Yeah, I just have kept hearing about the “new viewers” who “only watch for Frozen” and thereby hadn’t caught up on anything else. At least you can watch the Hook-Rumple stuff and go, “Oh, these guys hate each other,” even if you don’t understand why, but there’s bad blood and that’s clear and they are actual characters. Crying over a random photo of a guy who’s not on the show (and there’s nothing that connects him to the gravestone of several episodes prior) is a bit different, since there’s no identity to the guy-in-the-photo like there is to characters who move around town and interact with each other.
I just think about when we started watching Grey’s – it was a couple of seasons in – and we caught up as we went along. The only real question was, “Who’s Denny?” and figuring all of that out. So maybe I’m projecting. I dunno.
Cause this story needs some mending & a better happy ending...