Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24718835-20141112013800/@comment-1894786-20141127004351

Anubis16 wrote: MattPriceTime wrote: I agree, Once's takes on Snow Queen/Frozen and Little Mermaid to me were very well handled.

And on the above, while it's not possible to get a full picture on anything's popularity, but from what I know, 101 Dalmatians when it came out was my Mom's favorite book, but I don't think it was really that popular before the Disney movie helped it. (when i say not that popular know that I subscribe that most things are reasonably popular, but the internet really tries to make a lot of things out of proportion)

The fact it also had a sequel puts it in the category of a bunch of book series that get eclipsed by the movies that stopped before they finished telling the original story.

Some good examples for context:

The books that inspired The Black Cauldron are five books to one movie

There's like 20 Tarzan books, but most people only seem familar with the first

Old Yeller splits the difference, with three books, only two into movies

Disney's Jungle Book was a mix and not very faithful mash up of two short story collections

I can list some non-Disney related ones if anyone else is interested in this train of the conversation.

But on a more regular subject, I look forward to Cruella a lot on this show. I think she could work on the show, Once is about classic characters and people refrence Cruella deVille for evil rich women and etc. so I think she's classic enough to be on the show, I also had a dream the other night where Mary Poppins was on the show, but of course she was evil, do you think Once could ever get the rights to Mary Poppins since Disney did the movie version because I heard that in P.L. Travers will she stated she didn't want any movie versions of the book made again That Tom Hanks movie was in a way a version of the Mary Poppins story because it was about how Disney convinced her to let him do it. And Bex Mader said she based Storybrooke Zelena off of Mary Poppins, too. So even though Zelena isn't a dual character (like Charming/Pauper, Regina/Ursula, Rumple/Crocodile, etc.) Mary technically could be said to have been done on the show.

And besides, a movie does not equal a television show. I'm sure A&E could get the rights to Mary Poppins. I just hope they put her in Victorian England so we can finally get some Sherlock Holmes and some more Alice and Cyrus.