Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20160725161558/@comment-1916997-20160727053813

ItachiIshtar wrote: I still don't see them ever touching Pocahontas, due to Pocahontas actually being a very real historical person. She's not some fairy tale or fictional literary character. It just wouldn't come off right if she was actually supposed to have existed in the Land Without Magic back in the 1600s, but is instead living in Neverland or some other fictional realm. Now you could argue Mulan was an adaptation of a historical figure, but there's been dispute over whether she was a real person or just a legend. Blackbeard is another example, but you could argue that OUAT's Blackbeard only shares his nickname, and isn't actually Edward Teach. You can't say the same thing for Pocahontas, who has many confirmed living descendants today. There's also the issue of  how controversial it's been depicting Native Americans in popular culture. It's no secret that the Native Americans in the Disney Peter Pan are seen as racist today, especially their song "What Makes the Red Man Red". That's why both the sequel Return to Neverland and the Kingdom Hearts series have avoided showing the Native Americans again completely. Chances are, that's why there weren't seen in Neverland in Season 3 either. So I think even if Adam and Eddy wanted to adapt her, Disney would veto the idea fast. It's the combined risk of historical inaccuracies and racial stereotypes.

Even the film Pocahontas has had its own share of backlash from both present day Native Americans and historians. This type of hypersensitivity has not died down either. Just this year, J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame received her own backlash from Native Americans, due to the way she adapted them in her History of Magic in North America article for Pottermore.com. I'm very torn about Pocahontas. On one hand she is based on a real person, and so I don't want to see her, as that would beg the question, as to why their is a fictional version of a LWM person. But on the other hand, she is also a Disney Princess, and I'd feel it would be unfair to do all of them except her (and with Jasmine confirmed and The Frog Prince, with Tiana, likely to be adapted at some point, that only leaves Pocahontas). As far as the Native American thing goes, that just annoys me. If you don't feature them in things, they say you are pretending they don't exist. If you do feature them in things, they say you are making fun of their culture. Basically, you are screwed either way. I don't think a show, especially a show like Once, should not feature them, because someone might get annoyed. Especially because 1. they are in the source material (like Peter Pan) and 2. they are all going to be from fictional worlds, so they can't really do them incorrectly. Just like Mulan is not Chinese, because their is no China in FTL, or Arthur is not British, because their is no Great Britian in FTL. Anyway, that's my two cents on that.