Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5154975-20140830155800/@comment-26104918-20150225025328

CoolDudeAl wrote: KevinJDevaney wrote: ''Mickey Mouse will not be on this show, at least not as a character. He does not fit what this show is going for. The show is not Disney themed, but literature themed, while using Disney iconography because it is iconic and they can as ABC's parent company is Disney. As Mickey Mouse did not originate from literature, he won't be a character on the show. The Three Little Pigs on the other hand have a literature origin, which makes them doable, but I still don't know if we will see them. If Eddy and Adam can fit them in, in a way that is interesting and makes sense, they will. I wouldn't hold my breath though. ''Is that 'holding the breath' statement there an intended pun?

Well, I do understand what you're saying, but I personally still think that Mickey Mouse should be on the show. I would love to see how he would fit in. Yes, the creators did say that they haven't any intentions or plans to bring Mickey into the show, but I honestly think tht they should. And the show is Walt-Disney-themed because either ABC owns Disney or Disney owns ABC. Mickey, as I just said, is the mascot of Disney and so, to me, it makes sense for him to be brought into the show. I just think that he should be in the show because to me it doesn't feel compelte without him. If he was to be in the show, at least, he should be given an Enchanted Forest role where he could've once been an apprentice to Rumplestiltskin or something and maybe he could be a faithful sidekick to the heroic characters. I'm not trying to offend or be rude or anything. it's just what I think and feel. I hope that you understand.

And, yes, I agree that Granny's story sounds just like The Wolf And The Seven Little Kids, too. I wodner if that'll be addressed in the show. As for The Three Little Pigs, I like tos ee them on the show, but without any twist upon their story. The Big Bad Wolf should still be a villain, but wiht a certain reason why that led him to become a villain (maybe something that caused a rivalry in-between him and The Three Little Pigs).

By the way, I kept thinking that what if any of us fans could write for the show or something. I'm not sure if that's possible. I wrote to Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz last year, asking them that question, but they haven't responded back for several months. It could be because they're busy filming the show, but at least they can actually write back when they're not so busy, though. Hold your breath wasn't intentional, but I did realize the pun after I wrote it, so I left it, lol. It's fine if you think Mickey should be on the show, I just don't see it. The Aprentice did have a nod to Mickey though in that Rumple turned him into a mouse. Adam and Eddy are most likely only going to hire people who are already writers for TV shows. If your interested in writing for tv you should take college classes in screenwriting. That would be the first step. Well, if your younger than college age finish high school, then do that.

I agree with some points on both sides of the Mickey argument, but overall I don't think I want him on the show. While a lot of the show alludes to Disney (for example, many characters take their names from Disney adaptations. The dwarves and the blue fairy were not called what they are now in the original stories), it takes a good amount of substance from literature in general, whether it be fairytales of other stories (Frankenstein, Wizard of Oz, etc.) Unless I'm incorrect, everything in the show has a tie to a piece of literature, even if it resembles something from a Disney movie. Even the most recent things have ties - Frozen is based upon The Snow Queen (a fairytale), and the Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia is a poem. Mickey is unlike those - he originated as a cartoon and not as a part of literature. He has a tie to Disney and their movies in general, but having Mickey on the show, even if he was a human, would be too foreign to the nature of the show. I think it's fine to have nods to him, like they did in The Apprentice, but I don't think anything more would work.