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Indeed, a recurring theme throughout OUAT is that evil is made and not born. So why should this not apply to Milah too?

I think that doesn’t work for minor characters like Milah; they function more as scenery and setting than as people. Real people are all more complicated than that, of course, but I’m not going to fill in the blanks on a character sheet if the showrunners haven’t.

Milah’s role on the show seems to be to cause strife through narcissism; she hasn’t been developed with the nuances that have made other narcissistic characters — Regina, for example — sympathetic and compelling to me.

Besides, we do have evidence that she probably did hard labour (hauling wood in ‘Devil’s Due), she was depressed (she drank, she left her family!), and we know she thought things would be better if they moved, but Rumple didn’t want to.

I don’t find that persuasive. Lots of people do hard work and don’t always get what they want, and they don’t act harmfully as a result. Many people drink to excess and behave irresponsibly, and depression isn’t always the cause.

We haven’t seen much of Milah’s environment and backstory, and what we have seen just seems ordinary and relatively comfortable though bland, not the stuff of tragic tales.

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Any of these things could be true, and in all probability, most of them are.

I think it’s reasonable to suppose that some of Milah’s bad behaviours could stem from unpleasant experiences, but without evidence there’s no way for us to figure probability. I mean, we could just as easily substitute “false” for “true” in the quote, based on what we’ve seen in the show.

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She may have loved him for what he could provide her but when he could no longer provide her with that she scorned him, abused him, and neglected their child.

Looking at the relationship from the other direction, young man Rumpel had learned to expect horrible treatment from the people who claimed to love him. He would’ve interpreted it as affection if Milah had paid any sort of attention to him, good or bad.

Killian thought Milah was pretty nifty, too, but he wasn’t exactly a well-balanced individual at that point in his life. Maybe Milah treated everyone poorly, and the only men willing to give her a chance were those with no self-esteem.

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Honestly, I think I would have been okay with RumBelle having their grownup son. Snow and Charming missed out on Emma’s childhood but they seem okay. Rump missed out on Neal’s child hood and he turned out okay…all things considered. Emma missed out on Henry’s early childhood…. And now apparently Henry missed out on his own daughter’s childhood…. Wow this hsow has some serious parenting issues xD

I think this entire show is meant to be taking place in the mind of a child. Kids don’t see parenting as a thing, so it’s not part of any story that would be running in a kid’s mind. Kids know that Mom and Dad are older and in charge, and maybe there’s this awareness that Mom and Dad do gross stuff (but we don’t know the details and don’t want to know!), but there’s no foundation in a kid’s mind for empathy for the parents’ experience. All a child knows is that he or she will be grown up someday, while the details are a mysterious blur (and teenagers are scary, so we don’t even think about them!).

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(The website ate my homework. Trying again…)

Season 4 of A Place to Call Home.

Various shows on The Knowledge Network, which is British Columbia’s version of PBS. The website streams many of them, although I don’t know if that’s only available in BC. I find The Brokenwood Mysteries relaxing, and Waterfront Cities of the World is good for an armchair traveller like me.

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Do we know that the returning actors will play the same characters? We’ve seen different versions of these characters in the original timeline, the current timeline (Back to the Future), Isaac’s Heroes and Villains universe, and the Wish Realm. What if each realm has its own set of these characters, like DC Comics’ multiverse?

Henry is a special case — born in our world, but to parents from the Enchanted Forest — so adult Henry at the end of 6×22 could be teen Henry’s Earth-1 counterpart, born to Earth-1 Emma and Neal.

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I found the trailer grating for its repeated use of “I say a thing. I immediately repeat the thing profoundly.”

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2) What the heck with the Klingons?

3) Lots of females is great and all but this is Star Trek; it should be incredibly progressive. Each show should build on what came before. We start with the All American corn-fed Captain, get the balding philosopher king, then an African-American Captain, and finally a woman (I’m ignoring Archer cause prequel). This is going to be the first new Star Trek in a very long time. It should absolutely push the envelope of being progressive. Queer, diverse, body positive, race positive, gender positive and every alphabet letter in that soup. A cast of just mostly human women doesn’t cut it for me. It shouldn’t cut it.

Racial diversity can’t be just for humans, now, can it?

Joking aside, the Klingon genome is probably much more diverse than the human genome, because of the Hur’q invasion of Kronos a thousand years before the TNG era.

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It was sickening and depressing concept to see humans get that bad in their sense of greed.

Sadly, the Ford Pinto scandal shows that that kind of bottom-line reasoning isn’t fiction.

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I admit I have yet to see Moana, but I noticed a brand new door inside of Jefferson’s Hat last episode nad I’m sure you guys have too. Screenshots are welcome if anyone has em, but there was a door that was obviously a large Tiki carving.

I’m betting that Moana cast will show up next season because why not.

Either that of Lilo And Stitch.

How about King Kamehamayhem’s surfboard from Sky High? (It’s a Disney film, and there’s a sequel in development, so maybe not far-fetched.)

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