Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27079851-20171120082917/@comment-1826156-20180315171005

I don’t think it is thought past surface level or a kid’s cartoon. I mean The Prince assaults Snow White, but it’s not suppose to be thought past surface level and that’s what the writers were probably intending. (Their explanations though doesn’t show any real deep thought into those dynamics at play.) I kind of disagree with your first part but agree with the second part. I don't see the Prince in the Disney movie Snow White as assaulting her. (Definitely not in the Once version). In the Disney film, Snow White was believed to be dead and he was saying goodbye, judging by his shock. (We could go into the sanity of kissing the corpse of someone you met once on the mouth but I'd rather not!) In Once he knew about True Love's Kiss. Either way, there was no rape or coercion involved.

In some versions of Sleeping Beauty, however this is not true. Oddly enough it's the Grimm's who use a kiss to wake up her while older versions have the prince take advantage of her as she sleeps (while he is married to another princess, no less) and one of her babies wake her up nine months later.

I do agree that the writer's do not want us to, nor do they themselves, probably look past the surface of what is going on. But of course we will because they are handling some pretty adult topics.