Neal death just hit to close to home for me. This show was outlet for me and I don’t wished to seek an outlet for my outlet
Yeah I really hate this whole “real world” argument. Yes, people die in real life everyday. Good people don’t always get happy endings.
But you know what—that real world argument should work for EVERYONE on the show then. It should mean that in the real world you wouldn’t trust a perfect creepy stranger to be your midwife. It means you wouldn’t forgive a woman who cursed your entire family after trying to kill you a thousand times over. It means that even if you are a snarky pirate and it’s “in character”, it doesn’t excuse that woeful attempt at an apology (don’t even get me started on that apology)–find me any domestic abuse victim who would have accepted THAT as an apology and the fact that the ONCEABC Twitter account made light of it–violence against women–ooooooh. Yeah. THAT’s real world, alright.
If we’re suddenly going to apply real world logic to this show then we’ve lost the essential core–myth, magic, fairy tales, hope, family, redemption, happy endings.