Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5154975-20140830155800/@comment-25125349-20141118025552

Let me first address something that I think is a major cause for a bit of trial here. There are a LOT of people that would really like to see a franchise of lit cross up get somewhere and go somewhere. Right now this show and Penny Dreadful are all we've got, and while both aimed originally at a certain genre, there is always going to be clamoring for them to keep going further. This is obviously not going to fly with people that are aiming more at Disney only, but it is going to continue unless something else rises up to take that portion of the audience content with something else.

Once is on it's foruth season and has gone decently far off the "fairy tale" defintion already. I get confused when i read comments in here that seem to relate anything Disney=fairy tale. And get confused why some people are "okay" with some of the things already in but not with others? Once has already used fairy tales, literature, mythology and people of folklore. To which most of the suggestions in here aren't somehow outside those restrictions. But I take it this isn't really in any way meant hypocritically, just that people are labeling things in different ways and others just don't do it the same way.

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Now for some ideas of my own now that we got that out of the way.

- I've had the theory for a while since Blue mentioned the black fairy that the Dark one curse was made by the black fairy. Since the Dark One is Once's Beast, in the original Beauty and the Beast it is a evil fairy that curses the beast. So i think this would work well.

- I'd also like to see Puss in Boots integrated into Cora's backstory somehow. In that story the Miller has three sons. Maybe they could make him related. Puss himself could be something more magical in this version.

- For some other villain ideas, i'd like to say Dracula could be a cool idea from the LWC, but some more fairy tale ideas would include the Solider from the Tinder Box with his three monsterous dogs (he's a protagonist in the story but still a jerk), the Evil Prince and maybe even include the Red shoes for a comedy episode.

- Also i'm intrigued by a Toyland idea, but I'd prefer it be a ETA Hoffmann world. With the likes of the Nutcracker, The Sandman, and for fun maybe even Tomcat Murr.

- And for a last suggestion, since they made refs to Rip Van Winkle, i hope stories other stories by Irving and other American tales could be considered if the show keeps going.