Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25703308-20150417091913/@comment-1916997-20150419224132

Eskaver wrote: I will assume we see it in different ways. Once Upon a Time is built on the feud between Snow White and the Evil Queen, which was instigated by Rumplestiltskin search for his son, which leads to Emma's story of fairytale characters cursed into our world. That is the core story of this show. This is the focus of the show and what all stories gravitate towards.

Tell me who are the main characters. Then, that's what the show is about. Emma's story runs into many fairytale characters, but the significant part of her story is how it relates to her family, not peasant #5324 who happens to have encountered another fairytale character. Snow White and Regina runs into many fairytale characters in their feud filled with longing and hatred. Rumplestiltskin runs into the biggest treasure trove of fairytale characters in his phlight to find and make amends with his son.

This isn't Charlotte and her web of friends and Wilbur's journey. It's Wilbur is a friend of Belle that was cursed by Regina when he went to save her and Charlotte claimed she was a better spinner than Rumple, like Arachne vs Athena, and she was turned into a spider for her pride. That is what the show is about and will always be.

Care to give an example how you would effectively extend to recurring cast in a meaningful and realistic way? While the Snow White fairy tale was what they build the core of the show around, they were very clear that this show was not just about Snow White from the Pilot, where we see characters from Pinnocio, Rumplestilkin, and Little Red Riding Hood in flashback and present day. In the second episode we see a Sleeping Beauty character, in the third we see trolls from Three Billy Goats Gruff, and in the fourth we see multiple Cinderella characters. No one is denying that the Snow White characters will always play a role in this show, but we don't have to be stuck with them as the only characters we care about for the rest of the show either. Network TV shows will often have vastly different staring cast in their tenth season than what they had in their first season, due to lots of reasons, including actors getting bored with the role, contract negotiation breakdowns, the plot required them to kill off a main, etc. so we can't assume the shows mains will always be the most important characters in the plot. Furturemore, unlike shows like Grey's Anatomy and Castle, which literally have the main character's name in the title of the show, Once Upon A Time, does not link to any specific character or story, instead being the general start to all fairy tales (and to a lesser extent all stories in general), meaning that the show can very easily transition to another story and its characters being the most important. Not saying this will happen, just that it could, and it would be well within what the show established it was in the Pilot.