but for an hour a week, I do sit in front of the tv and have a fun ride for an hour while I’m watching.
You say this a lot and respect it. But it’s easy to sit back and enjoy the ride when everything is coming up roses in terms of your desires. I don’t mean that disrespectfully and I’m not trying to negate what the show has put into canon. but when you keep hoping for X and Y happens instead (be it character development, shipping, interactions, LGBT representation, screen time) it’s very hard to have a mentality of “just enjoy the ride” But when you are hoping for X and X happens (again, you can make X anything here) then it’s very easy to enjoy the ride.
Thank you. And I understand and agree I’m pretty spoiled when it comes to the show. But I don’t consider myself spoiled because X & X (which I’ll infer means my ship in this instance 😉 ) happened. Because I get why people ship SF. And that’s not an attempt to placate others on the forum, I genuinely get it. Because – and again, I know I’m lucky – I like Emma, Hook and Neal individually and think they all have strengths and weaknesses. (I’m admittedly a little shakier when it comes to SQ. I would LOVE a LGBT storyline, I just don’t get that particular pairing)
But don’t get me wrong, everything has not come up roses for me (less specifically with Emma than others). I’m still extremely upset with some major plot points, especially in 3B. The way they handled the Rumple/Belle/Neal storyline, both before and including Neal’s death, deserved way more attention and time than it got. Emma/Neal/Henry should have had more time to figure out how they were going to be in each others’ lives – I think there was no question that they were going to be heavily involved in each others’ lives, in some way/shape/form. And if the show wasn’t so broad and the ensemble so incredibly large, I probably wouldn’t be able to handle the plotholes and screw ups made in OUAT as well as I do. I certainly don’t begrudge others for being upset by the things they are upset about. I’m just saying that, for me, there is enough going on that I still enjoy sitting down every Sunday, watching the show, and then looking back to compare and analyze.