Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35659464-20181215100347/@comment-25302463-20190703191738

Victor Colares wrote:

-This one isn't a complaint but more of a contrivance;  How is Black Beard a character? He's a historic figure. He's a real life dude. Acording to some, Mulan is a historic figure too. I think that the EF version of Black Beard is not how he was in our world, but how the people see him. He basically is the legendary version of him, the romantized version, one that is based in myths rather than in historic truth, therefore, a storybook character, like all in the Enchanted Forest. Yeah I got that impression too but I meant more in the sense that Blackbeard was relatively more recent history which we have actual historic documents of, and artifacts which he owned, and know where his ship sank and a decent part of his personal life/history while Mulan was documented thousands of years ago in what was already a fantasy story-like format and which got altered through pnemetic circulation over the eras effectively making her part of the mythology/folklore itself.

Like I find it odd cause we never actually see Blackbeard doing any real Blackbeard things in the show like we never see his personal story or any stories that he might be involved in, it just kinda seems like a footnote like "Hey you know that guy who terrorized the gulf of Mexico, held the port of Charleston for ransom and did some other things which I can't even mention in a PG13 wikia?  Yeah he's a guy here.  What do you mean you have questions or intrigue, he was in a Disney Property we can use him"

Like are other romanticized historic-figures characters? Is Davy Crockett a character? Billy the Kid? Jack the Ripper? Vlad the Impaler? Julius Caesar? Pochahon- Nope. Not even gonna risk putting that idea in the writers heads.

Honestly I actually kinda like that Blackbeard is a character but I'm more upset he was underused both conceptually and in practice then opened up weird world-building contrivances which they never bothered to even try to answer. Like at the least they could have thrown Anne Bonny in somewhere so we get SOME understanding of what's happening you know