Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20180206195120/@comment-31937823-20180306021629

DatNuttyKid wrote: TheRose123 wrote: DatNuttyKid wrote:

TheRose123 wrote: She could be Mother Nature as well as the daughter. Her mother could have raised her with the intention that she would grow up to be Mother Nature, but the burdens and responsibilities are too much for her so she seeks living with humans. However, the humans trick her into letting them into the home of the nmyphs, where they slaughter her people. She is then left alone, and gains the true scope of her powers through the pain she suffered watching her loved ones die. But that's almost exactly Anton's backstory, except with added Magic™. At this point in the show, they're repeating various plotlines with only slight variations. There are some similarities -- you could say Lucy's coma is like Henry's sleeping curse, for example. But most of our new characters' backstories have been entirely unique. Case in point, Rapunzel Tremaine. We've never seen a Disney princess fall to villainy, and the plot of her husband moving on and starting a new family without her has never been done before. Tiana is the leader of a rebellion, like Snow, but her kingdom being broke is new (although worldbuilding-wise, a bit questionable) and her life leading up to the rebellion is nothing like Snow's.

With Rapunzel/Tremaine, her story somewhat echoes what they did with Marian. They both were loved by their husbands and left a child/children behind, then they disappeared. Their husbands then move on, and they are pushed to the side. The story branches out from there, but as I said before, at this point it’s hard for the stories this season to be inherently original. Regina has already been through the situation she is now with Henry (3B) and Jacinda is fighting for her child like Emma did in season one. Zelena being engaged is akin to Emma dating Walsh before she remembers her past in 312. Other instances of similarities are somewhat obvious, but I like what they did with Ivy because that felt fresh.