Once Upon A Time In Wonderland Review: Episode 1 "Down The Rabbit Hole"

By Edward Kistis, Adam Horowitz, Zack Estrin, and Jane Espenson ** SPOILERS AHEAD!** If you haven't seen the episode please do so before continuing! I love fairy tales. I love well-done adaptations of fairy tales. I loved the premise and the intentions behind the parent show to this series, Once Upon A Time, which took fairy tale characters and re-invented them as "exiles" in a small town in Maine, called Storybrooke. However, there were certain creative liberties taken and casting choices made by the writers that I found rather disappointing. And so, when the announcement came of a spin-off series that would focus the action on Alice and her epical adventure in Wonderland, and without all that nonsense that is adding characters to make evil out to be more of a product of a cruel mother and a tortured childhood than actually evil—sort of like an antihero, but with more angst than a high school full of girls who give everyone the cold shoulder...