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Poll: What the Writers Do Best

Home › Forums › Once Upon a Time › General discussion and theories › Poll: What the Writers Do Best

  • This topic has 6 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 13 years, 1 month ago by clockwatcher.
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  • May 10, 2012 at 12:10 am #134458
    darcyfarrow
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    Like its sister series, Once is a fabulously written series that draws upon several genres.

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    May 10, 2012 at 12:57 am #146174
    Snickerdoodle
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    What the writers do best is tantalize and tease and make you hope, which they said was their theme for this season.

    May 10, 2012 at 1:50 am #146180
    Josephine
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    I picked Mystery. I thought it looked like an interesting show, but it turned into so much more than I thought it would be. The storytelling is what hooked me, not the shipping or the magic, but the mystery and the writing that is so tight that it’s fantastic. Similarly, it’s the same exact thing that got me hooked on Harry Potter. To people who have never read the series, it’s hard to explain that it’s not really just about a boy wizard, but at its core it’s a story about family, mystery and tight woven storytelling that engages people. JK Rowling mentions things off-handedly in the first novel that might not show up until book 3 and it’s real significance isn’t found out until books 6 or 7. The same thing with OUaT, I get that tightness of storytelling. It engages us and makes us not just watch but think and predict and forces us to utilize higher-level thinking skills like deduction, reasoning and evaluation. Not very many shows do that.

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    May 10, 2012 at 1:58 am #146182
    midnight dreary
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    I’m stuck between romance and mystery. I love what they’ve done with the romances of Belle and Rumpel and Snow and Charming. I love how their romances are always written as epic tales. It’s very sweet. I think I’ll go with romance. 😀

    May 10, 2012 at 2:06 am #146184
    beauty the beast
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    I have a soft spot for Rumpelstiltskin and Belle’s romance. They’re my ultimate couple. I love dark romances and this is the classic example of one. I can’t wait to see where their journey goes in season 2. 😀

    May 12, 2012 at 6:42 pm #146444
    fairycutie86
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    I voted for mystery. Everything else is great too, but I think mystery is where the writers excel.

    May 12, 2012 at 8:00 pm #146449
    clockwatcher
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    I think what they do the best is: think through each and every possibility ever possible for the show and plant little bits of evidence in each episode for crazy people like us to overanalyze and be driven insane until they finally tell us the truth! 😆

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