There will be no rationalizing with fans like that… regardless of their ship. Any one who subscribes to the misery loves company rule of life is not going to see reason. Anyone who wishes for others to die because one person did is just nuts. I know families that fly separately just in the event a tragedy happens and the whole family is not wiped out. These crazy people are pretty much saying they want Emma and Henry to go down in flames because Neal did. And as much as I didnt want Neal to die and as sympathetic as I am to a main character and a ship dying I feel like Neal has become St Neal. Really now! No matter Hook’s path to try and obtain some sort of redemption it is never enough, but Neal’s character was devolving in front of our eyes and that is all explained away due to the terrible circumstances he found himself in… And the whole ‘how would you feel if it was Hook?’ I would say that sucked – yet another couple I shipped that sunk at sea. What are you going to do? I’ve been there, done that… hey any one see Good Wife? – I’m not wishing the same for the rest of the cast. There is no SF – A&E never planned it. Neal is dead Hook has issues but is not the devil in disguise. Time to move on its just a shame that all ships seem to have those few crazy fans that then cast a shadow on the rest.
Well said- have a cookie & some rum 😉
Been reading through the last posts, and it’s come to this: Neal’s death is a lesson to us all. I know everyone watches differently, but you really cannot watch a show like Once and fall apart over one person’s death. Generally, I care about all the characters and the big thing I usually look at it, more so than ‘ships and my favorite character is the story. How do all these pieces fit together as a whole? I feel like, if you watch a show for only one character and that character dies (Neal), then yes, I would seriously encourage you to take a break and stop watching. But you know what, I remember back in my Buffy days, stuff happened I didn’t particularly like Buffy and Angel breaking up for real but it didn’t stop my enjoyment of the show. I kept watching because I wanted to see what was going to happen next. But it seriously does not make any sense for fans to continue watching and they’re still miserable, two weeks later. If you’re so miserable, do something proactive about it. Stop watching the show or focus your positive energy elsewhere. I really don’t see the point of forcing yourself to watch if you’re not happy. It just makes the watcher miserable and everyone else groan.
Hands over more cookies &rum for another well said post 🙂