Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25703308-20170919214308/@comment-25926288-20170919221233

Well, part of your perspective is that "1-6 showed the living, breathing Cinderella that all versions were based on", however we know that was never the case. We have had two Sleeping Beauties since seasosn 2.

Why Cinderella? Cinderella is a pretty popular story. Season 6's highest viewed show was 6x03: The Other Shoe. It also can provide a chance to explore other versions. Against my strawman, I see it this way:

Rando: "I hated that Rapunzel in Season 3. I didn't watch that poorly rated spin-off Alice. Why are they replacing Cinderella?"

Me: "If you think Rapunzel and Alice can have second versions, ignoring that we have two sleeping beauties, two Ursulas..... we can have two Cinderellas. The only characters we won't have another version of are the main cast as it has been too long with the main cast."

There was always questions about "How does the LWM know these stories?" "The timeline of these stories wouldn't make sense!" Then there were theories that stories repeat themselves, time and time again. If Walt "Disney" was an author and made his stories (which we know and love), then Issac wrote his own versions of the story that he saw, and now Henry is doing the same, etc.

To recap,

1. Cinderella ia a solid staple in Fairytale anything.

2. Explore unanswered things, while giving a new twist on other things.

3.  The show would be cancelled, lol. Some people are wondering why no Moana, etc, but looking at Aladdin and Jasmine....the story wasn't the best, those episodes did not burst the ratings (they actually slid diwnward, while Cinderella's episode rose things).