Leaving the board

😥 😥 We’ll miss you. Hope you don’t stop watching Once.

@TheBee wrote:

Hi, everybody. You’ve seen me post here a lot, but I’ve come to a difficult decision today. I’m leaving the board, and not because of it, but because of the show.

Captain Hook got me watching Once Upon A Time again. I really didn’t care much about it, and then I got interested again after “The Crocodile”.

I thought this was going to be something really great. I was expecting some really good drama, and I was expecting they’d found a good character they can reboot. I was fascinated by what I was watching, but now I’m just sick to my stomach.

They’ve got the same core of people on OUAT which I can appreciate, but it’s not enough. I’m sick and tired of the same old whines about “the main characters”. In the TV Line interview everybody’s talking about, Neal was mentioned in comments a grand total of 41 times. Hook was mentioned over 90!!! Even if all the conversation he sparks isn’t positive, he does get people talking, and I don’t think the show’s producers can see what is staring them right in the face! Hook should be a main character, and attracts interest to the show. In return for that, he is under-utilized and basically just turned into a side-show. He’s barely ever even on screen! I don’t think I can expect any good story telling about him, any drama, or anything. Heck, there’s really not much even being said about him. That bit from Jennifer Morrison’s TV Line interview was just more of the same she’d said last time she talked about Hook. She really didn’t have anything new to say. What I’m trying to say, is that there is nothing for me to get excited about, anymore!!!

For that reason, I’m done. Bye, everybody. I’ll check back from time-to-time. If things improve, I might be back someday. Until the writers can get their act together though, I’m done. I don’t owe Once Upon A Time anything. There are other shows on television, and so I’m not posting anymore, and I’m not watching anymore either.

Adios, Amigos!

We’ll miss you, Bee. Hook’s why I watch the show too, and so I’ve been on the fence, but I’m not ready to leave yet. I want to stick around and see how things play out. I’m an incurable optimist, and I just feel like the writers have something up their sleeves that we can get excited about. Give them the benefit of the doubt. It’s not over, yet.

I hope you’ll change your mind about the show,Bee.

@SpinningGold wrote:

It’s not the Hook show.

I agree. People are entitled to their own opinions and wants etc but it does slightly annoy me how all of a sudden the show isn’t good enough for some people because it isn’t all about Hook. It’s an ensemble show not the Hook and company show. Hook is serving his current purpose well. He is likely to get more screentime when they get on to the Neverland story arc.

Belle is a main character but she isn’t in every episode. Sometimes she only gets a short scene like in Manhattan where she was knocked out by Regina. In The Queen of Hearts, her only scene was in flashback and she was knocked out by Hook. She is getting more screentime now because the story requires her to have more screentime. When the story requires Hook, he’ll have more screentime too.

It’s the question of quality over quantity. Would you prefer Hook to have less screentime but actually serve the story and have a purpose when onscreen or would you prefer him to be in every scene just for the sake of being there?