Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25703308-20170919214308/@comment-1916997-20170919215238

Do you want an in universe reason or an out of universe reason? The in universe is a bit trickier, but probably has to do with how fairy tales often have multiple versions. The out of universe reason is much easier. Most common fairy tales and stories and such were already done on Once, which meant we either got a season with a bunch of lesser known stories (which would lose many people) or we get new versions of stories already done, but that didn't get much of a focus (for example: Cinderella only got two episodes that actually touched on aspects of that story in FB; Alice only got a spin-off, and only a few characters from Wonderland were even on the main show; and Rapunzel got only one episode period). I also like to point out it's not like we didn't have multiple takes on the same character already. Briar Rose and Aurora are both the Sleeping Beauty, Ariel and Ursula are both the Little Mermaid, Rumple and Phillip are both the Beast, etc. Overall, I think they probably made the best choice they could, and besides, we'll still get some totally new stories, like The Frog Prince/The Princess and The Frog, for example.