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Totally agree. Peter Pan has lots of commendable positive traits, his confidence, his imagination and brave to name a few, have been the main focus of most of his adaptations in both literature and media. However his darker negative traits have largely been forgotten or heavily watered down. Re-reading the book as an adult, I still loved it, but it disturbed me and made me think more as an adult, something that it didnt do in the same way as a child. A world with no parents? GREAT!! A world with constant play time? EVEN GREATER!! The dark elements did not strike me, nor the tragic nature of Peter's story, never knowing how to love? That is really sad. It also made me think of the book Lord of the Flies, which is what I can see OUaT's Neverland as being slightly like. If there are no adults to tell children no or guide them, there would be total chaos, no order and no real rules. Most childrens dream and most adults nightmare.

I do not understand the HUGE fuss some people are making over the twist, it is almost like they have not read or understood the book at all, if at all they have read it. Or that they don't get the whole premise of the show, that the fairytales we thought we know are actually different. I love that.

I can see OuaT's Neverland as being a real challenge for the characters who set foot on it. Which is really exciting.