Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24376757-20150403035127/@comment-1916997-20150410182107

Eskaver wrote:

CoolDudeAl wrote:

Hmcooper4 wrote: I agree. And if you think about it, Frankenstien was in it from the start.

But classic literature, particularly where it has some fantasy elements, would work well. Things like Camelot work well, as would Treasure Island, and possibly even Sherlock Holmes. Things like Dracula and Hunchback are borderline, but could be made to work. We've even seen Nursery Rhymes introduced.

But some stories/genres would not work nearly as well. Westerns, Romance, Historical, Sci-Fi, and Most Horror (things like Halloween, Nightmare, Stephen King, etc) would not play well in this environment, imo. Any literature could work on the show, but most of it would have to have its own world, so I doubt we will see it. For example, they confirmed Victorian England is for British literature of that time period. So basically besides Alice, works by Jane Austen (which we saw a bit of Pride and Prejudice), Charles Dickens, etc. all exist there. Like I said though, seeing as they still have plenty of more traditional fantasy stories to tell, I doubt we will see much of these other genres. Maybe if we get another spinoff show. Not every literature belongs, only classical. We don't need Clifford the Big Red Dog or Goodnight Moon to be apart of the Once Universe. Once's Universe has a theme and not everything fits in it. And, lol, you only listed traditional lit (unless you meant any traditional lit?) Yes, I don't use the word literature to mean children's picture books. I don't think all the literature (let me clarify, by this I mean any fiction that can be enjoyed and appreciated by adults, no offense to picture books, but they are clearly not intended to be enjoyed and appreciated by adults, whereas children's literature, like Harry Potter, clearly can be) on the show has to be x years old to be on the show, but I do think we won't see literature newer than like 1990 (and even that is a generous date) just because of the additional costs the copyright holders would want for newer stuff. Plus, anything that is newer and popular, probably has a movie adaptation already, which means additional copyright holders that will also want money.