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not only that, I realized that probably can’t even watch any reruns on netflix anymore!! it’s disturbing even to do that anymore haha I used to watch and rewatch season 2 on Netflix so much, but now I can’t, I just can’t. I lost all of my excitement for this story.
Same I feel so haunted by Neal’s death. I can’t bear to watch Season 1 or 2 with any young Bae/Neal in it. Maybe eventually if I forget “Quiet Minds” ever happened. But knowing his eventual sad fate it just too hard. I’ll probably be screaming “Don’t go to Storybrooke!” at him. It’s been nothing but crap ever since he got there. Someone asked if I stop watching if Neal is killed off. Well I think I’m going to keep to my word and not watch it live. Does that sound petty of me? I can’t support anything OUAT shows me anymore. I’m pretty much disillusioned by the latest episode.
I know what you mean. I don’t want to say that I’ll never watch the show but the shine is gone now. I don’t look forward to my Once time on Sundays anymore. I just don’t care. And I do love other characters on the show I just don’t seem to care about any of it right now. I haven’t even looked at spoilers or anything which is crazy for me because I love me some spoilers. At this point, I have no desire to make the show a priority anymore. And it’s not because Neal isn’t there, its just that I no longer trust that the stories are going to go where they are suppose to anymore.
[adrotate group="5"]"We were happy."
"Because... it was born out of true love."What chatroom and password? Can I has?? Please??
"We were happy."
"Because... it was born out of true love."
http://swanthief.tumblr.com/post/80584828801/ill-see-you-both-again
"We were happy."
"Because... it was born out of true love."What’s really upsetting for me is that this is the first time that people I can usually count on to agree with my perspective are absolutely livid over an episode. It doesn’t feel good to clash with friends, and I’m seeing Oncers I’m fond of chatting with angry at the show and wanting to leave it. Honestly, I’m taking that harder than I’m taking the episode itself. It makes me want to cry.
It was bound to happen. We can’t always see eye to eye. But just give it time. Some of us just need a break or a chance to just process all of this. Most people aren’t leaving the show. But some of us are disillusioned now. I’m glad that you liked the episode and enjoyed it, I personally just didn’t.
"We were happy."
"Because... it was born out of true love."There were so many things said here today that I totally agree with but you all said better than I ever could.
I’m a little tired and a bit rambly so I’m going to apologize ahead of time. And I’m not even close to as eloquent as the rest of you so if you can bear with me. 🙂
You all are gems and I still hurt, grieve, and mourn with you. But I’m still functioning in my normal life and doing things like I always do. But I’ve always felt this is a safe place to vent and get out our frustrations without being judged. My whole outlook on life didn’t change or anything but I’m disappointed. I’m disappointed and jaded and bitter about a show that was my escape. My escape that was suppose to be filled with wonder and enchantment and fairytale stories. The truth is that the show has evolved into a place that I didn’t think it was going to go. I didn’t think it would go this dark and mean and cruel. I loved s1. I loved the stories and the way the fairytales weaved together to make a story. And I liked parts of s2. There were still some good stories and some interesting twists and turns and they meddled together fairly well. But I haven’t enjoyed s3 that much. A lot of s3 has felt forced and disjointed. Sometimes the stories just didn’t mesh well. And where were all the twisted fairytales that I fell in love with? There really hasn’t been many in s3 and the ones they do incorporate, they haven’t done particularly well (aka The Tower). I don’t know. I guess I have been slowly falling out of love. Maybe I’m not a true fan or something but I also think it’s because I thought no matter what, the show would be true to its characters. I’ve always thought of this as a character driven show, not a plot driven show. I thought character development and finding out who these people were was at the core of this show. At least s1 felt that way to me and for the most part s2 tried to but at some point, I guess the plot became the focus and more important. And now that A&E have confirmed that plot and story is more important and is what is driving the episodes, I am less interested. If plot and story is more important then I suppose it makes sense to forget what your characters have said and done in past episodes and have your characters do things that are out of character to further your plot. And some people like that. They like plot and story more than character development and focus and that’s fine. And they like it going all dark but this isn’t where I thought this show was going to go. I mean I don’t mind some dark elements but not as the main message and premise of the show.
