I just realised that the thing I wanted to see more of for 2 seasons happened within two episodes and that is all I’m going to get. It’s done and this is ‘my wish granted’. They did the check list thing. They took all the wishes of everyone, made a list and squished it all in the s3 finale. You wanna see more Ruby? Here, you can have more Ruby. You want Rumbelle to be together? Here, now they are together, in fact they got married, bonus points for us! You want to see Emma and Snow become closer as mother and daughter here you have it. At the last moment, because we were busy doing other cool stuff to focus on familial relationships.
Not that this is news, but it only just dawned on me. Truly registered. I’ve decided to watch s2 again from the beginning and I noticed how the strained Emma/Snow relationship started as soon as the original curse broke. It’s been TWO seasons since then. And only now, at the very end of s3 has Emma finally accepted Snow as her mother. WITHOUT her mother btw. Because all it took was a journey by herself to the EF. They worked out nothing. Nothing at all. Never sat down with each other to talk things over. They went from hot to cold or cold to hot in 2 eps! So basically A&E think this is great writing? Drag everything (all the unresolved things) out until the very end so they can spend more time introducing great new characters?
I don’t even need to tell you what other element of their story they did this with *coughCScough*. They did it with everything. Nothing evolves, nothing grows, nothing develops, no one talks. Everything gets put on hold until the very last minute (or happens off screen, hello Belle/father reconciliation). Then BAM season finale in which everything that should have happened during the other 20 episodes of the season happens in 2 hours.
And so this method of theirs, makes me fear a lot of things. There are already unresolved issues abound. The new triangle and Rumple lying to Belle for starters. So going by the way they’ve handled these things in the past, is it safe to say they will only be dealt with at the end of season 4? Lord I hope not.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I shall go and discover other new old things I already sort of knew.
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