I agree this is fun. 😀
1. The character you first fell in love with…
Definitely Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold because of Robert Carlyle. I’ve been a big fan of his since the 90s, and I always expected to him to be a bigger star. I’m very happy that he’s sort of having a career renaissance with Once Upon a Time, so not only does he get a juicy role to showcase his talents but more people will know who he actually is.
2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now…
I would say probably Henry. At first, I was a little worried that he might be a little too precocious, but by the end of the season, I realized that he’s truly the heart of the show in many ways, and that if they actually killed him off in the finale, which I do they weren’t going to do, but if they did, the show wouldn’t be the same show.
3. The character everyone else loves that you don’t…
I have to agree with the majority so far. I don’t hate Graham, but until his final episode, I thought Jamie Dornan was very pretty to look at but very wooden too. So I don’t really miss his character although I miss the eye candy.
4. The character you love, but everyone else hates…
Definitely Emma and Henry. They don’t get much if any hate here, but it seems like there’s nothing but hate for them elsewhere. Prince Charming would probably be third just because everyone seems to hate David, for good reason, but then that spreads over into hating Prince Charming too.
Oh, I guess this would be mostly in fan fiction, but Maurice. I understand that it’s just fan fiction, but it seems like he’s always written as the worst possible father in the world, when I actually think on the show, he was shown to be a pretty good and loving parent.
5. The character you used to love, but don’t any longer…
I can’t really say because so far I haven’t fallen out of love with anyone that I love yet.
6. The character you would totallly smooch…
Mmm, this show has so much eye candy, but I guess I’ll go with Rumple/Mr. Gold, but only when he’s not all Dark One looking.
7. The character you’d want to be like…
Snow White. She’s not as clueless, usually, as they sometimes made Emma. Plus, she’s a great combination of being badass but totally forgiving of her enemies too.
8. The character you’d like to slap…
If she couldn’t retaliate against me, of course, I’d have to answer Regina. Then, I’d slap Sydney for being Regina’s lap dog. I’d slap Cora too, but I’m not sure if she’s still alive or not to slap. (Well that, and I’m actually more afraid of Cora at this point than Regina.) I sort of want to slap the first Henry too for indulging his daughter so much, but I’m not sure how much abuse that he occurred at Cora’s hands either so for now he gets a pass. Ooh, I guess I’ll have to add Jefferson too because he annoys me because he knows how Regina is, yet he still agrees to works for her. I get the feeling that if she offered him another deal, he would take it again while also trying to work with Rumple now, then get all pouty again when they both screwed him over.
Then, I’d actually slap Rumple for Bae because Rumple used his magic to destroy their world to bring everyone to this world just so that he could be reunited with his son, which is what Bae would absolutely not have wanted his father to do.
Of course, I’d have to slap The Blue Fairy for being a liar or at least being a very good with holder of the truth, and then I guess August because he didn’t come back because of Gepetto, Emma, or the other townspeople, but only because he was about to be turned back into wood.
9. A pairing that you love…
For the main pairings, I love Rumbelle and Snowing equally. I don’t get why it seems like certain shippers have to hate the other ship, not here, but again it seems to happen a lot at other places for some reason. I think both pairings plus whomever they pair Emma up will all get equal time on the show, so I don’t see the need for fans of either pairing to get nasty with each other.
For the secondary pairings, I love Abigail/Frederick and like Grumpy/Nova.
10. A pairing that you despise…
Swan Queen would definitely be the ship that I dislike the most. I get why people ship it in theory, but I think for Emma and Regina, it’s not really a love-hate relationship because Regina really does hate Emma and while Emma may not downright hate Regina, the way Regina hates her, there’s no way they could possibly get over what’s occurred for any time of romantic relationship. Even in fan fiction, it still wouldn’t work for me, because it would be basically retconning the whole show and their characters.
The other ship right now would be Mad Swan. Again, I get why it’s popular, and I don’t want to offend anyone that likes it, but I’m just not a fan because I think there’s just too much there for them to get past right now. This probably makes me a hypocrite because if Bae turns out to be Henry’s father, then I’ll expect Emma and Bae to get past their issues to be involved. I guess for me it’s different because they already have a history together and because right now I think they have a lot in common to make a relationship work. Plus, I think that Grace’s mom is still alive, and that Jefferson, mom (Alice maybe?), and Grace will all be reunited eventually on the show, so I’d just rather skip Mad Swan on the show and just get to Jefferson reuniting with his family again.