Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26235531-20150327013221/@comment-1894786-20150511193247

Eskaver wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Eskaver wrote: Rena Charming wrote: Why is Black Beard being discussed again? What is even wrong with him? He's a minor character anyway, and I've enjoyed all of his appearances.

Will sucks on this show and the writers should lower their heads in shame. I agree...with the Blackbeard thing. Just because he shows up in minor ways doesn't mean he is pointless, unless you call the townsfolk pointless.

Will is hoepfully given something next season (Belle totally threw him to the dogs!) or they just can't adapt properly or shouldn't did the Frozen arc if it was going to throw them off this badly. Actually, it seems like it was the Queens Of Darkness arc that f'd them up so badly. They had Will pretty involved in 4A (well, as involved as can be when you're a minor character) and they ALWAYS said that he was going to have a greater role in 4B. So if we hadn't had all those damn villains coming on at once, we would've gotten more of Will. Don't blame Frozen for everything. ;)

And yes, Rena, I would love Pocahontas on the show. It's never going to happen because of how sensitive she is, but I'd love it. We need more of a non-European presence on this show and since it's an American TV show set in the US, it's sad that they haven't done Native American stories yet (let's not even get into the fact that they haven't touched American classics...) Frozen provided the ratings and buzz, but QoD was their plan and would likely have been a season giving Mal more time as well as the others to do stuff and could have lengthened the AU.

Pocahontas is too historically based and then if they cast the wrong person or get the story wrong, someone will get really angry! That's the thing, though. There's her real life, which would make a lot of Native Americans happy but might be too risqué for Once (she was married at 14, if I remember correctly), and there's her Disney story, which everyone knows but might upset the Native American community (actually, Pocahontas' father was played by a huge Native American rights advocate and he was a big part in helping Disney adapt the story, so I'm not exactly sure how Native Americans feel about the movie).

It'd be a safer bet to just go with Brother Bear lol Still Native American, not really tied to any one tribe or any one time, and the whole "cursed to be a bear" thing is totally fairytale-esque. I'm not sure if it has a literary counterpart, however.