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The writers seem pretty liberal with the sob stories, not just the females.
Most certainly not just the female villains get sob stories on this show, but particular they get weak ones. And in general it has become repetitive stuff IMO.
as a mentally ill person i just feel uncomfortable with this stuff.
I love “Crazy” villains but they can be really problematic in the way they’re presented.
I agree. It too often leaves a bad taste.
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@PriceofMagic made a great point in another thread. The writers likely see mental illness as easier because it requires less fleshing out. They had three villains this season. They obviously wanted to focus more on Mal and her story with Lily, so Ursula’s backstory explained her villainy by using a story we already know (The Little Mermaid) and Cruella’s story came down to mental illness. One is simple and already known and the other needs little explanation. I still found Cruella’s story entertaining and a good twist on the typical ONCE take on villains, but I do understand why there is a bit of line being crossed given Cruella’s end.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"It goes against the “Evil wasn’t born, it’s made.”
I think that’s what I liked about it, actually. It was finally something different from the same tired story.
I don’t think it does go against “Evil isn’t born, it’s made.” Cruella had that one line about when she was a little girl, deciding to “Splash around in the darkness.” To me, this means she made a choice to go dark, grooming herself to become darker. She made herself dark by her own choices.
a little girl probably doesn’t even know how to recognise darkness though. and she hasn’t really been out enough, living in a fairly sheltered place, to experience darkness and no what it is. Like i said this concept could have worked FOR ANOTHER CHARACTER. evil in the real world most often comes from men in suits, not quirky, crazy colourful types. it’d be nice to have a villain who’s “just evil” but wasn’t someone like Cruella.
“a little girl” knew trumpet flowers were poisonous enough to give her father (and 2 stepfathers) a heart attack while maintaining that she was an innocent “little girl.”
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