What was your favorite all time episode of OUAT? (feel free to pick more than one if you really can’t decide between a few)
Skin Deep without a second thought, 2nd place would probably be Manhattan
What was your least favorite all time episode of OUAT? (feel free to pick more than one if you really can’t decide between a few)
Boy this one is hard, I hated Street Rats, Flower Child, Tiny (not as much as I used to but still hated it when I saw it)
What was your favorite and least favorite season of OUAT?
Favorite: Season 1 of course Least Favorite: Season 6A just because of all the horrible Rumbelle crap they wrote.
Who was your favorite and least favorite MAJOR (meaning, regular cast member) character?
Favorite: Rumple Least Favorite: Hook followed closely by post season 4 Emma
Who was your favorite and least favorite MINOR (meaning only made brief appearances, either a single episode or more but never a regular cast member)?
Favorite: Archie. I always loved Archie and thought they could do so much more with his story. He was just an all around good guy.
Least Favorite: Alladin, that whole story arc was horrible and boring.
What do you think OUAT’s biggest success story was? And what was their biggest mistake?
Success Story: Regina. Regina was the number 1 villain from episode 1 on and by the end of the show she was a great hero who preached about not only redemption but hope. The Regina redemption arc was long, difficult, and real and that is what each and every villain should have had to go through to get redeemed. The writers wrote that character perfectly and even when I thought she was a little too judgmental and playing way too much with the “hero club” it was still believable that a person who was a villain and was now considered a hero would go along with their ideas and thoughts even if they were judgmental and one sided.
Biggest Mistake: There were lots of them, but #1 mistake was killing off Bae/Neal. I would have been okay with it if they had done it for a good reason but lets face it they just did not want a love triangle and this was the easiest way to get rid of it. They then compounded the problem with trying to act like he did not exist most of the time and that his death did not effect those around him. Rumple’s quest for power in season 4 and his turn towards darkness would have been much more believable if they connected it to Bae’s death. The struggle of Henry and Rumple’s relationship could have been played out and talked about and that would have made sense. The struggle of Henry to like Hook could have been played out better by just admitting that Henry’s father was Neal and that Henry missed him. I could go on and on about what the writers could have done, but the fact is they took the easiest way out of a mess that they created and then acted like the character never existed except for a brief mention every now and then.
Would you recommend OUAT to someone?
I still would. I loved the show and still love to rewatch the first three seasons back to back and then certain episodes. I would love to rewatch it again with someone who had not seen it and relive all the dynamics.
What is the legacy of OUAT?
I don’t know, I am really not into that kind of stuff. For me personally I think it brought me into fanfic which I love and has carried me into all kinds of other fanfics. I loved this forum and talking about a tv show but I am unsure if I will ever find a show that I will want to talk about as much as I do this one.
Grade the entire series!
Well considering I am still a little obsessed with the show I would have to give it a 90%. I would give season 1-3 a 100% and 4-7 an 80%.