But as easy as it is to admire Alice for her determination, and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland for turning the rescue romance on its head, the fact still remains that Alice's introduction to the plot has been done quite a lot already, while Emma's introduction was a new variation on the reluctant hero theme. She would likely still have been spending her birthdays alone if her son Henry hadn't run away from home and crossed state lines just to drag her to Storybrooke. Not that Emma Swan from Once Upon a Time was any better. She was about to let some doctor mess around with her memories, which, in Victorian times, means a lobotomy was in her future. I understand that she was grieving a love lost, but come on. What propelled her to finally do it? Finding out that her true love, Cyrus, is alive and in danger. The pilot begins with Alice in an insane asylum and by the end of it she has proven that she was easily able to break out of it at any time. Once Upon a Time in Wonderland made true love the entire focus on the premise. Once Upon a Time has a lot of true love couples, including Snow White and Prince Charming as the couple that kicked off the whole plot, but, shockingly enough, love is not the focus of this fairy tale. True love can break any curse, overcome any obstacle, and even give you super powers if you're the product of it. One of the best and worst things about Once Upon a Time is its emphasis on true love. And, best of all, there was absolutely no love triangles to be found. It featured a decidedly less passive version of a beloved storybook character, in true Once style, and the damsel in distress on this show was none other than her prince charming, rather than the other way around.
How did a show with such promise fail to resonate with audiences? It had everything that Once Upon a Time had and lacked everything that made Once Upon a Time convoluted and occasionally hard to follow. It premiered to low ratings, aired to low ratings, and has been canceled due to low ratings despite a highly publicized guest appearance by Barbara Hershey in Thursday night's episode. It was obvious from the get-go that Once Upon a Time in Wonderland was never going to do as well as its parent series. There's no such thing as one season without a cancellation notice.
The miniseries was advertised as a miniseries before the first episode even aired, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't the hope of doing more than just one season. Once Upon a Time in Wonderland has been canceled after only 13 episodes.
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