Tangled was on my list of movies to watch for the Once hiatus and I got it done. I hated the songs basically. They all seemed half-heartedly done. “Oh right, princess movie=singing. Check that off.”
I think Jennifer Morrison has talked excitedly about Emma being her own brand new fairy tale.I think that’s the story Emma would have. About the Princess, orphaned in a strange land and abandoned by Pinocchio, raised alone and unloved, returns to save an entire world, fights dragons, breaks curses with a kiss, and will probably fight the evil queen possibly even eventually Rumpelstiltskin.
I think we will continue to see the type of “memorable details” of classic fairy tales be things Emma faces but not to have her BECOME those fairy tales, simply to have a story of her own. I think it’d be cool if some day more pages are added to the book to include “Emma’s story”.
I was so insulted that the first “black” princess had to be in a voodoo story, I refuse to watch Princess and the Frog ever. I hope she’s never included in Once even though the show is horridly lacking in some color. I’m trying to brush it off as Canadian casting likely having a limited pool of non-white people I guess but it is a bit glaring. (And don’t even get me started on the number of token black guy TV tropes they managed to put into Sidney Glass. )
Anyway, I think we’ll see Emma deal with internal turmoil but not of the good vs. evil type. More just fighting with her own emotional hurt/damage/walls to connect to being both a daughter and mother now.