I think it would be interesting to look at the different types of friendships that have been shown on Once and discuss whether both participants are actually on an equal and mutual standing with each other or does one participant gain more out of the friendship than the other?
I definitely want to cover friendship here as well. Because while I’m more okay with the message of romantic love given on ONCE (the many facets of it and its intricacies, given that it’s a TV show) the way friendship love on this show is shown is really bothering me lately, in that…there is none.
As S3 progressed I actually started to feel this way about them as well, so to a large extent I agree that Snowing often has come off as obsessive or at the very least, very needy… I think Snow more than Charming in most cases & it got quite annoying- although being separated & living a lonely cursed life for 28yrs could make almost anyone rather needy I guess :/
I can honestly say that how people feel about Snowing, as mentioned in this thread, is delightfully surprising. I actually expected to get some criticism for that.
Given that we’re all rather annoyed with them, especially after S3B, what does that say about how we–the people in the real world–view the idea of perfect true love? Are we all cynically bitter? Is that the message of ONCE’s true love—to open ourselves up to the possibility that perfect true love might really exist?
I’d also like to add that S1 Snowing in a weird way, promoted the idea of ‘cheating on spouses as being acceptable if you truly feel drawn to someone else’. I mean how many people decided they no longer wanted Snowing together when Charming cheated on his ‘wife’? Most of us pretty much thought ‘they’re cursed, so we’ll let it slide’.
Lol…yeah. Adam and Eddy can harp on “we’re a family show” as much as they want but…it kinda falls on deaf ears when you examine the body of work.
Dont hate me for it, but the Twilight saga books are a guilty pleasure of mine- I LOVE Alice, Jasper & Carlisle *hangs head in shame* lol
Judgement 😉