Which Sleeping Beauty are we seeing?

[Snickerdoodle]

So here is my thought — Philip awakens Aurora, but he did not have to fight Malificent to get to her and it was a pitiful wall of thorns he cut through to awaken her. Then she mentions something about the same thing Malficent did to her mother. Don’t have TVO and the episode is not online yet, so… anyone else catch that?

So now my question is, is this the Sleeping Beauty we know or is it Sleeping Beauty’s daughter? I know it is Prince Philip, but how many King Henry’s and George’s are in English history. I know at least eight Henry’s 🙂 Anyone else?

[Slurpeez]

Yes, Aurora said Maleficent first went after her mother and then her, so this must be Sleeping Beauty II.

"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

[fairycutie86]

I seriously did not catch the line about Aurora’s mother and what Maleficent did to her. How did I miss that? When I rewatch I’ll be sure to pay attention to that. That is interesting if this is Sleeping Beauty 2.0 😆

[timberump]

So if this is the first sleeping beauty’s daughter, then why is her name Aurora also? In the fairy tale, sleeping beauty’s name was Aurora. This could just be the writers taking more artistic license with the story, I realize. I have to say, though. I am not very interested in her or Prince Phillip so far. Sorry 🙁

[rcaret7z]

I’d have to agree with the previous post. Also, why is there a spinning wheel next to where she was sleeping??? Makes me think that she is the original Aurora (aka Sleeping Beauty). Wouldn’t be the first time I was wrong and probably not the last!
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[dreaming_mike]

I just sent this into the podcast, but this is what I said in regards to this…

I do think that the Sleeping Beauty storyline with Mulan that occurred during this episode is not the same as the traditional one we are used to from Disney movies, etc. I actually like the idea that this Aurora is the actual Sleeping Beauty’s daughter. The one piece of evidence I have for this goes way back to Season 1, Episode 2. During Regina and Maleficent’s scene, they say…

Maleficent: “Weren’t you about the same age when you were to be married before she (Snow) ruined it all? Yes, you were.”

Regina: “Yes, it was about the same age you were when that Sleeping Beauty got the best of you, my dear Maleficent.”

Based on Regina’s line, it sounds like the traditional Sleeping Beauty story had already happened when Regina obtained the curse.

[faux pax]

Regina: “Yes, it was about the same age you were when that Sleeping Beauty got the best of you, my dear Maleficent.”

So maybe the first Sleeping Beauty had a different name, or maybe she died giveing birth to this one and her father named the child after the mother. It’s not as common to name a daughter after her mother as it to is name a son after his father, but it does happen.

[obisgirl]

I think Aurura is “The Sleeping Beauty.” It would be too confusing if there’s more than one. That was an interesting line from the episode, which makes me think, Maleificent had a vendetta against her whole family. I read an interesting theory on tumblr that Maleificent was in love with Aurora’s father, but he married Aurora’s mom instead, got pregnant with her and that was the reason Maleficient took our her anger on Aurora’s mom and then, Aurora herself.

[nonnie]

I THINK the writers give us mish mashed stories to send us off on tangents so we do not spend all our time figuring out what the writers are up to in their story. By giving us side stories they get to sneak in other hints to the future which we kind of miss till we realize the hints were vital and important…..

VERY SNEAKY!

[sleepless knight]

I think we just may be seeing something much closer to the original Charles Perrault version of The Sleeping Beauty with multiple references from the Disney version sprinkled in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty

Consider this. The Perrault version appears to be the earliest known recording of the story. The Brothers Grimm Little Briar Rose appeared afterwards and ends with the kiss to waken her. Most versions of the story end after the kiss,but Perrault’s went further.

In the Perrault version (and most subsequent versions), the princess slept for 100 years before the Prince arrived to wake her. After their marriage, they had 2 children L’Aurore (Dawn) and Le Jour (Day). It wasn’t until the Tchaikvosky ballet that the name of the title princess was changed to Aurora. Furthermore, in the Perrault version, the princess was originally a brunette. It was Disney’s version that gave her blonde hair.

As far as I can tell from my research into variants of the Sleeping Beauty story, Disney’s is unique in that it is the first version where the prince has to fight for the princess. In most other versions, the prince shows up at the castle after 100 years, the thorns part, and he walks up to her room and wakes her up. Some involve multiple princes dying in the thorns before the 100 years was up.

From what we’ve seen so far, OUAT’s Phillip did not slay Maleficent or possibly even fight her. Furthermore, the references OUAT Aurora makes to her mother have me thinking that this version of Sleeping Beauty is not the Disney version, though the series has chosen to make use of the names Disney gave the Prince and the Lilac Fairy (Maleficent).

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