ONCE - Once Upon a Time podcast
Reviews, theories, and talk about ABC's Once Upon a Time TV show
I’ve known about all of the ships (SQ, CS, SF) even before watching OUAT. Even before watching it, I wondered which ship I’d eventually be drawn to. Here’s the thing: despite seeing Hook first and Neal a bit later, Hook never felt like the ONE for Emma in my opinion. Who knows? Maybe Neal’s puppy face won me over, or maybe it’s just the fact that for me, they FIT. They just fit for me. I get fuzzy feelings when I see them together. Whenever I see Hook and Emma together, I feel nothing, no sparks, no fireworks, not even the sizzle the kiss was meant to make watchers feel. Even if SF isn’t endgame (I’m not as confident as all of you, I haven’t been watching for very long), for me CS would make even less sense. I agree with everyone that there was no build-up to the kiss. It was just there, smack-dab right in my face. I’m not that trusting of the media. The writers might very well end the game with CS just to make the gazillion of CS fans happy. But they sunk Gremma and Wooden Swan, who knows maybe CS will just be another one of those ships (Gremma had more chemistry to me than CS and they STILL killed Graham). My dearest wish for this show (Next to seeing Darling Pan happen) would be to see Henry, Neal, and Emma together as one happy family. The three of them have that in common: they’re all original characters, free from any fairytale counterparts. It just wouldn’t make sense to me to make up an original character, one like Emma if they weren’t meant to be together and have her (an original character) be integrated into the Neverland mythos. Captain Hook is fine for me. He’s an interesting character and I don’t think he’s bad (he just made bad choices just like Neal, just like every member of the cast), but unlike a lot of people I find Neal more interesting, his mannerisms, his motivations, his Papa wolf tendencies… Even if A&E says that their Original characters don’t have fairy tale counterparts, Emma and Neal will always be Rapunzel and Eugene (Again another parallelism! Flynn-Eugene, Neal-Baelfire) to me. Punzie and Eugene ended up married, who knows what’s in store for E&N?
Wendy and Peter? I’ve seen Darling Pan and Pendy as their ship name on blogs. I’ve also seen beautiful edits with the both of them! Personally I ship (I’ve shipped?) them despite the show not yet showing any interaction between them.