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Oct. 23rd, 2011 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsTV commentary:
Once Upon a Time- caught the pilot for this- I actually enjoyed it, for the same reasons I enjoyed the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the comic version, not the movie. Well, the first series, when I knew who everyone was. The later ones were just a mess, and full of people who I was all like "Who?!" Maybe if I was British I'd know) I like the idea of taking these classic characters and weaving this modern story around them. (I still need to read Fables!)
The protagonist of the story is Jennifer Morrison (who looks way better as a blond than a brunette, no matter what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clevemire tells you!) destined to save her family and the rest of these storybook characters from a curse placed on them by the evil queen from Snow White. What's interesting is since this is on ABC, and thus associated with Disney, it not only features classic fairy tale characters like Prince Charming, Snow White, Red Riding Hood, Geppetto, Pinocchio, and Rumpelstiltskin, but Disney created characters like Jiminy Cricket and Maleficent.
I definitely want to see more, but as the GMA said in his own review, the pilot was 100% set up, so it'll definitely be interesting to see what a normal ep would be like. I mean, we flashback to the time in fairy tale land before the curse, basically telling the story of how things came to be and all the characters got shunted to the real world. So since that part is over, will there still be flashbacks to fairytale land, pre-curse? To what end? It is written by a few of the Lost guys. Since it looks like this show will have a number of traditional characters, when Emma bumps them, will they pull a Lost and intersperse flashbacks during the ep showing the show's version of those particular character's lives?
Once Upon a Time- caught the pilot for this- I actually enjoyed it, for the same reasons I enjoyed the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the comic version, not the movie. Well, the first series, when I knew who everyone was. The later ones were just a mess, and full of people who I was all like "Who?!" Maybe if I was British I'd know) I like the idea of taking these classic characters and weaving this modern story around them. (I still need to read Fables!)
The protagonist of the story is Jennifer Morrison (who looks way better as a blond than a brunette, no matter what
clevemire tells you!) destined to save her family and the rest of these storybook characters from a curse placed on them by the evil queen from Snow White. What's interesting is since this is on ABC, and thus associated with Disney, it not only features classic fairy tale characters like Prince Charming, Snow White, Red Riding Hood, Geppetto, Pinocchio, and Rumpelstiltskin, but Disney created characters like Jiminy Cricket and Maleficent. I definitely want to see more, but as the GMA said in his own review, the pilot was 100% set up, so it'll definitely be interesting to see what a normal ep would be like. I mean, we flashback to the time in fairy tale land before the curse, basically telling the story of how things came to be and all the characters got shunted to the real world. So since that part is over, will there still be flashbacks to fairytale land, pre-curse? To what end? It is written by a few of the Lost guys. Since it looks like this show will have a number of traditional characters, when Emma bumps them, will they pull a Lost and intersperse flashbacks during the ep showing the show's version of those particular character's lives?
