Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20150929051732/@comment-1916997-20160420011540

Lorisa214 wrote:

CoolDudeAl wrote:

Lorisa214 wrote: I did see the indian chief! How is that not a joke? It's where Bell was locked up in the insane asylum. AKA where the book takes place. There's no way Disney'd be allowed to do that story. Or want to. It's a joke. The same way House did it in season 6's 'Broken' (A show that Jennifer Morrison was also in) This is not Disney's show, this is ABC's show. And yes ABC is owned by Disney, but ABC is their adult division, meaning that OFOTCN is in fact fair game. Mind you, we aren't going to see all the things that happen in the book (as those would have to be TV-14 or even TV-MA), but seeing the asulym and implying patients are being torchured is fine. My personal theory is that Ratched and Chief are from the LWC, making this a horror story, but time will tell. We will likely find out more about them in Season 6, seeing as my original guess for why Ratched was seen so much this season seems to be correct. Hmm maybe. But they'd have to get the rights for the book and its characters first.

Also at Eskaver jokes can also be easter eggs. They do it a LOT in comic book movies and tv shows. Like in Supergirl her Earth parents are played by Clark from Clark and Lois and her mom is the original Supergirl. Or...The mass majority of Deadpool. It's sometimes things they can't touch on, or just want to give a little shout out to. It is entirely possible that OFOTCN is in the public domain, if you look at this chart, unless you have done specific things to stop it, something published in 1962 (which is when OFOTCN was published) is in the public domain. Even if it is not in the public domain, I doubt it would cost very much for ABC to get the rights to it, it's not exactly like everyone is chomping at the bit to do a OFOTCN tv show. Anyway, here is the chart:

http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm