@slurpeez108 wrote:
@Sarah_TN wrote:
I agree it isn’t very nice, but the calls are out there. My personal preference is that we get to keep Colin around on the show for a long, long time. Personally though, I’d rather have a Hook — any Hook — than no Hook.
As for respect: Nobody owes Colin O’Donoghue anything. Nobody owes Once Upon A Time anything. Colin O’Donoghue doesn’t owe his fans anything, except a “thank you”, and he did that at Paleyfest.
I’m just going to respond one more time, because I really think the fans have crossed a metaphorical line. It’s one thing to express your thoughts in an open forum like this to other fans, but it’s another thing eintirely for fans to behave in a rude manner to people who work as hard as the actors and producers. I believe fans do owe the actors and producers basic human decency and respect; these people work really hard to produce great television for us to enjoy. If it weren’t for them, fans wouldn’t even have this show to look forward to each week. Colin O’Donoghue couldn’t help that he broke his leg–an injury which probably even happened while filming. There is no reason to take out any anger or call for his resignation. He is now recovered and back to filming. No one, except the producers, production managers, crew and actors, knows the exact filming schedule. Just because Colin didn’t appear in a particular scene doesn’t mean he isn’t hard at work filming other scenes in a studio somewhere. It’s uncalled for a fan to whine just because he/she didn’t cross paths with him.
Also, neither Colin nor the producers are liable to the whims of the fans; some fans really love Captain Hook and others really don’t. Jane Espenson said in her most recent interview that she gets an equal number of tweets from fans threatening to stop watching the show if Hook and Emma become a couple as much as she receives tweets from fans threatening to stop watching if they don’t! The writers, producers and actors are not here to please every individual fan’s dreams; they are here to tell a great narrative. It is immature and rude to think and behave as if the world revolves around one’s own desires.
If something did happen to Colin, or anybody else on the show (no speculations here, I’m just speaking in generalities), I do hope that if they desire respect, that they will be equally respectful of the hearts they invited themselves into. If anything were to ever happen to anybody on that show (God forbid), I don’t want for the poor little girls who have so much affetion for these people to be left feeling like somebody charmed themselves into their room (their heart), ransacked it, and then told them it’s their job to clean it up.
I happen to really like Colin O’Donoghue as Captain Hook, and I really don’t like it when actors are recast. It is less believable, and I think it’s better that Captain Hook be written out of the plot completely than be recast. Yet, if the producers decided to do just that, I wouldn’t tweet my threats to stop watching. I’m not saying you did this, but there are plenty of teenage fans who do this. In aother recent interview, Jamie Dornan expressed his dismay over how rudely fans had treated Eddy and Adam after Graham’s death; some fans even made fake death-threats to Eddy and Adam. That isn’t just rude and hurtful; it’s deranged!
Eeew. That is deranged.