Reply To: ranting a bit, but not to bad!

[once_dude]

Ok, I can see somewhat your point, here is how I see it.

I loved what they did in season one, they built a world to play in, with the story behind Snow White, Prince Charming, Regina, and Rumplestiltskin. They did some interesting stories too like Hansel and Gretel, Red Riding Hood, (nice twist that not a lot could have predicted) and the Mad Hatter (again just taking a character in name only)

Season 2 I absolutely hated. It had emphasis on plot rather than character, and the plot was not even that good most of the time. They tried to show a redemption arc for Regina and it just failed. There were only three really good episodes from last Season: Manhattan, The Queen Is Dead, The Miller’s Daughter.

This season I feel they are really going where the show was meant to go. They are having adventures wherein people like Snow White, Charming, Regina, Emma, even captain Hook, find out who they really are beyond the facade that others see of them. We see Rumplestiltskin with his inner conflict about whether he should be noble or fight for himself and his nasty habits like he has always done. We see a very twisted origin of Peter Pan and yet they keep the spirit of his Neverland self close to the book with some of the expressions they use and the way he is always playing games.

Ok i grant you they are not doing strict retellings offolklore and fairy tale and they have now expanded borders to Neverland and Wonderland and some sort of world without colour (what is up with that I still want some answers there) but I never thought they would just stick to fairy tales. True they have explored beyond Storybrooke, but when you have fairytales you have to have quests and that is what this first arc of the season was. (they tried to do a quest in season 2 and failed miserably)

I don’t know if any of my opinions made sense but hope you appreciate them. The one point I agree with you on is that it would be best for eveyrone to just pretend that the second season never happened for the most part.