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Yeah, i definitely agree that Season 1 is the reason i am still watching this show. Everything after that, including Season 2 and 3A were not that great, though Season 2 was amazing compared to some of the later stuff which has been terrible.
And none of the characters that were introduced after Season 1 have really worked, in my opinion. None of the new characters ever had the depth that the earlier characters did. Except maybe Pan.
[adrotate group="5"]I think it is a mistake when it feels like they are worried about changing the Disney versions of the characters for this show. The Disney versions can be a jumping off point, but they should have made the characters realistic people after that. Going the Stockholm syndrome route or leaning on Snow’s depression or Rumpel’s addiction, as well as, trying to realistically portray the difficult of blended families, with adopted, biological, and step parents would have been more interesting then what they did. What they did, was hint at all these things, but they never really got into the complication and depth that would have made all of those things interesting.
I think Alice is a really odd character. I find her character interesting, but she is also kind of unlikable in the sense of the overacting and i just don’t want her to be part of the family and start babysitting Lucy.
Yeah, i think when they were giving the background characters regular work, like the dwarfs, and Granny, Red, and the doctor, then the town felt more peopled, but went they sent the characters away for a half, they lost that.
Though, they should have transplanted Storybrooke to the Enchanted Forest or created an open portal between the Enchanted Forest and Storybrooke, probably sometime in Season 3. The whole bean, portal, multiple curse stuff got really out of hand.
I agree. It is better when the costumes are interpretations of the character, not exact copies. Like Maleficent’s original dress was better then the later one with the horns.
That’s true. Which seems pretty likely with the whole ex-girlfriend that worked for Belfry comment. If that is possible and they are the villains of the arc, save us, then maybe Alice was somehow involved in Anastasia’s murder. I wonder if they are going to redeem these characters and maybe make Anastasia bad in some way, like she had it coming.
These press releases are so weird. They are sometimes just completely incorrect. I imagine Tiana is going to be given some sort of weird prophecy that was really just made up. I think we heard something about a prophecy.
For me, this show has a terrible legacy. It is generally thought very badly of outside of the people who make money off pretending that it is good. I do think that Going Home would have been a better ending then what we have, without a doubt. I don’t know that it was a spectacular ending though. Season 2 was still a mess with Regina waffling back and forth between murderer and Emma, Snow, and Charming using her as a babysitter. That and Greg and Tamara. Also, a lot of the Neverland arc was boring until they got into the Pan, Rumpel, Neal, Henry stuff, so it isn’t as if the show was awesome until that moment.
There was a lot of really great stuff in those early seasons though. The Emma and Snow stuff in the Enchanted forest in Season 2, as well as their stuff in Neverland was awesome. The Emma/Henry/Neal/Rumpel episodes was awesome. The Cora stuff was awesome. I just think that the over reaching arc was terrible and clearly changed at the last minute to keep Hook alive. The whole fail safe, let’s chance destroying the whole town to save Regina, Snow taking that risk, Emma agreeing, was complete crap. Then when they rewrote Hook for Season 3 and suddenly Emma is randomly kissing him when before she pretty much though he was misogynistic trash that was in her way that she constantly had to keep arresting or locking up somewhere.
There is a lot of good in those early seasons, but there is a lot of bad too. Of course, the legacy would be better in that the show hadn’t at that time ruined Emma. The protagonists of the show Emma and Snow were still liked at that time, at least in some capacity. That was before they really wrote Emma liking Hook. That was before they quit writing for the mother/daughter relationship with Emma and Snow. That was before they dropped Rumpel’s connection to the family and his entire reason for what he was doing by killing Baelfire.
I watch this show because i like the sword and sorcery genre and there are complicated female main characters on this show, but the writing is just terrible. Even in Season 1 there were major writing errors. For me though, this show was never going to be remembered like Buffy. It would have been better thought of if it ended at 3A, mostly because it would have been a cliffhanger, but not thought of as like a cult classic. This show was never going to be that.
I thought it was interesting how scared Victoria seemed to be of Tilly when Tilly showed up in her car. Victoria seemed more afraid then seemed normal, like it had more to do with who Alice was in the Enchanted Forest and maybe some interaction she had with Tremaine in the past. I don’t think that is the first time Tremaine has met Alice.
