It’s like if you’ve been in a relationship with someone for 3 years, and suddenly things start to go wrong, and you have a foreboding sense that it’s gonna be the end, even though that’s not something you want to happen. This isn’t just about being pissed over a fave character dying, it’s the realisation that the entire show isn’t about what you thought it was about, that you’ve been duped, and you feel like a fool for having believed in it. THAT is why this is affecting so many people so deeply and drastically. If the rest of the fandom can’t understand that, then I guess they’ve been watching a different show to the one I have been.
YES. EVERYTHING YOU WROTE. I’m not being a cry baby that my favorite character was killed off. I’m mourning the loss of what I thought this show was really about. HOPE. Yet, Neal became the sacrificial lamb, but whose death was utterly pointless, because Snow and David couldn’t see the forest through the trees. Because Neal’s fundamental belief that magic is dangerous and always comes with a price was tossed out the window when he KNOWINGLY chose dark magic even when HE KNEW it’s what the Wicked Witch wanted. This is a show in which protagonists are either blind fools or are rebranded as “villains” and villains get rebranded as “misunderstood” souls who are cunning and clever at getting what they want. While I love a good redemption story, I’ll be had if I’m to stand by and watch a good man, one who has suffered all his life, die an undeserving and gratuitous death. There is enough horror in the real world as it is that I don’t want to watch it in a show about fairytales.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy