Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20141222210529/@comment-9241531-20150106201916

Hmcooper4 wrote: I agree that using some Shakespere could be very effective. Your Idea for Hamlet/Lion King is really good. the Quirky old man as advisor wouold be Zazu, though. The role that matches Rafiki could actually be a Wizard. And I would make the Scar figure have an eyepatch, with the scar being seen running above and below the patch.

You could also bring in Midsummer nights dream, and play total havoc with all of the ships (CS, OQ, SW, etc) on the show. That would definitely be a one or two episode storyline, and very light hearted.

For tying in Hook, I would go to different source material altogether. Another classis, Treasure Island, lends itself very well to bringing in some ties to Hook. Or maybe 20000 leagues under the sea. Zazu - that's right!!! I totally forgot about him. He'd work, too. He'd be more of a stiff. Rafiki would be the quirkier cast.

Treasure Island - nice call.

I could really see the TLK working. I mean, it's so funny when we see Emma react to fairytales being real. "Tinkerbell?  Everyone one from my world knows who she is.". And she had some pretty great reactions to the Wicked Witch being real. Imagine if she found out that that cute little lion cub Simba was actually a human w/ a dark, evil uncle? She'd lose her mind. I know she understands that her family is from the EF, but c'mon. I think we'd a classic Emma, "Really?" when she stumbles upon proof that TLK is real. (This being said, I'm sure she's going to do it when she finds out Cruella is real.  She already knows about the existence of Maleficent and probably about Ursula, since she's met Ariel.)