Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-776174-20131104054405/@comment-23906605-20131104104321

Perhaps the wait-and-see attitude from XxBadWolfxX was directed specificly to the fact that you're already suggesting Ariel might be the dullest and dumbest (pretty strong word, imo) character since Cinderella.

I, personally, agree with both DarKingdomHearts and XxBadWolfxX. I think she was a good addition to the story and I certainly felt she added something to it. After all, she is the key to retrieving something from Gold's shop so they can defeat Pan, get Henry and go home.

About staying true to the original Disney/fairy tale character... I honestly don't see what's wrong with that. Sure, OUaT writers have proved themselves amazingly good at twisting characters to the point that makes us go "Wow! Awesome!" (my personal favorites being Red and Pan), but I also enjoy when they keep the characters as true as they can be to their "original" versions and make minor changes in their story to, as you put it, weave it into the OUaT mythology. Good examples of that would be the Huntsman, the Evil Queen and now Ariel.