Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25375217-20150711180920/@comment-1894786-20150712222157

Eskaver wrote: Anubis16 wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: DatNuttyKid wrote: Lol Jon Negroni's Pixar theory... as much as I love it, it's just a theory, so I doubt it'll be featured/referenced on OUAT. Actually, he published a book about it. And we all know how Once loves literature. :P

All jokes aside, I hope the Witch has a focus in Once. I hope it's not like Frozen where every single character is dragged on the show (looking at you, Oaken!) but I hope it's not solely Merida. It was kind of sad when they only brought Rapunzel and her silent parents on the show and excluded Gothel and Flynn. Well I think with Rapunzel they were trying to adapt the actual story and not Tangled, and I think what they were trying to do was that her own fear was keeping her in the tower and not an actual person so only she could escape the tower by facing her fear  Yeah, Um, Once =/= Disney....lol. (I'm kidding to an extent. Flynn has no basis and with so many vairations, I'm happy they did the more fairytale like one. Sometimes there isn't even a Gothel, which once cleverly twisted to be the deepest fear. Flynn Rider and Gothel are both in the original Rapunzel tale. Flynn is a prince who falls for Rapunzel's voice and is blinded by the witch of the tower (Gothel) with barbed vines from the tower walls. But he regains his sight when Rapunzel sings to him, which was the basis of Rapunzel's healing powers in Tangled.

Gothel was just merged with Rapunzel as the personification of her fear, while Charming replaces Flynn as Rapunzel's prince (and then Emma shows allusions to both Tangled's Rapunzel and Flynn during Operation Mongoose).