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TVLine’s poll is blowing up too. Neal has almost half of the votes. Emma is the least with less than a percent. Hopefully that’s just a red herring, I don’t want Neal to die…
Oh, and I concede, RG! I saw some posts pushing the language barrier, and I was wondering if you saw them.
[adrotate group="5"]Keeper of Thor’s Hammer, Will Scarlet’s Genie Bottle, Emma’s Gun, Emma and Henry’s Moment at the Castle, Cora, and the infamous Family Tree!
corbin wrote: But The Powers That Be could turn around and kill Regina. You never know with LOST writers
*cough*Charlie*cough* *cough*Juliette*cough* *cough*Sun and Jin and Sayid IN ONE FELL SWOOP*cough*
*curls up and sobs* Thanks for the reminders.
I just don’t understand why they would release this spoiler at all. It would have a much higher shock value if kept secret. All it did was just as antagonize and agonize fans and create division. WORST. SPOILER. EVER.
Hoping it might boost ratings perhaps? It’s a pretty high stakes plot twist, so maybe some people who haven’t been watching as regularly as they used to will get wind of it and tune in again?
TVLine’s poll is blowing up too.
I saw this post on tumblr just before, and it’s for a totally different poll, but it really applies to all online polls that allow someone to vote more than once (which the TVLine one does)…
Has anyone else noticed the “geographical breakdown” on this new shipping poll? It’s really interesting. You can track where the majority of votes are coming from. Not just that, you can actually zoom in on the hot spots to see EXACTLY where the majority of votes are coming from, so you can see whether they’re scattered around a city or coming from just one address. Like, I’m willing to bet that this person here in New York has voted slightly more than once, judging by what happens when you keep zooming in on that red area.
^ That right there is a hell of a lot of votes.So let’s just all remember this PROOF that the poll doesn’t accurately represent the fandom. Whatever pairing wins will not win because the majority of fans ship them. They’ll win because (for example) a single person on Reade St has been voting hundreds of times for their favorite pairing. NO NEED TO GET UPSET IF YOUR SHIP DOESN’T WIN, OK, GUYS?
PS: well played, exuberant central NY shipper.
TVLine’s poll is blowing up too. Neal has almost half of the votes. Emma is the least with less than a percent. Hopefully that’s just a red herring, I don’t want Neal to die…
Polls of this nature aren’t wholly accurate. People are voting for they think will die but that’s compounded by who they WANT to see die. It doesn’t mean that the writers are even thinking along the same lines as the internet fandom. And that’s to say nothing of the rest of the viewers who aren’t reading TVLine spoilers or a part of the veiwership.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Polls which allow a person to vote ad infinitum are going to be inherently skewed. The practice of stacking online polls, which often let people vote more than once, is called “freeping” and is largely considered wholly unreliable as an actual statistical modeling tool. In order for results to be considered scientifically viable, the number of votes must reflect the actual number of voters, otherwise the tendency to stack votes creeps in. When “freeping” occurs it’s because the goal is to direct people to online polls to intentionally bias the results to support their point of view. As Phee showed with her maps, all it takes is a dedicated group hitting the “submit” button over and over to the point of mania. That is why presidential polls which don’t limit you to one vote are considered unreliable in actually predicting the next president. Even when a person is limited to one vote per online device, they can usually get around that by voting again and again from a second and third device. One person might vote from three different computers, a cell phone, and an iPad with the hope of stacking the poll to reflect his or her opinion.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
I was just commenting on how, while it doesn’t mean it’s likely that the writers have the same thought line as all the fans, it can be used as a somewhat accurate representation of who the fandom wants to die out of the regulars.
Keeper of Thor’s Hammer, Will Scarlet’s Genie Bottle, Emma’s Gun, Emma and Henry’s Moment at the Castle, Cora, and the infamous Family Tree!
I was just commenting on how, while it doesn’t mean it’s likely that the writers have the same thought line as all the fans, it can be used as a somewhat accurate representation of who the fandom wants to die out of the regulars.
I agree that the story the writers choose to tell is largely independent of fan polls. ABC marketing is fully separate from the writing team. While the promo department might use these polls as a rough estimate to gauge what or who they think online viewers want to see, the results don’t accurately reflect the actual number of voters or viewers; the poll just reflect the number of times a group of dedicated fans obsessively hit ‘submit’ for their favored outcome.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
I’m more inclined to think that it will be Hook that dies. I think it will happen by him sacrificing his own life for Neal’s, Emma’s & Henry’s lives. Which would infact redeem Hook to become a hero
Keeper of Neal/BaelFire's Blood Magic, Neverland Crossbow, FTL Clothes,Room at Granny’s, Charming & Emma’s Father/Daughter Hugs, Henry's Neverland Crossbow, Rumplestlitskin/Mr.Gold's FTL Walking StickYou know what I think is strange is he uses the term his/her instead of this person so I thinking it has to be a guy that is leaving the show but I could be wrong someone could tweet and ask Matt if it is a man or a woman but I doubt if he would reply but could be worth the shot anyway. 🙂
at which point his/her portrayer will, make no mistake, leave the show.
Us trying to guess who it is reminds me of Vizini in Princess Bride …its making my head dizzy. I just know whoever it is won’t make me happy to see the character go whichever it is.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
interpret as you will but remember, to be kind and polite to each other.
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