Oh so many pretty things to brighten up this sleep deprived girl’s week!! Thanks so much guys! 😀
Random: While I was on vacation I got to talk briefly about OUAT to three friends of mine who are non online fandom participating fans of the show. We didn’t talk too many specifics because we talked more about the figure skating (I was in Boston for the US Figure Skating championships) but the one girl was amused by all the Neal stuff that’s been showing up on my FB and Twitter feeds and since none of them mentioned anything about being annoyed by it, I’m thinking they might be closet SwanFire fans or at least, fans who don’t hate Neal. Nothing concrete and it’s just my hunch but none of them made fun of me or told me that I was dreaming about my hopes for them so I’ll take anything I can infer or imagine from those conversations, LOL 😆
I agree that it is a very lonely place in the OUAT fandom for a SwanFire fan. You get ridiculed, told you’re stupid, hopeless, and a big loser, made fun of for “thinking that there’s still anything there”, the media doesn’t seem to think anyone exists other than the pirate with the drinking problem, and you can’t have a conversation about anything else on the show without someone bringing up the other ship. It’s really sad to me because I love talking about all aspects of this show with other fans but because I ship something different than the majority of the online folks, I can’t even talk to them anymore. This board has been a saving grace for me to still have somewhere to go because I have my SwanFire Haven here to gush and hope with you guys but I can also still go into other areas of the board and talk about the other parts of the show. This is really one of the most sane OUAT places out there and while I know it’s had its moments (sorry you had one of those recently RG!), this really is a wonderful place and I am so grateful to be here and thankful that I found it. *passes out cookies* 🙂
While I’m rambling (and avoiding all the work that’s still piled up in my work email inbox, LOL) there are a few things that I’m hoping get resolved or at least teased about a resolution in this second half of the season. Here’s my little checklist of things that haven’t been done yet in season three and that I hope get resolved somehow, remembering that nothing is a coincidence on this show.
There is a reason that:
*Emma still doesn’t know the whole story about Milah.
*Emma now has memories that should make her understand why Neal made the decision he did when he left her to be the savior all those years ago.
*Emma and Neal haven’t gotten to really talk about anything yet.
*Hook’s bad past hasn’t come up again aside from Regina’s awesome comment about how she hasn’t forgotten about his dirty work with GOAT (thank goodness someone remembers…).
*Emma & Neal have shared a bunch of emotional and loving type of moments together but have not yet shared any type of kiss.
*Leaps of faith were taken by all three members of the SwanFire family (Emma on the boat, Neal with the shadow, Henry with the pixie dust).
*We haven’t seen the dreamcatcher or swan pendant play a big part in things yet but the Bug was front and center in taking Emma & Henry to safety (and eventually to Neal’s home in NYC…) and all three of those things are big time SwanFire symbols.
There’s a specific reason all of these things have been shown but not resolved , hinted at, or come back to yet so it would be really bad writing for them to deviate from what they’ve ALL READY DONE on the show and go down a completely different path. I’m not going to tell them how to write their show but if all of these things, ALL of which I consider canon since they’ve been said or happened on the show all ready, don’t get resolved or brought up again sometime in season 3 part B, I will genuinely be very sad. Don’t tell me one story and then totally take a 180 on me when you think the majority wants to see something else. Someone up above said that shows die when they start catering to fans and I totally agree with that so hopefully they stick with their statement from SDCC last year (I think): “We don’t write ships; we write stories.” Well, they started a great story with SwanFire (you can take it all the way back to the pilot too because Emma does talk about Henry’s father to Regina so the character of Neal is NOT someone they randomly brought in…he’s someone they’ve thought about for a while) and I want to see them continue writing that instead of bowing down to media, network, or fan pressure. Stay true to your vision guys.
/end rant (Awww man, this means I have to go back to work now, LOL)
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