Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-3468598-20130906134623/@comment-14800267-20130907024501

EAH has about as many plot holes as an average anime/manga- which suggests it's made in the same way- concept before plotting and ironing, it's a huge no-no in world building, but heaps of stories do it. Rarely unnoticed, but often ignored

I am disgusted and infuriated that the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts are the same. I was furious enough when Tim Burton's most recent lavish and beautiful film of no substance mashed the two (They CALL her the red queen, but she's covered in heart motifs) and this sort of suggests either the creators have a) done absolutely no research what so ever b) Done research in the form of "Alice's adventure's in Wonderland" and ignore the existance of "through the Looking Glass" c) Watched the Tim Burton... movie... and got all the rest of their canon from vague memories and the Disney mutilation

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is based on the moves of a card game (Hearts- it's on most old computers) which is why the Queen of Hearts has so much power. Alice through the looking glass is based on a game of Chess, that's why she jumps from scene to scene with no connecting plots, no rhyme or reason and no logic. She's going from one square to the next, which is why the Queens, the most powerful pieces, have so much power there. It's not obscure knowledge, my brother pointed this out to me what I was a child. If I understood it at seven, they shouldn't have trouble understanding it at whatever age they are.

Clara Lear. I've read the Fuck No EAH OC blog, and though I like their theories, I have one throry to add. I am HOPING there's some sort of literary community where Fairytales go to EAH, Classic Literature to another. Maddie is from "Alice's adventure's in Wonderland" which, maybe because the target audience is children, goes to EAH like other children's literature, but is also perhaps part of the Classic community? If Clara ends up as EAH I'm hoping it's as a transfer from one of the classic schools, kind of like CA Cupid. Perhaps she didn't get along with anyone... Pleeeeease say it's something like this. i studied King Lear. There is no part of it which comes CLOSE to being a fairytale. Or even child friendly. I know they can be adapted, hell, the Lion King is based on Hamlet, but you have to do some pretty serious mutilation to make it work.

Then there's the inconsistancy, the biggest being they all KNOW what's going to happen. If their parents had known, would they have acted they way they did? No. Why do they even have to repeat it anyway? There are girls where there should be boys, royals where there should be peasants, modern technology where there should be medieval, things have already changed. I take the theory that they only have to "act out" the part that's actually in the story its self, so unless they are specifically children and grow up in the story (and some of them actually ARE. So yes, plot hole) then they just have to go through the motions. It's the reason I chose to give Jane a hook hand now. Hook losing his hand came BEFORE the sotry of Peter Pan. He already has it at the time of the tale. I sort of assumed that's how it was to be run.

If they just had a school of Fairytales (and Children's literature, fables and Nursery rhymes) without the Legacy crap, it would save a world of plot holes.

I have no real fears of them making a son or daughter of Hook. Peter Pan has a special eternal copyright to a Children's Hospital in London, royalties still have to be paid to this day. I think EAH is after characters they can get for free, however, if they do pay up and make one, ne, I did it better anyway ;). Jane is my character and only has conceptual ties to EAH. She plays in the universe, but she can exist quite happily on her own.