I know that everyone wants MRJ’s new show to go well for him, but honestly i don’t think it looks very good. If he wasn’t in it then i wouldn’t even try it. I have a hard time imagining that staying on the air, but who knows maybe it will be better then it looks. The problem being that if it looks bad a lot of people won’t even give it a chance.
Eh. TV viewing is highly subjective and individualized. There’s a niche for everyone, be it fantasy, procedurial, medical, or cerebral. GoS look intriguing enough for me to check out (and even if I don’t continue then I hope Mikey/it does well) even if it’s not the usual thing I go for (fantasy and high art/cerebral)
MRJ could make time for both shows.
Mikey making time is not the issue. ABC and NBC sharing a star is. It doesn’t happen for a reason: it’s a business more than art.
If they really had done that, it was because they needed someone who looked like dylan. I honestly don’t think they have any long term plans for Neal, they made it pretty clear that it’s Hook they want, no matter how it doesn’t make sense and that they had to sacrifice characters for this pairing to make any kind of sense.
Completely disagree. First, they did handpick MRJ. The casting call was for “Jack’ but they used that to throw people off. They brought in MRJ, sat him down next to a pic of Bobby-as-Rumple and said, “that’s your dad.” I think they did have a long term plan and there are portions of what that we see playing out now. A and E aren’t telling a brand new story; in a lot of ways they are telling the oldest story there is: light vs dark/ good vs evil. The show is ultimately about Emma’s hero journey toward selfhood and finding her place in the world with her incredibly large and weird extended family. The main point of SF was that the concept of Tallahassee can be found together even if it’s not in a literal Tallahassee. It was about the lost boy and the lost girl coming home. I have no doubt that they always intended Emma to go dark (Hero Trope!) but they replaced Neal and his role with Hook. I wrote this much clearer three-four months ago after 505. *goes digging* *obnoxiously quotes self*
My friend (@dontstopbelivin) has a great metaphor for OUAT that I think I’d like to share. The story of OUAT was a bridge and it was really Emma’s fairy tale. When we meet the Swan, she is broken hearted and closed off and has her famous walls but over the course of the show, in the end, with villains and magic and plot along the way, she opens up and becomes a fully realized Savior. Emma was always supposed to go dark (heroes journey 101) but on the other side of that darkness were her home and her family. Part of this narrative bridge was Neal and SwanFire. It was part of the structure that held up that bridge. The story of Emma becoming the fully realized Savior and a fully realized Emma Swan was finding a new kind of Tallahassee with Neal and Henry in the town of Storybrooke with the Evil Queen, Snow White, Prince Charming, Rumple, and Belle and everyone else. It was the idea that Tallahassee need not be the actual Floridian city but a feeling–it was the feeling of home. Never forget that this entire series began with Emma being cast out of her home. The ending is clear: Emma Swan comes home at long last and is embraced by and embraces all those she loves with open arms. What happened, along the way, was the the show removed those structural beams and replaced them Styrofoam. The narrative is still there: Emma will still go on her heroes journey and still rise as a fully realized Savior and fully realized Emma Swan but the poetry, the magical poetry of OUAT, is long gone. Instead of Neal, we have another character who doesn’t have the same resonance and poetic appeal that Neal did in terms of Emma’s journey to find her home and now with our current plot of Emma’s battle with the darkness. Who better to know what it means to be lost to the power of the Dark One if not Nealfire Cassidy? This entire show centered around a young boy who watched his father be over taken by the Darkness, flee from that father, and then that father seek out a way to find him again and create a Savior in the process. Hook’s character is periphery to all of that and that’s why the narrative bridge is now so lackluster and full of holes. It can’t hold up under the scrutiny it once did because it has removed its support beams
I meant they don’t have any plans for him now after they killed him off and replaced him with Hook.
I agree that it was very clear that Neal was supposed to be Emma’s main love interest from season 2 (Tallahassee, Manhattan, Second Star to the Right), and killing him off to make way for Hook was only fanservice/abc exec pushing it/ratings (pick whatever answer suits you).
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