Once Upon a Timewas a host for many classic stories and characters over its seven-season run, but some of these characters were repeated and re-used throughout the series, such as Rapunzel, Jack, and Hansel and Gretel. During its run, the show also introduced two different variations of Cinderella. The first variation is played by Jessy Schram and appears in four episodes across the first six seasons of the show. She was a more stereotypical version of the princess, with the blue dress, the blonde hair, the big ball and the glass slippers.
The second variation of Cinderella (Dania Ramirez) was written as the new main princessforOnce Upon A Time’sfinal season, which was a soft reboot. She is a lot more hardcore, demonstrating strong skills in fighting and self-defense. In her first scene, she punches Henry (Andrew J. West) in the face and steals his motorcycle. She is willing to do whatever it takes to avenge her father’s death and get revenge on her evil stepmother and stepsister. As well as this, she acts as the main love interest, soon becomingHenry’s wife and the mother to his child inOnce Upon a Time.
Once Upon A Time Season 7 Was A Soft Reboot And Needed A Popular Princess
Snow White Was The Main Princess Of Season 1, So The Reboot Needed A Different Princess
The first season ofOnce Upon a Timeworks well because it is all about the timeless love story between Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas). When the show’s seventh season was revealed to be a soft reboot, it became clear that they would need a popular prince or princess to be the center of the story.Once Upon a Timeeventually decided to choose Cinderella as the new classic main princessthe show would be based around. All of Cinderella’s life is shown, from how she falls in love with Henry, to what happened to her family.
When Lady Tremaine is defeated in episode 11, Cinderella is pushed to the sidelines.
Although she holds some elements of the original story, the character arc comes across as forced. The love story between herself and Henry is rushed, and even the hatred for her evil stepmother feels contrived and unbelievable. When Lady Tremaine (Gabrielle Anwar) is defeated in episode 11, Cinderella is pushed to the sidelines and Gothel (Emma Booth) becomes themain villain ofOnce Upon a Time.Season 1 worked because Snow White was the main princess;season 7 should have kept the same formula with Cinderella.
Once Upon A Time Used The Multiverse To Explain Its Two Cinderellas
There Are Countless Universes In Once Upon A Time With Different Versions Of Each Character
Not much time is given to explaining why there were different variations of these characters. There is one scene in the first episode of the seventh season where a youngerHenry (Jared S. Gilmore) explains that he found lots of different books in the Sorcerer’s mansion with different versions of the characters, such as a French Snow White. He then goes off on his own journey to find his story. This suggests that there is some kind of multiverse with lots of different versions of established characters.
Once Upon A Time’s Best Villain Would’ve Made Their Disney Movie Counterpart So Proud
Cruella De Vil is the best villain on Once Upon a Time as she is pure evil and has no hope of redemption. She was evil through and through.
The fact that season 7 includes the wish realm from the previous season also offers support for Henry’s multiverse explanation, as the wish realm is a universe created by Emma (Jennifer Morrison) when she wishes she wasn’t the Savior. Either way, it is clear that the multiverse exists within theOnce Upon a Timeuniverse, it’s just a shame that not much thought or explanation was put into what it means or why it exists, or why it has specifically created two versions of Cinderella (and other characters).
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Once Upon a Time is an adventure fantasy-drama series created for ABC that features fairy tale characters and their Disney incarnations in a modern setting. When Emma Swan and her son Henry accidentally drive into the town of Storybrooke, they soon discover the inhabitants are those from fairy tales, and they have no knowledge of the modern world inhabited by Emma and Henry. Robbed of their pasts and given new identities by the Evil Queen known as Regina, the hope of the town’s residents lie solely in the hands of Emma, who has stronger connections to the town than she knows.
