Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25896389-20150514071947/@comment-11464223-20150724042832

Hey, so as far as I know, "gravedigging" threads is OK on this wiki (last I checked at least) as long as your new response is something constructive/contributive. Correct me if I'm wrong please.

I also just wanted to bring this thread back because I thought it was brilliant and want to see more discussion on it. This fascinates me and gets my "writer's-gears" going (I'm a writer).

I DO have some more to add though, to everything I've already said (yes, alllll of that, lol...) about what I would change.

I would change that there are all these different worlds set in different time periods and permanently stuck in them. I *HATE* that the Darlings were from some made-up world and not from our world. I *HATE* that Cruella was from some "1920s England World," and that all the OUaTiW events happened in Wonderland and "Victorian England World." It would've been much, MUCH better, in my opinion, to keep all these characters rooted in OUR world, the LWM. I just feel like all these random worlds cropping up have little to no potential and are created just for one character, which is dumb. I agree with Wonderland and Neverland and the Enchanted Forest and Oz and the Netherworld and LWC (I'll say a word or two about that in a bit) and those (not sure if I'm missing any aha but anyways), but the "time-period worlds" are just dumb. They make no sense - Why would a world be stuck in a certain time period?

Furthermore, it would HELP the story if some characters were from the LWM. It would help realize (as in make more real) the show for it to be that way. It would accentuate these characters' non-magic-ness. It would take away some of the [INSERT ARE-YOU-KIDDING-ME-MEME FACE HERE] faces we make when "faith" or "destiny" plays a massive role and just randomly brings all these people from the EF together in the massive, MASSIVE LWM (Emma and Neal, Emma and Lily, Emma and Ingrid...). It would do all these good things, and just do little-to-no bad things. I honestly can't think of many, if any good reasons as to why there are these random "time-period" worlds.

As far as the LWC goes... I just wanted to clarify that I actually think it has serious potential, and is a very interesting idea to explore. I think that they could do Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, they could do Dracula, and perhaps even some lesser-known stuff. Hell, I could see Sherlock Holmes fitting in the LWC moderately well, if not the EF (yes, I'm aware they said the only way they'd ever do Sherlock would be with Benedict Cumberbatch...), but my point is, it has potential. These other worlds... they have little-to-no potential, and make little sense.

Tl;dr If I was in charge of ONCE, I would get rid of these "time-period worlds" and make their characters from our world (LWC excluded, just to clarify - not sure if it counts as a "time-period" world anyways).