Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-12698078-20130924211033/@comment-22525977-20130926064630

I'm not arguing that other media hasn't been mentioned before (it has), I'm saying that I'm hoping that the fact that it was mentioned in a preview review means that it shows up in the premiere significantly to be worth mentioning, i.e. as an actual discussion rather than throwaway lines. (F'rinstance, if this were We Are Both being reviewed, the writer of the review would absolutely not have included a "and David talks about reading Alice in Wonderland!" bullet point. It's ONE LINE and not worth mentioning—all the talk in the linked article and elsewhere about how Neal brings up the Disney movie of Mulan to real Mulan's face implies that it's going to be an actual conversation)

I want to know HOW and WHY these stories exist in the Once version of our world. In the real world, they're fictional stories that came from people's imaginations; in the Once 'verse, they're accounts of actual real people, albeit inaccurate ones, and in addition to that, they're not historical accounts, they're stories of people who are alive now. Which gets even messier when one considers that all of these stories have been around for centuries in our world.

The implication there is that there's a lot of timeline weirdness going on between our world and the various other realms. The show already has vehicles for the information crossover in place—there's the portal jumpers, a plethora of things that transport people between worlds, however the Home Office does its thing, and so on—and I'd be really, really excited if this got examined in the show itself.

Another possibility is that the causality is reversed and the FTR/Land without color/Wonderland/Neverland/whatever came from the stories themselves, like fiction becomes real and takes on a life of its own in a parallel universe. Which would also be super cool and have the added benefit of justifying why the Once version of things is so different from the source texts and so interconnected and crossover-y.

Or: David saying he has memories of reading Alice in Wonderland as a kid does not explain how Alice in Wonderland exists in a world where Wonderland is real and the Carroll account is a close but not perfect version of events. Compare to the Looking Glass Wars trilogy, where the reason the books are so different from real!Wonderland and the events that took place there is because Charles Dodgson took severe liberties with what Alyss told him because he thought she was making it up and accuracy didn't matter.

Basically I don't want more proof that other media representations of these stories exist in Onceland, I want justifications for that fact.