If your ship doesn’t sail…

[angiebelle]

RumBelle is my favorite part of the show, but it’s not the only reason I watch.  I love all the characters and their relationships to each other.  I love that it’s a big mash up of fairytales- professional fanfiction!  At this point, I’m way too invested in the story to ever give up the show.  I just am not the type to go from “this is the best show ever!” to “I never want to watch again!”  It’s too big of a jump for me.  Even if I disliked the direction they took the show in, I’d still want to know how everything turned out.  I’m there for the journey- good or bad.  There is nothing that would make me stop watching.

[Grimmsister]

RumBelle is my favorite part of the show, but it’s not the only reason I watch. I love all the characters and their relationships to each other. I love that it’s a big mash up of fairytales- professional fanfiction! At this point, I’m way too invested in the story to ever give up the show. I just am not the type to go from “this is the best show ever!” to “I never want to watch again!” It’s too big of a jump for me. Even if I disliked the direction they took the show in, I’d still want to know how everything turned out. I’m there for the journey- good or bad. There is nothing that would make me stop watching.

Yea thats pretty much the way I feel too. I think it was awhile ago, maybe last year, that I realized the show wasnt gonna live up to all I had expected of it. But I realized I had expected a lot, lol! And the show is the writers, the actors and the producers show to tell. Sure they mess up stuff. But Im gratefull they are making this show at all. So I let the mistakes go and enjoy the show for what it is.

[RumplesGirl]

I just want to say that a good chunk of us who are upset right now are STILL going to be watching.

I am, for one.

I may view the show differently right now, but that doesn’t mean I am going to stop watching. It just means that I need  to watch differently, with a different set of eyes, if you will.

And my being upset cannot be reduced to a ship. I don’t watch for just one thing/ship/character. I’m upset at the way something was handled.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[once_dude]

This show has a “nasty habit” of  self destruction, thusI can never be sure about it. I like certain canon ships one of them I think had changed radically (cough cough Snowing) from what I first thought it was. I also have a one true pairing which now will never happen. My love of the show was very much apart from shipping, it was based ona fresh retelling of the fairy tales I know and loved. Season 2 departed from that with things like the trip to Enchanted Forest and back, the home office plot etc.

A couple of general comments about the show:

I feel this show has a nasty habit of self destruction. At times they have great plots, and at times they create sub-par stories. I am not sad that Baelfire died, I am sad about the lousy way in which it was written. There is so much potential for this show, we have seen great moments of triumph and great moments of despair. I have beene motionally impacted by several episodes but was Quiet Minds, no.

Magic always comes with a price, so I pay with visa.

[Grimmsister]

I think alot of the trouble is that they have to many stories that they want to tell and they are not very good at “killing their darlings” so to speak. So at first they go in one direction but then, oh no… they also want to show a bit of this and then some of that.

Actually like if they/(the writes) were the Little red riding Hood in the forest. She wanted to pick the nicest flowers for her granny and then she just kept going further into the forest because she always saw a nicer flower beyond the one she was picking, until she got lost in the forest and met the wolf.

It would have been so much better if they had written a clear outline for the story from the beginning and agreed on just a select number of tales to tell. Then maybe they woudnt have gotten lost between all the stories/trees 🙂

[Crystal Princess]

tbh I think sometimes the fans do pick up on things the writers don’t and come up with better solutions. Catering to fans can cause problems but rallying against them can be even worse. You have to be willing to accept there might be a better way to write things. With someone like OUAT, it’s not exactly an artistic masterpiece and it is an interactive entity, to some degree, with it’s audience.

I don't cause commotions, I am one.

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