obisgirl: What I don’t understand with these Neal fans, is if they’re still miserable watching the show- why are they still watching?
surayya:The fact remains that this show is Adam and Eddy’s brainchild and they can do whatever they want. If you’re not happy, feel free to tune out but don’t bring the rest of the fandom down with your nonsense. Tweeting “stoponceuponahook” to Adam was immature and an example of the very definition of “fan pandering”. A lot of fans are happy with the way the story stands.
Adam and Eddy are only guilty of *pandering* when it isn’t about Neal and his fans’ demands doncha know (wink). The fans who *go there* see themselves as immune to accountability for all the accusations they throw around. (accusations with no or seriously lame support)
Sadly, obisgirl, there is no understanding necessary. They are miserable because they want to be miserable. They did not get their True Love way, and instead of just shaking their heads, rightfully snorting for a few days and finding something else to watch or follow that won’t threaten their tender sensibilities, they relentlessly spew meanness. Because if they do not get what they want, by Gawd no one shall be spared their undignified wrath! As if they are the only fans whose opinions are valid.
None of us have that power. We either accept it, continue the journey, or whine like a putz and look very foolish in the process.
Any of our non-Emma favorites could be extinguished at any time to serve A&E’s vision and story. Death by plot advancement/uselessness is the favored lethal weapon these guys have and they will use it whenever they feel like it. It is what being a creator is allll about. We know it. We live with it. We embrace the joy of the survivors or go somewhere else on Sunday night.
Twitter for all its fun, educational, entertainment value of being up close and somewhat personal with “celebrity”, is, at its worst, a cesspool of crass posters with little class and less character. I don’t know why any of the performers would put up with the crap that passes for meaningful dialogue there. How many letters are there in the reply “P*ss Off, you are blocked*?~ a lot less than 140, and it would be spelled correctly, too.
PoM, I could have quoted the majority of your post! Yeah, Neal was all about Baelfire and Rumple. A compelling story on all counts. The ever-revered Tallahassee episode was all about Emma…and showed, more than anything else, a comparison of the possibilities of her opening up to a Hook relationship with her disastrously tacky beggerman-thief relationship with Neal. Neal came out of that looking like a chump. And it set the stage for WHY Emma had built those hideous walls, not why she and Neal were anything near a bona fide love match. They were a young lust/first love coupling disaster that presented a prime opportunity for *accident* Henry to begin his journey with serious connections to other main characters AND for the writers to introduce the edgy connection between TWO stubborn, emotionally ravaged and passionate characters that they planned to merge into one helluva couple. Hook and Emma.
Had they kept Neal anything like the younger Bae he would have been far more interesting and given Raymond James much more to sink his acting chops into. A much more dramatic and intriguing relationship than Emma/Neal was Hook’s with Bae, even to the hospital scene in 3-15 and the message-by-bird to Hook! They didn’t go that route and Neal approached character roadblock. Giving him the exit they did, though it taxed the brain to see it stated as purely heroic and not selfish, provided a much grander legacy for Neal than if he had continued as a very weak, wobbly side of a delusional triangle.
Being enamored with the concept of first love=true love and “re-found baby makes three” is a very time honored, highly romantic, Hollywood golden-era notion and I can see the appeal. But relentlessly attacking the writers and demanding an invented “happily ever after” at the expense of the reality of what is actually written and filmed is pure, self-indulgent nonsense.
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