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I think “relationships” is a neutral term. “Ships”, though, are like “morals”. If a person likes one, then it’s right and good and unquestionably the way things ought to be, as far as the believer is concerned. It can’t be allowed to change, because it’s already perfect. From the point of view of someone who doesn’t favour a particular ship, it seems like fanaticism.
I think this is what I was trying to convey as far as the difference here. And this is what I believe A&E meant when they said they don’t create “ships.”
They wrote OQ, with its magical true love pixie dust thus telling the audience up front that this ship was going to sail into Forever Land, so that people would support that ship.
And here, I think we are just going to agree to disagree on this. I think there is simply no way of knowing whether or not A&E wrote the magic pixie dust love thing for Regina in order to tell the audience that you must support this “ship” because it’s going to happen and stay, or whether they simply already did the two people meet and fall in love thing many times. Maybe they wanted something different. Something that included magic. And something that made Tink relevant in season 3A. If anything they were writing it in because they knew they wanted Regina to find the one, didn’t want to spend the time introducing us to that special someone for her (but also didn’t want to rush it), so they gave us this magical true love thing. It was different from what they had done. Not saying it was the right thing to do, or that it was done properly, but I think you might be emphasizing the writers’ “ship” motivation more than simply their “plot” motivation.