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Nicole seems white with a slightly darker skin tone (kind of like Lana – which is what they were going for at that time since Lily was supposed to be a “basically young Regina”).
Saying Lily was supposed to be “basically young Regina” doesn’t help your case since Lana Parrilla is a biracial Latina and the show purposely cast the actors playing Henry Sr. as Latino because of Parrilla’s Latina heritage, canonizing Regina as a biracial character.
But it doesn’t make sense when Maleficent is clearly not latina.
Sure it does if Lily’s father is Latino (or whatever FTL’s POC equivalent is, since certain terms like Latin@/Asian/African-American/etc wouldn’t be the same there). I don’t understand why they had to whitewash Munoz’s character instead of just doing the same thing they did for Parrilla’s character and let a Latina actress play her as an adult just as the original version of the character was played as.
[adrotate group="5"]Doubt it’ll happen, but I’d love if instead of Ariel keeping legs, Eric eventually dons a fin in order to stay with Ariel in the sea.
Maybe he wish exactly that what he said: I wish to change the rules of magic. or simply to be given the power to resurect dead people himself. I mean Cyruy can’t do that but maybe he can give other people the power to be the exception of the rules.
I was thinking this as well. He’s got some loop hole he thinks will work to change the rules of magic, but, given “the bigger the wish, the bigger the consequence” emphasis, it will probably backfire on him. (Trap him as genie and somehow freeing Cyrus to be with Alice?)
I”m not expecting to see the character again because she really felt like a one-off, and they are doing only one season (if it survives).
She felt minor, but not a one-off to me. I can see her popping up again because of the emphasis they put on the Knave/Silver (romantic) history.
I only just watched 1×03 tonight (I’m so behind on all my shows!) and I came up with exactly the same theory on the Anastasia/Red Queen/Cinderella’s step-sister theory due to the name, the Ashley cameo, and the fact that the 1997 movie was 20th Century Fox not Disney. Plus:
- In the Disney movies, Drizella’s iconic dress color is green while Anastasia’s is, yup, pink! Of course Anastasia/Red Queen’s dress is much lighter than the one in the Disney movies, but I think the point still stands. (And the show is aware of the pink/green dresses, as show in the screencap posted up thread.)
- In the Disney Cinderella sequels, Anastasia (not Drizella) is the one who gets the redemption arc through a love story with the baker. Since the show incorporates a lot of Disney nods, this could be one of them.
- In the Grimms’ version of Cinderella, the step-sisters cut off their own toes to get their feet to fit inside the glass slipper because they are that hungry for power and prestige. It wouldn’t be an unreasonable take to have that translate to Anastasia cutting off ties with her true love for the same reason.
Of course there are some things that stand in the way. Anastasia doesn’t look a thing like the Disney version. However, they have diverted from the Disney depictions before. Namely with Cinderella’s original Fairy Godmother, Maleficent, and with Aurora (though in the case of the latter, she’s also the daughter of the Original Sleeping Beauty, so I guess if/when they ever introduce her mother, she could look like the blonde Disney Aurora). Also, in “The Price of Gold,” in the screencap I mentioned earlier where we see the step-sisters from behind, both have long, dark hair. But as someone else said, even in a world without modern hair dye, magic can always work instead. (Cinderella, after all, got her own makeover.) Or, she could’ve been wearing a wig. And, the step-sisters line in TPOG (about how she doesn’t talk to them) implies that both step-sisters are in Storybrooke, but I suppose that could be twisted (she doesn’t have contact with any of her step-family, even though one isn’t local) if you really wanted to. (Also, “The Price of Gold” was the fourth episode of the first season. They might not have even been considering a spinoff at the time they filmed that scene/wrote that line, so it could also be a continuity error or retcon.)
It just seems odd to me that with their obvious knowledge of and nods to the Disney movies, they’d pick the name “Anastasia” for a character that had nothing to do with Cinderella.
