Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20160401165933/@comment-27257290-20160401181507

Exactly what I thought in the Labor of Love discussion. I love how the stories are presented in Once Upon a Time and always liked how the stories appeared to be pulled from Disney versions and then mixed in with their origins. After seeing Frozen, I loved it but was also disappointed how it has just about nothing in common with the original fairy tale. It was very satisfying to see Once combine the two in what I thought was a good story arc. I just thought it was pushing it when they gave the characters identical outfits to the film (even though Kristoff was rubbish in Once, in my opinion).

I just thought by the end of season 4 that they were deliberately going with Disney overtones. They used the outfits and music from Beauty and the Beast, Cruella exactly as she looks in 101 Dalmatians, and the Sorcerer's Hat, the brooms and the Chernabog looked so much like they did in Fantasia (except the hat looked a hundred times cooler). Because of all this, I thought it was supposed to be painfully obvious, so you can imagine my surprise if someone said Once doesn't base itself upon Disney movies and just happens to use the same stories because they're popular. There's a level of detail that cannot be ignored, but appreciated if anything.