Once Upon a Time

Summary


Once Upon a Time is a television series on ABC that is based on fairy tales. The series starts with the fairy tale characters in a town called Storybrooke in Maine in our world (the “real world”) not knowing who they truly are. Time has stood still for these characters for 28 years until Emma Swan comes into town who, unknown to her, is the only child of Snow White and Prince Charming. The first season is about the character’s true stories that are different then we know them in our storybooks. As well as Emma and her son trying to break the curse the Evil Queen casted that brought the characters to our world in the first place.

The story then changes as the characters find each other again with their memories returned in the “real world” and the problems that come with them being in the “real world.” Villains of the fairy tale world both old and new to the series become problems including: the Evil Queen, Rumplestiltskin, Captain Hook, Peter Pan (who is also a villain in this), the Queen of Hearts, Maleficent, the Wicked Witch, Cruella De Vil and so many more. How the creators change the story tales we know and love around to both their true origins through history and something completely knew to make them all have relationships in both the fairy tale world and the “real world” is beautiful.



The new stories of the characters are told in flashbacks to the “Enchanted Forest,” where most of the story tale characters are from as well, as introducing their story and new name(s) while cursed. One of the things the show does extremely well is introducing characters individually, telling their stories and showing how well rounded all of the characters are. This makes the audience understand and remember the characters making them into real people to us including the villains.

This show has strong ties to the Disney version of fairy tales, not the traditional Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales. This is evidenced in the beginning of season four, which introduced Anna and Elsa, the newest Disney princesses. With the massive success of Frozen, the introduction of its characters into the world of Storybrooke seemed like an obvious idea. The arrival of the Frozen characters brought new challenges to the show, and provided new characters to show flashbacks with. Those flashbacks provided ties between new and old characters, and gave everyone common goals to aspire to.

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References:
Wikipedia (2016). Once Upon a Time. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_(TV_series) IMDB (2017). Once Upon a Time. Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843230/?ref_=nv_sr_1