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Warning: If you do not want to know “Once Upon a Time” season 2 spoilers, then stop reading.
Hopefully anyone avoiding spoilers didn’t even get as far as reading the thread title in the list of Active Topics. 😕
[adrotate group="5"]Oh I don’t expect that we’d ever actually see the characters from stories such as P&P on the show, incorporated into the Once storyline at all. Just saying, this could be the type of world that Bae landed in. I need an explanation for why he appears to be in turn of the century London when he said he didn’t come to our world first, and this FictionalLondon in FictionalEngland in FictionalEarth populated by FictionalCharacters concept makes me feel better about the whole mess.
Watch us all be wrong and she won’t be either Ariel or Tink, she’ll be someone else we haven’t even considered. 😆
@RumplesGirl wrote:
But if Emma suddenly runs into Lizzie Bennett I’m not sure how receptive I’ll be just because it’s not sci-fi/fantasy genre.
But Lizzie Bennett is still a character in a story. I’m sort of imagining this FictionalWorld as a relatively close copy of our own entire world, it’s just that the people who populate it are characters in well known stories, instead of just the regular people who populate our world. If there’s a whole separate world of characters from fairytales, and another whole separate world of characters from sci-fi stories, then why not also another whole separate world of characters from literary greats? Not saying that they’ll explore those stories on the show, just trying to establish a concept for a separate world that could resemble ours very closely, and still not make Bae a liar about not having come to our world first.
What I’m hoping they do is that this really is FictionalLondon and it exists within a whole FictionalEngland where all the characters from great works of non-fairytale fiction live. So maybe Bae spent some time living with Oliver Twist on the streets. And maybe the Banks family and their nanny Mary Poppins live down the street from the Darlings. And out in the countryside, Elizabeth Bennett is falling for Mr Darcy. And so on and so forth.
@KFChimera wrote:
If Bae went to a different land first, he might have only stayed a little while there, for all we know is 6 months after something (the portal, the other land?) he was in London.
I reckon the 6 months will be 6 months after he fell out of the portal in WhateverLondon. The 8 min preview has all the opening credits on it, so that must come right after the title card. I imagine the “previously on” will end with the scene of him falling down the beanhole. Then there’s a shot in the promo of him falling flat on his front and it’s outdoors somewhere, and from memory the ET clip had another half a second shot of him getting up too. I imagine him looking around all, “Where am I?!” and the camera will pan out until we see a sign saying “Kensington Gardens” (in keeping with the Pan theme). Then the title card. Then the ep starts with “6 months later” and we see that he’s been living rough on the streets and is starving.
@RumplesGirl wrote:
While I personally see Lanie as more a Tinkerbell (she looks very delicate and tiny)
Agreed. I can totally picture her as a cheeky little fairy, causing mischief, then peering up with those big round eyes and batting her lashes to get out of trouble.
@slurpeez108 wrote:
She’s got the right color hair, which would satisfy a lot of Disney “purists” who insist on Ariel being a red head.
I’ll be very surprised if Once’s Ariel isn’t a redhead. But natural gingery red isn’t red enough for Ariel. She should have red that looks like a shot of flame as she darts through the depths. And that’s what wigs are for. 😉
And Once doesn’t have to show Ariel getting married; it could just be a sweet teen romance.
Ah, but dark, doomed, adult romance makes for more compelling TV. They’ve been taking the show to a darker place recently, so a fluffy, innocent, teen romance would seem a bit out of place. It wouldn’t leave an impact on the adult audience, and would be a bit of a waste of such an iconic character IMO.
@KFChimera wrote:
The Disney version ends happily, but the original tale is more tragic.
It straight up sucked to be the mermaid in Anderson’s version. Feeling like she was being run through with a sword when she transformed, feeling as though blades were slicing her feet open with every step, and then her prince marries someone else, which causes her to die because she failed in her task. Obviously they’ll give her her happy ending on Once, but I do hope they also have a bit of a darker edge to her overall story, in keeping with Anderson’s version.
@Demileto wrote:
To be fair, one’s bound to lose a few details when attempting to cram 150-200 years of your life in a single line that hopes to explain satisfactorially enough to someone how you knew another. 🙂
But they could have easily had him say, “It’s a long story. Short version is this world isn’t the only one I stopped in when I left home,” instead of, “It’s a long story. Short version is this world wasn’t my first stop when I left home.” Only a couple of words different, but it alters the meaning. If they meant the former, they bloody well shoulda used the former. 😛
Original credit for the link goes to Demileto who posted it in another spoiler thread. 🙂
The hint about Ariel has me excited! Confirmation that she's coming!
And the fact that it's Hook of all people who mentions mermaids makes me excited too!
@Swanning-Off wrote:
Massive props if they get Grumpy to say “‘ello poppet” at any stage while on the Jolly Roger.
For real, they get ALL the cool points if they slip that line into the script at some point. 😉
