Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28162607-20180101191335/@comment-35315896-20180526095109

DracoWombat wrote: Good Wizard of the North-West wrote: Winged Pig wrote: Good Wizard of the North-West wrote:

06. Lady Tremaine 2.0: despite the fact that her touching moment with Ivy during her last scene, I will never forgive her for Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Booing the Fairy Godmother into oblivion. Shame on you! ...And they never mentioned it again. It would have been amazing if, when Ivy said "Where's a Fairy Godmother when you need one?" to Victoria in 711, she had also said "Oh yeah, you killed her. Seems like Gothel forgot to add that in your list of crimes". Hahaha that would have been perfect. One of my few gripes about Season 7 was the fact that they did a Cinderella story with no Fairy Godmother. They had already killed the first one but could have included the 2.0 version as a Blue Fairy/Mother Superior role or just a mentor for Jacinda/Cinderella. They even introduced Tiger Lily but forgot about her. Why do the OUAT writers, who I think are usually amazing in the way they craft storylines, hate fairy godmothers? Fairy godmothers are considered one of the cheapest storytelling tools nowadays. So if you can't make her evil writers tend to ignore them. You make a good point however I am sure there are other ways for writers to incorporate good magic using allies like fairy godmothers as recurring roles (like Once originally did with the Blue Fairy). Also, fairy godmothers are not all powerful beings and I believe that their magic has its limits too. By incorporating limits like the Midnight rule or the fact that, like Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, fairy godmothers cannot plant their charges at their happy endings but guide them (hence why in the Disney film Cinderella's Fairy Godmother only appeared when hope was nearly lost). I think that if Genies can have limits, then so can fairy godmothers.

Cinderella's Fairy Godmother in S7 did not have to be killed. Her death had no impact whatsoever on the plot and was a waste of a really important Cinderella character. Lady Tremaine only used the wand a handful of times, but it was forgotten about and the Fairy Godmother was never mentioned again. I also think that Ella had minimal character development and had no allies, so by incorporating her Fairy Godmother we could have seen a mentor/surrogate mother realtionship between the two, which would have developed Ella's character as well.