Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5698213-20130930195403/@comment-4839682-20140108052608

Grahamburglar wrote: Every single other fairy tale we've seen -- literally every single one -- has happened (and finished) by the time the curse was cast. And while the basically throw-away detail that this happened to Aurora's mother too was probably meant to explain this, the problem we have is these characters have the names we use for the characters in the fairy tale. Aurora and Phillip were given their names by the Disney movie... the characters in the original tales (both the French and German versions) were unnamed. Further, in the French version, the daughter of the Sleeping Beauty is named "L'Aurore".

Yes, one can argue that "Aurora" is widely attributed to the Sleeping Beauty herself thanks to Disney (although a preschool full of cute little girls I visited recently couldn't name her), but I don't see how having the first Sleeping Beauty be her mother makes a huge hole. In my eyes, Maleficent, the wicked fairy from the original tales, simply failed with the first Sleeping Beauty and went after her daughter. It doesn't mess with Disney's version in my mind XD