Today it dawned on me, as I rolled everyone’s reactions to 317 around in my brain, that if this really is all as it appears – if 315-317 is as a result of ABC mandating CS – then I actually have a huge amount of empathy for A&E. How much must it suck to spend ten years planning something, to lay it out carefully, to play it out for 2.5 years, then to be told if you want to keep your job you have to destroy it all?
Hm.
Good point. Though Adam has always maintained that he and Eddy are going to tell their story and their story alone….but really. Would they come out and say “ABC fiddled with it”
Seriously. This is the poem of SF. It was beautiful, and then ended up ridiculous. Ridiculous! *WHAT HAPPENED?!* Do you accidentally end a poem that way? Of course you don’t! Surely, these writers can see that this is what they have done to their poetic story of the savior of the curse, falling for the reason of the curse, beginning on the road to forgiveness… turning to the reason meeting his demise and her turning to the pirate who destroyed his family? Surely, surely they do not intend for this to be the story the show is telling. I just… they can’t. They can’t intend that.
I like the way you ended the poem. Nice way to illustrate your point
There is also the interesting point that in 312, the dreamcatcher in the apartment had a broken portion. The weave was broken, then; understanding the WoT balefire/dreamcatcher bit makes the oddness of the broken dreamcatcher make sense in the sense that it is a tie-in. I don’t know what of it, yet, but it is there. There is also the dreamcatcher imagery in Emma’s nursery; the mobile, which we have seen a million time, is seen for the first time from above in Charming’s nightmare. As the room madly spins, we see the mobile from above, and realize it is a dreamcatcher pattern – and I realized as I rewatched it *the whole entire nursery* is done in dreamcatcher patterns. Incidentally we notice this in a nightmare – the dreamcatcher is flypaper for nightmares – but we have seen in 312 that the dreamcatcher has broken threads. So we have now tied the dreamcatcher – an unarguably SF symbol – into the very fiber of Emma’s nursery. Yet, it is torn, so in comes her greatest nightmare. There’s something there, in fact, I think there’s a lot there, but I can’t get myself to a place where I can unpack it – and perhaps it’s because we need to yet see how 3B plays out to make it make sense. There’s just a lot to that, and it has been almost wholly ignored.
YES. Which is why it will take a lot to convince me that something didn’t abruptly change around 3×11.
would like to posture that it’s improbable A&E just forgot their own story overnight. It is not impossible – perhaps they did, and of course there is the significant possibility ABC has trashed the whole thing – but I am coming around to the idea that it is far more likely they are just taking a way roundabout way to tell their own story.
Well argued. For me, it’s a mix of ABC/ Social media pressure/ business.
Pssst, it’s page 1111. Make a wish!
*makes wish*