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The way OUAT mutilated the story of Peter Pan really, really bothered me for the majority of this season. I wasn’t sure if I could get past it. I mean – Peter Pan is supposed to be a good guy. Last season they had set everything up for Neal to be Peter Pan. Bae arrived in London in Kensington Garden. Wendy said the shadow showed up shortly after Bae showed up at their house. She wanted to take care of him like a mom. Etc. It was totally the Peter Pan story. I suppose the only thing that didn’t fit was that Bae never said he never wanted to grow up or be on his own. Quite the opposite. All he has ever wanted was a family.
I’m still tuning in to see what happens… but has it bothered anyone else how much of hack job they did on the Peter Pan story? They definitely took some liberties with other fairy tales – but not to this extent.
See, while it’s true the Peter Pan story got the most radical changes out of all the ones they touched so far, I don’t think they were all that much off-base. This is how Peter Pan’s personality is described in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_pan):
Peter is mainly an exaggerated stereotype of a boastful and careless boy. He is quick to point out how great he is, even when such claims are questionable (such as when he congratulates himself for Wendy’s successful re-attachment of his shadow). In the book and play, as well as both film adaptations, Peter either symbolises or personifies the selfishness of childhood, shown in Barrie’s work through constant forgetfulness and self-centred behaviour.
Peter has a nonchalant, devil-may-care attitude, and is fearlessly cocky when it comes to putting himself in danger. Barrie writes that when Peter thought he was going to die on Marooners’ Rock, he felt scared, yet he felt only one shudder run through him when any other person would have felt scared up until death. With his blithe attitude towards death, he says, “To die will be an awfully big adventure”. He repeats this line as an adult in the film Hook (1991), during the battle with Hook near the film’s climax. He then inverts the phrase at the film’s very end claiming, “To live will be an awfully big adventure”. This line was actually taken from the end of the last scene in the play, when the unseen and unnamed narrator ponders what might have been if Peter had stayed with Wendy, so that his cry might have become, “To live would be an awfully big adventure!”, “but he can never quite get the hang of it”.
In some variations of the story and some spin-offs, Peter can also be quite selfish and arrogant. In the Disney adaptation (1953), Peter appears very judgemental and pompous (for instance, he calls the Lost Boys “blockheads”, and when the Darling children say they should leave for home at once, he misunderstands their wish and angrily assumes they want to grow up). Nonetheless, he has a strong sense of justice and is always quick to assist those in danger.
In the 2003 live-action film, Peter Pan is sensitive about the subject of “growing up”. When confronted by Hook about Wendy’s growing up, marrying, and eventually “shutting the window” on Peter, he becomes very depressed and finally gives up on Wendy.Bolded the relevant excerpts. As you can see, Peter was hardly intended to be the goody two-shoes we’re used to; he embodies the bad aspects of youth just as much as the good ones, and it just happens that Adam and Eddy chose to emphasize those for their take of the character.
[adrotate group="5"]Anyone else hear the Days Of Our Lives theme in their heads? “Like sands through the hourglass” INDEED.
Heh, to be honest I was actually reminded of this, one my favorite games ever :):
Rumple is trapped inside Pandora’s box!!!!!!! (yes I am freaking out)
Does he get out? How does he get out?
Wasn’t that spoiled in the promo?
I distinctly saw Neal opening the box during it.Meanwhile, the Knave is awakened by magic with the help of an unlikely ally and he goes in search of Alice only to find her in terrible danger,
Unlikely ally…not a clue. lol
Didn’t that happen last episode? Anna/Red Queen used her share of magic dust to awake him. 😮
Perhaps the magic that keeps old Malcolm as young Peter Pan is fading and he needs Henry’s heart to stabilize it.
Thanks for the clarification about this new curse.
Not liking the idea, to be honest. This feels too much like a fanfiction idea to me.
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