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I don't expect them to use HSM, Big Hero 6 or other movies like those. First of all they aren't fairytales... this show is called "Once Upon a Time" afterall. So I don't expect comic book heroes or video game characters, or characters from a (lame) genre within Disney to expose pathetic young actors and their mediocre singing and acting skills.

Our expecations are different. By your comment, I get that you think because I believe Once is a Disney show that I expect all that stuff you mentioned. I don't. On the other hand, you accept this show is owned by Disney and it occasionally shows Classic Disney movie scenes/characters/music/storylines (however vague or left field it is).

To me, this show is Disney (although I wouldn't call it "Live action", that seems loaded to me). But I see it as a show about the Disney fairytales, with added breadth, with more context, with artistic deviation, and more characters. As an analogy I'm now just making up at the top of my head, it's like me painting a Mona Lisa, give her long lashes and white nailpolish, with Frida behind her wearing a bowler hat and eating a green apple from the Son of Man. You can see the references, but the focal point is Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The focal point in Once is Disney's fairytale stories/characters.