Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20171119141537/@comment-1295345-20171120074408

CoolDudeAl wrote: 8Rob wrote: Nice theory but it's not like everyone had a happy ending in the original EF.

- Snow and Charming were never truly happy because Regina was always around (3x10, 6x20)

- Elsa and Anna were separated. Elsa was trapped in the urn and Anna and Kristoff were frozen (4x08)

- Belle and Rumple were separated. Rumple thought she was dead but Belle was kidnaped by the EQ (1x12, 2x11)

- Ruby killed and ate her boyfriend (1x15)

- Guinevere was cursed into thinking she loved Arthur (5x04)

- Ariel and Eric were separated (3x06)

- Aladdin and Jasmine were also separated (6x05)

- Maleficent lost her child (4x16)

All of this happened before Regina cast the Dark Curse Many of the things you listed happen in other realms in FTL, like Arendelle, Camelot, and Agrabah, none of which are the Enchanted Forest. Some of the other ones were still overall good. Snow and Charming got to be married and take over ruling the kingdom, with Regina being defeated. That's the whole reason she had to cast the Dark Curse, she couldn't do anything to them in EF. The only ones who actually had happy endings were snow and charming, gepetto and pinochio. Interestingly enough these were the only characters we saw in the pilot at least showing their happy ending. It's like they DID originally have this premise that fairy tale characters actually had happy endings before they actually got into the series thinking, 'hey, let's make the characters miserable in fairy tale land completely ignoring what was stated in the premise!'  Just like they retconned Regina into being a more sympathetic character (unless snow never told Charming why she was trying to kill her all this time for some reason).