Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29195016-20160724204832/@comment-5106672-20161206175228

MickeysPal wrote: GothicNarcissus wrote: Guys, really. As a half-Russian, please: it would be like in 2100, on Once Upon A Time Season 89, they put a fairy tale rendition of 9/11 with Osama Bin Laden as the new Dark One.

Like, NOPE. I'm so sorry! I forget sometimes that the film is based on a real tragedy, and I get the film portrayal mixed up with the real events. I take back what I said about Rasputin. I realise how he was in real life was far different from how he was portrayed in the film. Again, I am truly sorry and I did not mean to offend anyone. Oh, don't worry: no offense taken, really! :) My point was more that it's very recent history (next year it will be a century since those events) whose ramifications still affect today's social, political and economical landscape, more or less directly. Then again, most fiction is based on real places and sometimes real events (someone named Black Beard), but I'd call a "too soon" card on it, it's still a polarising subject in and outside the Russian public conscience, can be viewed as propaganda, would be awkward… so it's kinda better left alone.

That's also why I frown upon Pocahontas the movie and wouldn't want it adapted onto OUAT, for instance: it romanticises events that went down quite differently and had brutal consequences that kind of still drag on today. Not as “too soon” as an Anastasia thing would be, but it might upset some people who still have to live with what that bit of history left them with.