Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20140915180352/@comment-24674051-20140923180644

I can't speak for OUaTiW, as I never saw the show (at least, not past the first episode).

And I will agree that they have gone somewhat dark. I mean, how many times have we seen Regina, Cora, Hook, Rumple, or Zelena rip out someone's heart. Or seen the results of Red having dinner with her boyfriend (or was that having her boyfriend for dinner). That is definitely not something you would see in a Disney movie.

BUT, they have not gone the path of the protagonist actually being defeated, or committing suicide, or any of the other darker endings that you would find in a true Grimm or HCAnderson fairy tale. And let's face it, if you took the Disney version of Cinderella and stripped off the animated colors, fanciful birds and mice, and just looked at the story of a step-daughter that is abused by her step-mother and step-sisters, who is trapped as a slave in her own house, and her only desire is to escape the life she's been given to find a happier life somewhere else, that's a pretty dark picture.

My point is that they have not gone the totally light path, any more than they have gone the totally dark path. Do the good guys win? sure, usually after some amount of struggle. Do they get their happy ending? Maybe, maybe not. (consider Regina). Does the villian get a second chance? sometimes. There is a point of balance between the 2 views (light and dark), and my opinion is that the writers for the show generally do a good job finding that balance.