I’m with RG on that one, S1 attracted me because it was real and fantasy blended so well together yeah there was magic, but magic was something that was hard to acquire adding to its allure and it was not a cure all in season 1. And we all new magic had a price until well it didn’t. The last person to pay a price for magic I would say was Neal. Everyone else used magic rather dark or light without any consequences or prices what so ever.
I don’t think I would be so dejected if they hadn’t had such an amazing set up or prop in Season 1 when the overall story swayed me and I had no favorites.
By season 4, Baelfire is dead, most fans (not all) are only in it for their fave or ship or because they just want to finish it out to the end, plot holes are rampant, the cliches are strong, and the campiness feels cheap, and the show is more about Frozen promotion than the original characters. Like I said all that is fine and done, I just wish it was always like this in season 1 so I would not have vested so much in it.
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