@Oncewatcher wrote:
Recently, I read an article entitled: “Once Upon a Time, the series where hunks go to die”. Sadly, I have to admit, it has a point. OUAT is starting to become a deserving object of mockery. After so many characters dying over, over, and over again, and a story line which is way too much like a soap opera, I have come to the conclusion that the writers do not have an imagination capable of preventing Once’s inevitable cancellation.
The running question has become: “Who will be the next character to die”?
As a viewer, I see a pattern of destructive behavior here, and it has me concerned for OUAT’s future. I’ll be surprised if it survives season 3 because if they kill off Hook, I think they’re going to make a lot of people mad. This show was great, and carried good potential. It still does, and will if changes are made, and if it is handled by people whose purposes are aligned to the show’s success, and do not take their viewers for granted.
Harsh words! It sounds like you’re already writing it of as a failure.
I strongly disagree. First of all if you base it on too many characters dying on the show I would like too ask. Who is the too many ?? Of regulars/main characters I only recall Henry the father, Daniel and Graham… And those deaths all had important meaning too them. So I don’t think the writers are on eny kind of killing spree. I don’t believe they would kill a character just because they like it. If Hook dies, it will have a meaning behind it.
I will say, it can be a little frightening sometimes, that they perhabs bring in too many characters for us too get invested in them all. It would be better if they just focus on the ones they’ve already got in the story.