I’m not saying I’m fully on board in thinking that it’ll happen, but I certainly wouldn’t mind if it did either. I think I’d cheer for it.
The apoplectic fit that the CS faction would have would be so worth it. 🙂 But aside from that, SQ is hands down the single most complex and fleshed out relationship on the show, now that Neal is gone.
I don’t personally have any stakes in whether SQ stays platonic or is made into a romantic relationship (on screen or off), but at this stage it makes infinitely more sense than CS. That being said, the constant CS fail might also just be bad writing – the show, as they say, must go on, so there must be conflict and obstacles. Based on OUAT’s abysmal mishandling of Rumbelle, its horrid treatment of OQ, and on the flatfooted and lumpy thing that became of Snowing, the writing of actual lasting relationships on this show is a train wreck. As I understand it, CS gathered its most rabid following in the “will they or will they not” stage, but once they became an item, they quickly became even more objectionable. Seeing the show runners’ track record, if SQ becomes canon I do hope it’s at the very end, so that they can ride off into the sunset before OUAT turns it into another shambling relationship zombie (erhm… ghost ship?)