Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34924658-20180114003859/@comment-25926288-20180114005617

I'd reconfigure the present notion.

I think the question posed is "How could I handle things differently?"

I think the writers asked "Who/What can I explore?"

The writers aren't going about with the idea "I should redo some mistakes", but "I have new opportunities." They aren't hitting high rung characters from Once 1 through 6 the same way each season doesn't hit on major characters from the previous season. The question is the same.

It's "How can I demonstrate the many variations of stories? How can I tell a new Cinderella? Other new characters, etc." They aren't going to choose super major ones because that's redundant and a bad pitch and really not good for audiences.

Imagine if they went to Channing Dungey and said "Hey, we got a idea. What if an Evil Witch cast a spell over an entire kingdom, sending them to our world. Opposing her was a beautiful Princess and her prince, who saved her from eternal slumber. That Princess befriended a ragtag bunch, Dorothy and her friends. Dorothy with her exquisite blue-checkered cloak is not all that she seems....""

In the bigger scheme of things, no character is cast as minor in perpetuity. There's nothing wrong with them using variations of minor characters....because they are major characters.