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I love the fact that the person who will play Prince Eric is named Gil. It’s pretty ironic since Prince Eric falls in love with a mermaid and gills are fish organs.
[adrotate group="5"]Keeper of Tamara's death, Cyrus's bottle, Ariel's red hair, and the mermaid that got turned into a statue in the season 3 premiere episode.
Don’t see it personally. OUAT may be able to put their own spin where certain characters can mesh up with another but I don’t see Disney allowing one of their biggest cash cows (just in time for the blue ray release) to have been pregnant with Captain Hook. The only reason they allowed the Snow White/Emma loophole was because Emma isn’t an established Disney/Literary character and she’s the female lead of the show. Which brings the other obvious point that would undermine the show’s premise by taking away Emma’s unique journey and cutting and pasting it to a supporting character to appease a selective shipper group.
It’ll be more interesting to see who ends up playing Liam though.
I agree!!!!
Oh, I remember his Supernatural ep! He came back in time and met Sam and Dean and it’s how they introduced the whole Men of Letters storyline.
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Don’t see it personally. OUAT may be able to put their own spin where certain characters can mesh up with another but I don’t see Disney allowing one of their biggest cash cows (just in time for the blue ray release) to have been pregnant with Captain Hook. The only reason they allowed the Snow White/Emma loophole was because Emma isn’t an established Disney/Literary character and she’s the female lead of the show. Which brings the other obvious point that would undermine the show’s premise by taking away Emma’s unique journey and cutting and pasting it to a supporting character to appease a selective shipper group.
It’ll be more interesting to see who ends up playing Liam though.
Agreed with all of that.
Firstly, the resemblance, I don’t see it. All I see is that they have completely differently shaped noses (Gil’s is much wider, Colin’s is longer) and mouths (Gil’s is short with really wavy lips, Colin’s is longer and straighter).
As for making Ariel pregnant with Hook, like KFC said, Disney did make Ariel a mother…but not until after her initial story was told. As of right now, we don’t know how many eps she’ll be in, but no matter the number, I doubt they’d jump to her being pregnant the first time we see her, when there’s so much else to her story, things that are more iconic parts of her story, to be told first. I’m thinking we’ll be seeing her mostly in present day. 306 will have her flashbacks, but she probably won’t feature in other ep’s flashbacks as well, so there’s likely no situation in the immediate future where they’d be showing her pregnant. 306 will probably have stuff like her saving Eric from drowning, and how she became human.
As for who plays Liam, I’m really interested in that, because I’m thinking he very likely will be a Colin lookalike.
@red whale and fishhookI love the fact that the person who will play Prince Eric is named Gil. It’s pretty ironic since Prince Eric falls in love with a mermaid and gills are fish organs.
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(Edited to fix quote tag stuff because it was putting MY name where it should have been other people’s.)
I forgot also, the liberties taken with Belle and Beast! Oh-my-Gold, is this a different story! I think therefore, the hoopla about TLM is not going to limit them to a straight retelling of that story, anymore than they are worried about Tink’s portrayal corrupting the Disney Fairies franchise in some way. Ultimately, OUAT is not for kids, and they have free reign for their vision more or less.
I may not like the idea of Ariel and Eric being Hook’s parents, but I can’t say that the only reason to like it is because of a ship. People didn’t like the relatively disconnected way they introduced MAP so at least if they introduced characters as related to a main character, you get where they fit sooner.
It just doesn’t appeal to me though, and I hope that is not the direction they go.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Oh there’s no doubt they’ll take liberties with TLM story in the overall scheme of the show. But considering the timing of 306, airing not long after TLM is re-released on DVD/BluRay, they’re gonna potentially have new viewers who tune in just to see Ariel, so it’s good marketing sense to have her first ep showing iconic stuff from the original movie. “Surprise, she’s preggo with the future Captain Hook,” is likely to alienate any potential new viewers. Get ’em drawn into the show first, and then start messing with the story they know and love. Even leaving potential new viewers out of consideration, regular viewers would still probably prefer to see those iconic moments as the introduction to Once’s version, because we’ve been waiting so bloody long for Ariel to be on the show. Dunno how they could have her interact with the JR6 in present day, without revealing it if there’s some familial connection between Hook and Ariel right off the bat.
While they could do the Ariel and Eric are parents to Hook thing, I don’t think they will. That role of parent/child same age is occupied by Emma and in her case her parents are also major characters/core characters so there is room for growth and development. In Hook’s case, Ariel and Eric are going to be around for S3 but not the significant amount it would take to build this relationship.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"So I'm not dreaming? Wow. Thanks for all the love from around the world. Can't wait to meet my Ariel @JoAnnaLGarcia. #OnceUponATime
— Gil McKinney (@GilMcKinney) September 4, 2013
“My Ariel” *swooning* I already love this guy as Prince Eric! And the name Gil makes me think of “Anne of Green Gables” which features another fiery red-head and her handsome suitor named Gilbert. 🙂
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
That’s what his Gil is short for, his middle name is Gilbert (first name is actually Mark). He does seem rather sweet, judging by that tweet. He’s gonna make me feel guilty for having theorised that Eric could be dead in present day. 😛
You #OnceUponATime fans really know how to make a guy feel welcome. XOXO
— Gil McKinney (@GilMcKinney) September 4, 2013
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
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