Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20150520161406/@comment-24674051-20150520181553

Let me reply.

Once does use Disney imagery. The names of the seven dwarves, and many of the looks for the characters are Disney inspired. No one will dispute that fact.

However, the statement that Once =/= Disney (or as Fararb so eloquently put it Once != Disney.  I prefer that notation, but not everyone understands what that means) Anyway. The statement is that while Once does use Disney Imagery, that choice is primarily to raise the familiarity level. Most everyone knows Cinderella and Snow White, but many only know them through what was Presented by Disney. Particularly the younger generation has not, in general, been exposed to the classic literature, but still knows the fairy tales due to Disney. The Disney library provides a source of readily available familiarity for most characters.

Many of the choices that Disney themselves made were based on the original tales. (If you watch Disney's Cinderella, and compare it to Rogers and Hammerstein's version, they are quite similar. Are you going to tell me that the R&H version is Disney Live?)

So, bottom line. DIsney has provided modernization (and whitewashing) of many of the classic fairy tales. It would be difficult to find a fairy tale (at least a western european fairy tale) that has not been, in some way, updated by Disney. But the show is not using the Disney versions of the characters in the show (with the exception of the Frozen cast). therefore, Once != Disney.