Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-5367821-20130209055547/@comment-84.31.124.252-20130502123344

Philrena wrote: I think if they are going to use the same names as they are given in the Disney films (as lots of the names are only how they are called in Disney and not in the origional stories), and that is is a Disney/abc made show and seeing as how the Disney version is how many people only know of the fairy stories anyway, they need to be at least similar to how they appear in the disney films so that they are familiar to the audience watching

 I don't agree. First, Disney is part of the distribution, nothing more. The creative freedom the writers and producers take is what makes this show as strong as it is. The fact that people know a lot of the stories from Disney-productions shouldn’t be relevant and shouldn't be taken into account, since it would be a limiting factor. Also, don't forget that the well-known stories were known to people, even before the Disney-films. Disney certainly was part of and added their part to the storytelling over the last few decades. That doesn't mean that the image portrayed by them should be the norm for all future telling of these stories.

Also, don't forget that most of the Disney flicks were from the nineties. That was twenty years ago. And people aren't stupid. If the storytellers tell you that character A is fariytale character X, you'll know it. If they can make a black guy fit in the role of a character I always thought of as white, I wouldn't care. It's different with most other ethnicities, since the entnicity is often part of the story.