I’m super excited for this episode (not so excited for what, I am sure, will be the usual anti-CS, Hook is a misogynistic rapist pig backlash – I am so over that I can’t even stand it).
Although I am feeling completely spoiled by CS so far this season (and it’s hardly started!) I have to say that this season I am really enjoying the other story lines a lot as well. Regina/OQ, Rumple/Rumbelle, the Frozen stuff – I’m actually really liking ALL of it.
People can start throwing darts at me but I think it’s because Neal is gone – there, I said it. I’m sure MRJ is a lovely person and a wonderful actor (I think he was dreadfully miscast on OUaT) but I never felt like he fit in with the rest of the cast; nothing was ever convincing to me with him as Neal and the longer the storyline was dragged out the worse it got. Now that he is gone, it’s like everything is back to normal on the show for me. And I’m honestly not saying that because I’m a CS shipper. When Emma and Gold first found Neal there was a brief moment of time where I thought I might like to see Emma and “Bae” together. But then when Neal started interacting with everyone – NOPE. Zero chemistry, not just with Emma but with the entire cast. And because there was no chemistry I could never see Emma and Neal’s relationship developing beyond anything other than a bad teenage romance. Out of kindness to the SF fans I found myself trying to force myself to find scenes where I felt like I could find Neal having chemistry with ANY of the characters on the show. I was sad when he died because I loved “Bae” and I felt bad for who Emma and Rumple were losing and what losing him meant to them. But that was it.
I feel like I have my show back again. Which is funny because all the haters are posting about how they think the show sucks now and how it’s nothing like it was in the beginning. I truly do not understand anyone who hates the show so much but continues to watch or post about it. Or prays to network Gods that it will get cancelled. That is just . . . odd. There have been several shows that I used to watch that I just no longer enjoyed or lost interest in. So I stopped watching them. But I didn’t send hate mail to the producers and didn’t organize prayer circles hoping for cancellation and I didn’t waste HOURS, DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS of my life discussing and posting about how much I hate the show now. And I don’t understand the argument that people make saying that they are “too invested” in the show and the friends they have made via the show to stop watching or stop posting about it. I’m really happy if they have made friends from watching the show – go find another show you all LIKE and post happy thoughts about that one on that show’s board together!!! Heaven help me if I am ever so “invested” in something that I absolutely despise but cannot leave. And these people think Emma has an unhealthy relationship with Hook???? They are spending hours of their life posting, blogging, tweeting, and chatting about a show that they can’t stand and, in some cases, no longer watch!!! THAT seems entirely unhealthy to me.
I find myself spending more time looking at pictures and stuff on tumblr these days because I don’t have to deal with any of the “weirdness” there. It seems like this site has been taken over by people who hate the show and are hoping it will get cancelled. Which it strange because I thought it was supposed to be a site for people who enjoy the show. It isn’t even just anti-CS anymore. It’s like if you are positive about the show in any way you are the enemy. I feel like we lost so many fun people here who used to have such great and insightful posts. Not just CS shippers. It feels like all of the threads are MUCH sparser than they used to be. I think people who weren’t die hard SF shippers got tired of all the negativity and fled.
Is it like this on other OUaT boards? This is the only board I post on. I always hear about how there is a lot of CS and Hook hate out there but have other OUaT boards also lost followers because of all their negativity? Does anyone have other boards they go to or know where some of our friends have fled to? It ticks me off that people have been successful in driving people away and I don’t want to leave but I miss all of our CS shipmates!!
Sorry for the downer post. We just moved to Florida and I’m still trying to make friends. I was looking forward to OUaT starting back up because I feel like I’ve always had friends here to chat with and that would change even when I move, but everyone stays so quiet or is gone now.