And of course I am upset over Neal’s death but had it been under different circumstances, stayed completely true to his character, I would have still been sad but would have been able to accept it. If Neal had slowly started to turn dark because of being away from his family, I could have understood his eventual giving into it. But the desperation to do anything so quickly was so strange and unnatural. Belle and Neal didn’t even really research anything. And that is incredibly strange for both characters. And there are many more examples of things that happened either way way way too quickly or just completely wrong for many of the characters in this episode. (start of Snowing rant) Now I love Snowing but I also know that they are naive and like to see the good in everyone sometimes to a fault, but come on, Snow used to be a bandit?!? Does she not have any instincts left in her at all? Did being pregnant completely kill all her instincts and sense. sidenote: I personally have been pregnant several times and I will say that it didn’t make me lose all sense (at least I don’t think) and it actually made me more wary of everything since I had not only myself to think about but a whole other life as well. They couldn’t have asked any other person in SB, if they had ever heard of Zelena before? Surely if she had been a mid-wife in the EF like she claimed, someone would know of her. Ask any families with babies for instance. (end of that rant) Now that I think more about it, there were things that I did find accurate just maybe not how they got there. Once, Neal decided to bring Rumple back and found out that it was going to cost his life, he didn’t hesitate to pay that price. Now that is true to his character. He has never been afraid to pay for the mistakes that he has made but he’s been alive for centuries, do you think he would suddenly forget that there was a price for using dark magic, dark enough magic to bring the dark one back? And then for him to enact that without knowing exactly what the price was? It just doesn’t make sense. What if the price was Emma or Henry’s life. He was just going to accept any price without actually figuring it out? Um, no. The Neal I know would have never ever done that, even if he was desperate to get back to his family. And using his father to get back to his son? Uh, did Neal forget that the only way Rumple could get to him was to curse the entire EF to get to him? Again, not something Neal would do. So it was very strange for me to hear him say that he needed to get his father back so that his father could get him back to Emma and Henry. Weird. And then once he finds out that the WW wants them to bring his father back and that she’d have control over him, Neal still brings him back? NO way would the Neal I know, that the show had shown me thus far, have done that. Just inconsistency after inconsistency. And there was just so many other ways they could have gotten to Neal’s death without it feeling so out of character. Even if it had to be done in one episode. The WW could have tried to force Belle to push that key down or something and Neal jump in and grab it before she did it. I don’t know. It just seemed all wrong. I just really don’t like how they got to Neal’s death. If they had to do it, fine, but they should have made it mean more and more in line with who Neal was. 🙁
"We were happy."
"Because... it was born out of true love."Is there anything they could do in the rest of the season to reinvest you (collective you) in the show again?
We shall see. I do intend to keep watching to see what they actually do next. It sucks because I was really looking forward to seeing OQ, and how Regina would grow during that. I’m always looking forward to more Rumple. I was loving the setup of all the Oz stuff, and how they were integrating parts of the traditional story into present day. Now everything is tainted, and they’ll have to have some really creative writing for me to be able to look past the big, gaping, Neal shaped hole in each ep, in order to properly appreciate the rest of the stuff they’re doing.
I don’t know if I can. I just don’t care anymore. I’m not excited. I’m not looking forward to the show. I really am NOT looking forward to the CS stuff. But that’s how I feel right now. We’ll see in a few days/weeks.
"We were happy."
"Because... it was born out of true love."
http://cassidyswan.tumblr.com/post/81304845466/he-was-a-hero
He spent his whole putting others before himself. He always knew what it meant to make a true sacrifice. His father didn’t teach it to him, it was quite the opposite I think.
"We were happy."
"Because... it was born out of true love."I just read your post Phee. It just breaks my heart all over again. But I totally agree with all of it.
"We were happy."
"Because... it was born out of true love."Well, I don’t want to make light of this past episode but some the captions in this was really funny. So if you want a little laugh and don’t mind looking at screencaps of this episode.
http://thelast-thingido.tumblr.com/3X15-recap
The Wicked Witch ones with Mary Margaret were so funny.
"We were happy."
"Because... it was born out of true love."Well, because it was cruel. I still don’t think it was a “bold” storytelling choice but it is what it is. I still don’t like the disjointed way they handled a lot of the episode. It was an emotional episode and it had some really great moments but it had some strange uncharacteristic moments as well. (Wouldn’t Belle have stayed up all night and read all about what would happen when trying to resurrect the dark one for instance?) There was just too many inconsistencies between previous episodes and what happened in them and what happened in this one. I still feel like they changed the course of their story this summer and hastily added this in. But whatever.
I still love all of you and will still visit this thread to be with you all but the show has lost what was special to me. I just don’t have any passion left for it.
"We were happy."
"Because... it was born out of true love."
