Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-5367821-20130209055547/@comment-5367821-20130212082520

Fractuared Fairytales wrote: If you can give me a darn good reason for it, I'm not totally against changing a characters background/gender/race etc.

Wow reading this has kinda become a debate on racial diversity than what was meant to be which is: Their own perfect version of Peter Pan.

I'd imagine Peter Pan as Asian because Pan would stand out more than the usual actors that portray the characters in OUAT because Peter Pan is such an iconic fairy tale character and so keeping to tadition is kinda boring, like look out cool Rumple was than the little troll. e.g. look at Mulan, she certainly stood out from all the cast compared to Aurora or Belle. Once upon a time, I think is about changing up the traditional fairy tale stories and adaptions and giving it a new twist as well as modernizing it, which now days the world has evolved and therefore become more diverse. Also in my opinion Peter Pan has similar aspects to Asian performers and if lucky could make Peter Pan do martial arts. Now that I think about it Steven Spielberg’s Hook, had Rufio who was a surrogate for Peter Pan.

Anyways, I thought casting an asian would be a cool twist to the traditional fairytale which Once Upon a Time is known to do.