So while I want to be more positive and Rah Rah show, its just hard to be that way when so many things stand out as just off and no one (outside this thread far as I’ve glimpsed, but I’m not up on the latest threads I admit) really feels safe enough to talk about it without coming off as totally anti-something that others just adore.
This is something I am really struggling with right now. I’m not thrilled with ONCE right now. It’s too different from what it once was and I’ve been critiquing it. But apparently the negativity I’m expressing by critiquing plotlines and characters is getting too much for people or something. And this site (not necessary me, but I’m sure people are blaming me) is getting a rap for being anti-OUAT and it’s really upsetting me because the thing no one understand is that I’m not anti-OUAT. I loved this show so much that to see it go so far south, IMO, is devastating. And so I’m negative because I know what it could be and it’s not living up to all that great potential it had. And it’s not even SF, it’s that’s they are destryoing Rumple and Regina. It’s that they talk about family but kill a helpless father and break up families. It’s that it’s all magic and myth and no heart anymore. But now I have to try and balance all this in order to not make this site I’ve been trying to keep peaceful go to heck in a handbasket.
But issue remains…OUAT doesn’t feel like OUAT anymore to me. It’s like something trying to be ONCE but missing something.