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And are you also saying that there will be another blind item you will publish in? Or not?
You misunderstood my post… I was parodying what TV Line’s mindset could have been prior to posting that Blind Item, hence the quotation marks…
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A & E address, sort of, the Robin Hood rumor via EW.
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/16/once-upon-time-robin-hood-deathStill not reassured though. They talk only of Regina’s happy ending. Not Robin’s.
Well, Regina did specifically say in the season 4 finale that her happy ending isn’t a man but being comfortable in her own skin. And then Robin’s death was heavily foreshadowed in 5×2 “The Price” when he nearly died. No price was actually paid then. So maybe a price needs to be paid now. I think Robin’s death has been planned since at least the end of season 4 when the writers realized how poorly Robin was received after the Zelena/Marian-Robin-Regina triangle. Sorry to say, but it looks like another father will bite the dust while Zelena will get to stay around and play mommy dearest.
"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
Well, Regina did specifically say in the season 4 finale that her happy ending isn’t a man but being comfortable in her own skin. And then Robin’s death was heavily foreshadowed in 5×2 “The Price” when he nearly died. No price was actually paid then. So maybe a price needs to be paid now. I think Robin’s death has been planned since at least the end of season 4 when the writers realized how poorly Robin was received after the Zelena/Marian-Robin-Regina triangle. Sorry to say, but it looks like another father with bite the dust while Zelena will get to stay around and play mommy dearest.
1. A&E don’t plan anything.
2. What bothers me is that they think that the only way he can leave the show is by killing him, it’s not. They think that death is the only way that a couple can be broken up, well it’s not. There are couples in real life that realize that the relationship is not what they want anymore and simply split, an Robin could simply return to the EF with his son and daughter. It would actually tie itself greatly to what has been said in 104, a fairy can’t fix your problem in real life. When Tinkerbell match making Regina and Robin, they were both very different, at that time, they would have worked, but time has passed and life happened and they grew to be completely different from what they used to be. That’s poetic. Killing him off and leaving his son without parents is not.
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What bothers me is that they think that the only way he can leave the show is by killing him, it’s not. They think that death is the only way that a couple can be broken up, well it’s not. There are couples in real life that realize that the relationship is not what they want anymore and simply split, an Robin could simply return to the EF with his son and daughter.
THIS! Although they’ve put too much effort into making OQ sea worthy to sink it with anything less than a death. The problem is that in OUAT, relationships become rather static after the “hook up” phase (the only other thing they know how to do is the Rumbelle on-again, off-again carousel of hell). So OQ hasn’t evolved much, one way or another. But the depiction of the sort of estrangement you’re describing requires careful writing and characterization, and simply put, screen time spent telling the story. Not OUAT’s forte.
1. A&E don’t plan anything.
They do, but they only plan one season at a time. Every June, they have what is called a “writers’ bootcamp” for a week in which they plan out the next season (though only in broad strokes). They focus on the details only a half season at a time it seems though, and even then, it seems like they might change their minds sometimes half way through (e.g. how Emma said her family had failed her in 5×1, when really, she had failed them by making Hook into a second dark one in 5×8).
"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
What bothers me is that they think that the only way he can leave the show is by killing him, it’s not. They think that death is the only way that a couple can be broken up, well it’s not. There are couples in real life that realize that the relationship is not what they want anymore and simply split, an Robin could simply return to the EF with his son and daughter.
THIS! Although they’ve put too much effort into making OQ sea worthy to sink it with anything less than a death. The problem is that in OUAT, relationships become rather static after the “hook up” phase (the only other thing they know how to do is the Rumbelle on-again, off-again carousel of hell). So OQ hasn’t evolved much, one way or another. But the depiction of the sort of estrangement you’re describing requires careful writing and characterization, and simply put, screen time spent telling the story. Not OUAT’s forte.
Yes. They put OQ through hell, but wanted to show that they were two mature people meant to be together, who could handle anything. And now the problem is … Then what … ? And then apparently they cannot think of anything besides death to restart drama.
If they don’t kill him, it leaves the possibility open that he’ll return. If the writers don’t want RH on the show anymore for whatever reason, I can see how they see killing him as the most reasonable option to keep having to avoid saying “he’s not coming back” over and over again. Not that that worked with Neal. But eh.
"I could have the giant duck as my steed!" --Daniel Radcliffe
Keeper Of Tamara's Taser , Jafar's Staff, Kitsis’s Glasses , Ariel’s Tail, Dopey's Hat , Peter Pan’s Shadow, Outfit, & Pied Cloak,Red Queen's Castle, White Rabbit's Power To World Hop, Zelena's BroomStick, & ALL MAGICIf they don’t kill him, it leaves the possibility open that he’ll return. If the writers don’t want RH on the show anymore for whatever reason, I can see how they see killing him as the most reasonable option to keep having to avoid saying “he’s not coming back” over and over again. Not that that worked with Neal. But eh.
Personally, I see killing off Robin in a permanent capacity even crueler for three main reasons:
1) Outlaw Queen has had so much build up and development for 3 Seasons. We also had a huge amount of drama with the couple in Season 4 in particular. So Regina has to suffer losing her true love yet again, despite how far she’s come? We as viewers would have gone through all of Outlaw Queen’s emotional rollercoaster for nothing?
2) Robin Hood has two little kids, with one of them being an infant. You kill off Robin, and Roland is completely an orphan with none of his birth parents around anymore. As for Baby Pistachio, her remaining birth parent would be Zelena…
3) All of 5B is about bringing Hook back from the dead, so they’re going to tell us that Robin’s death has to stick in the same arc? The more the show finds loopholes around “dead is dead”, the harder it is to convince the viewers when they really want us to believe it for certain characters. That’s why there are some Neal fans out there who continue to not entirely rule out the possibility, even when the show continues to remind us “he’s not coming back” at least once per Season. In Season 3 it was Emma saying “you can’t prevent his death from happening in the past, because he died a hero saving all of us. You can’t take that away from him.” In Season 4 it was the Apprentice saying “he died in the real world, and that can never be undone.” In Season 5, it’s Neal himself telling us “I’m not in the Underworld. I’m in a better place, and I’m happy there.”
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