Well, the show sort of wavers between whether it’s striving for realism or fantasy.
Which is a problem because even shows that are based on the fantastical need to be grounded in something tangibly real.
OUAT seems to have a big question mark whether it’s a show based on fantasy or on realism and sends a lot of conflicting messages.
As of S2 and 3 I agree. S1, though, managed to make the EF real even though it was deeply fantastical while making SB seems fantastical while it was deeply real. Everything lately though is just “magic!”
suppose in that sense, real love is unconditional, otherwise no one would be deserving of love
I don’t believe in unconditional love outside of parent to child. That relationship should always be unconditional. But to other than that…no, love is conditional. I have the right to stop loving you if it turns out that your are, say, a murderous sociopath who skins women and wears said skin as a cloak.
Maybe OUAT is more based on realism than I initially thought, since very often, people who strive to do good like Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. get shot by hateful people.
But that’s a realistic death of good people because of the good they were doing. Those people were constantly in harms way while performing their acts of goodness. They do not die because *magic* or *fate*
Love is not a prize that can be won or earned, it is a gift that has to be given from one person to another.
Sure, but how do you choose to give your love? Because someone has earned your love normally through some sort of action or deed:
Gotten me out of a jam with the cops then told sad story about messed up family life to which I relate? Love.
Been kind to me despite being held prisoner and being forced to clean your castle? Love.
Gave up a ship to get back to this world and help me find my family? Love.
Kept my heart safe from my wicked green half-sister who wants to use it to travel through time? Love.
Saved me from some trolls who felt that you cheated in bargaining? Love.