Haha, I feel like so many of the characters on your list are ones that fans “love to hate” as it were. We despise them for their actions (or inaction) and their motives- but that also makes them exciting to talk about.
To be honest, most of the people on the second list just failed to make an impression on me. “Aw you’re sweet. Ugh, you’re awful. Hah, like the leather jacket” was about as far as I got.
I guess Graham is the one that made the most of an impression on me, just because we see the most of him. To be honest, I think I was less sad to see the loss of the character than the loss of the information he’d just obtained. I could tell that he was meant to be a favorite for the audience, but I also felt like I didn’t get the chance to know him- possibly because during his time in Storybrooke he’s under Regina’s thumb so he barely knows himself. I did enjoy seeing him come back for the flashback scenes, however. Those little reveals did make me smile and made the world feel just a little more cohesive as a whole. Yay! Continuity!
I’m looking forward to the comic exploring the relationship between him and Regina. I feel like given a bit more story I could come to like him a lot.
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him."
