Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6302057-20140707103046/@comment-24674051-20140716165642

Disney actually did a reasonable job, in most cases, of capturing the main essence of the original fairy tales. They added thier own twists (such as naming the dwarves in Snow White, or having the animal friends for Cinderella), but you can recognize the main elements of the background Fairy tale.

First, regarding Frozen, I think this is one case where Disney, while acknowledging the fairy tale as inspiration for the story, drastically departed from the original story. So bringing in the Characters of Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff is going to look like a 'continuation' of the disney movie. Now, I personally don't care one way or the other on this topic, as the creative team behind Once has delivered many enjoyable twists on familiar stories (Disney or otherwise), and I see no reason for them to stop now.

Second, I will agree that there have been some very significant nods to the Disney versions of the fairy tales. Primarily in the names of characters that were named in the Disney movies but were unnamed in the original works. Also, I feel that at least some of the initial personality for the characters were drawn from the Disney versions of the tales. (Snow White/Mary Margaret, for example, strikes me very much as Snow White from Disney). But again, I can't blame the writers for that. It is actually a good plot ploy to make the characters easily recognizable when they are first introduced, and THEN start the twisting. That may be part of where they go with the Frozen arc. That's just my opinion, though.

I just hope that, when the arc is finished, Elsa gets to hang around.