Boys is a game and no one gets hurt. In the 2004 version of Peter Pan Hook says he's tired of hunting Lost Boys and Native Americans which is why he lured Peter to Neverland again. This one we can fully assume he means hunting and killing.