I am of so many minds over this that I think it needs bullet pointed… PRO –Ruby and Dorothy did have a pretty nice connection. Their walk/talk was a nice moment about how alone they felt WITHOUT it being about their sexuality. CON –But every character on this show feels like an outcast at some point and it’s not like they developed true love with the person standing beside them who also felt like an outcast! CON –The love stories on this show are becoming tragically under developed with each passing season. It takes more than one walk and talk, one bike ride, one flower, one adventure to know that you’re in true love. Remember when this show used to declare that true love was rare and that’s why it must be fought for? PRO –Acceptance by all characters over how Ruby felt without any shock or disgust CON –Mulan keeps using gender neutral terminology when discussing the person it was “too late” for her to be with. PRO –A long and extended TLK for an LGBT ship CON –And now they go off to Forgotten Character Island making this episode feel like it was only to generate buzz, appeal to sensationalism, and appease the LGBT fanbase of OUAT. It’s almost cheap; have an LGBT canon ship but never explore it in the same careful, meaningful, and lengthy way the did for, say, Snowing.
I agree 100% with everyone you just said. It should have been Mulan. It shouldn’t have been so fast, and it shouldn’t just go to forgotten character island. As nice as it was to see how accepting everyone was of it on the show, they screwed this up so much. This is probably the angriest I’ve ever been regarding this show. This does hit home a bit for me, but I don’t think that’s the real reason I’m so outraged by this. Plus Dorothy was just an awful character. She was supposed to be this “warrior” and she literally did nothing except let Scarecrow get his brains taken away, let Toto get caught, almost get taken by flying monkeys and need Red to save her, and then get put under a sleeping curse. Quite the warrior.
And poor Mulan. I feel so bad for her. How many people around her have to find true love before she literally walks off a cliff. Why even bring Mulan back for this crap?