Reply To: Love and Romance on OUAT: What's the Message?

[Slurpeez]

My issue is that for A and E and ONCE the “happy ending” always always gets wrapped up in finding your true love/soulmate/penguin/whatever else they want to label this as. Which is crap.

It is annoying that happy endings seem to be equated with romance on this show. At the same time, certain characters have not yet, and may never, get their happy ending in the form of romance: (i.e. Tinkerbell, Lancelot, Grumpy, Nova, Blue, Ruby, Dr. Whale, Jefferson, Granny, Anton, King George, the Darlings, the Lost Boys, Archie, Geppetto, Mulan, Elsa, Little John, the father of Hansel and Gretel, etc…). This may be an unpopular opinion in a thread about romance, but I’m inclined to agree with RG that a happy ending does not necessarily have to, or perhaps even shouldn’t, always end in romance. We’ve talked before about Ruby, albeit briefly. For her, perhaps a happy ending won’t include a romance with Dr. Whale, as many speculated about, for the simple reason that the actor who plays him made it seem like he wouldn’t be returning to the show. So, Meghan Ory, who has made cameo appearances in S3, may reprise the role of Ruby only for her happy ending to be about self-acceptance as a lone wolf. For characters like Grumpy and Nova, it is sort of sad if they never got together, and likely never will, since the actress who played her hasn’t been spotted on the show in over two seasons. Yet, at least Grumpy has his fellow dwarves for company, and Nova has her fellow fairies for friendship. Finally, for characters like Jefferson, his happy ending is probably just living happily with his daughter, Grace, since we’ll likely never see Sebastian Stan on the show again.

So, A and E, you have a sugar coated rainbows and unicorns vision of this world. Good for you. Too bad it’s 1oo% pure fantasy fluff and you’ve lost the real.

I couldn’t help but think how much this sounds like what Regina told Snow White at the start of S3.