Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26261400-20160803213132/@comment-4453062-20160804041915

Eskaver wrote: ItachiIshtar wrote: The thing with Frozen and Brave is that Adam and Eddy said that because those movies were already modern, they felt no need to do a twisted re-telling of either of those stories. They instead chose to tell what happened AFTER the events of the movies, with the twist being how those characters fit together with the rest of the OUAT universe. Now that could be why some fans argued against including Frozen and Brave in the first place, but naturally Adam and Eddy couldn't help themselves. In terms of ratings, Frozen actually helped a lot, whether people enjoyed the arc or not. Such is true. A good business move, but I think they should return those "Master Storyteller" titles. XD

In others' sight (I came across on the web), it's that they more or less just plopped Frozen and Brave into the show without much thought. Then, they twisted the show around to accomodate for that. Example: Elsa's magic in Frozen is sort of vague. In the show, it matches neither light or Dark magic (which can do practically the same things). Arendelle was an 1800s setting, now inserted into the pre-1800s Fairytale world.

But Frozen at least had the Snow Queen backing, while Brave... I think the biggest missed opportunity with Frozen was not taking enough advantage of what was previously set up by previous episodes, in order to make everything feel organic. Most of the Frozen flashbacks were about the Frozen characters, and not enough about our core group. We had flashbacks such as "A Tale of Two Sisters", "Rocky Road", and "Fall", which featured none of the regulars. Here's an example of how they could have tied Frozen better. Back in "The Queen is Dead", we learned that Snow was born during the harshest winter of all. Wouldn't it have made total sense if Ingrid had somehow been the cause of that harshest winter? The birth of Snow is such a big event in the show's established history.