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Ship Ahoy

3/9/2013

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By Chris Fitzner

These days, what is a fandom without at least one ship?  In Once Upon A Time many of us are familiar with the terms Snowing, Swan Queen and Rumbelle.  But where did 'shipping' begin and for that matter, what the heck is a ship?

For those of you envisioning a multi-sailed tall ship bobbing in a beautiful blue harbour, I hate to break it to you but that is not the droid you are looking for.  According to Wikipedia, so you know it must be true, in fandom, 'ship' is a word derived from 'relationship' and the belief that two characters, real or not, will be in a romantic relationship.  In recent pop culture, Twilight comes to mind with the rabid fans on both Teams Edward and Jacob.  It became mainstream enough for official merchandise and features in entertainment news.  But that's not where it started.

The act of 'shipping' pre-dates the term and is thought to have begun in the 1990s with the television hit The X-files.  The ship of agents Scully and Mulder was as hot as anything I could compare it to now.  Rolling Stone magazine capped it off, in my mind, in 1995 with the couple featured on the cover, lying in each other's embrace with only the bed linens for company.
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Whooo Are You? - Looking at the Characters in the Original Wonderland Books

2/9/2013

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By Amy Hood
  As Once Upon A Time ventures into Wonderland, we thought it would be great to give some background to the fans and provide some information on the original characters in this tale. Many fans are familiar with the animated Disney version and Tim Burton’s most recent movie. Neither introduced the full range of characters Lewis Carroll created in his two books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. The stories were originally written for the daughter of one of Carroll’s colleagues. The little girl’s name was Alice. There are so many characters in the books that it would take a small novel to catalog them all. This is just a snippet of some that might become major players in the new Once Upon A Time in Wonderland. 
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Alice is a young, creative dreamer with a strong curious streak. She originally finds Wonderland after falling down a rabbit hole. In the second of Lewis Carroll’s tales, she is on a quest to make it to the final square of the chess board, where she will become a queen. In the beginning of her story, Alice wishes for a world of nonsense, but finds it is not the carefree place she imagined.


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