[lunatiger]

Just wanted to say Good Luck to you all with tonight’s eppy.

 

 

I’ll be over in the tent nursing my two friends “Gin” and “Tonic” and probably catch up with recaps on tumblr tonight.

[lunatiger]

*Slinks out of the tent*

Looks at Shatner’s tweet and Mikey’s tweet

Luna’s heart is beginning to implode with too much feels

 

It’s a good day today…. 🙂

[lunatiger]

*Pokes head out of Le Tent of Doom*

I said it last night on tumblr…. #BOOM! You the man Shatner!

 

That’s all…

 

Goes back to her corner…

[lunatiger]

Yeah, it’s a real shame. The writers are getting lazy. First, they had the really messed up, confusing father-son absorption in 3×16 (which presents all sorts of problems like why Neal is sane but Rumple is mad). Then they had the confusing Neal-Hook hospital scene, which I wrote about above.

Then they rewrote history so that Hook told Emma in 3×17 he remembered her care-bare stare when she defeated Cora the “love is strength” bit, despite the fact that Emma had already knocked Hook unconscious in 2×9. The entire backstory for Hook was sloppy, at best.

Then the writers had a really confusing timeline of the flashback in 3×18 with the events of that episode contradicting some of the timeline from 2×16 and 1×18. Why exactly did Prince Henry marry Cora in the first place? Princess Eva was present at his King Xavier’s invitation, and Eva obviously would’ve identified Cora as the disgraced ex-fiancée of Prince Leopold who had conceived a child out of wedlock with the gardener and lied about it to Leo! Even if Cora could weave straw into gold, thereby presenting money for King Xavier’s kingdom, Cora talked about brides needing to be “snow white,” and yet it should’ve been common knowledge that Cora was a disgraced peasant who lied to Prince Leo. Don’t heads of state know such things when there’s to be a royal wedding? Xavier should’ve known Cora’s history since he surely would’ve heard about Leo canceling his wedding to Cora.

Then there is that entire issue about how Cora and Leopold didn’t even act in 1×18 like they’d ever even met before, let alone ever been engaged once! Talk about rewriting history to try and cover up obvious discontinuity. Leo knowingly consented the marry the daughter of his former, almost wife who lied to him and tried to pass off a peasant’s illegitimate child as a royal heir? (I mean no offense by the term, though I think it’s a horrid, but I use it according to the medieval convention of the day).

Then we have 3×19 which was a whole kitten caboodle of rule breakage. All magic comes with a price, except for Snow White. We’ll give her a pass on having to pay any price for casting the curse to end all curses. No hole in Snow’s heart because she’s so pure, whereas Regina had to pay the price because her heart had grown dark. Snow murdered her husband, while Regina murdered her dad. Yet, Henry Sr. has to stay dead because Regina killed him to enact revenge whereas Snow only killed David to protect everyone. Intent is what matters, not outcomes.

Instead of having to sacrifice the thing Snow loves most, we’ll let her keep her husband. You can’t have a fairytale about hope with out Prince Charming after all. What happened to dead is dead? No matter if Emma just pulled the plug on her true love, yet Neal remains dead. Charming gets to live, despite having been dead, because Snow and Charming already were of one heart, so she gets to split her’s in half to share and revive her husband, even though he was physically dead. No matter that magical heart transplants so far have always gone awry like that time Regina tried to put a random heart in her dead fiancé but instead ended up with a monster. But Charming doesn’t have to be a walking dead zombie because his love for Snow is pure, unlike Regina, who was set on revenge.

No matter that Rumple designed Emma to be the savior in the first curse by adding the safety valve, thereby meaning only she could break the curse. We’ll just say Regina was able to break this curse because well, magic, even though we never saw Regina add her own version of a fail safe in this most recent dark curse. Magic handwaving. Shhhhh. Of course, I wrote all of this essay in very a tounge and cheek way.

*heads desk*

Hugs Slurpeez’s post. Hugs everyone in the thread. A&E pretty much just chucked their own established ones out the window. Which is the prime reason I can’t really stomach 3B at all, besides the OOC character moments which have pretty much skyrocketed this season.

Yes, forgive my logic thinking brain and it’s rules. Why have rules, why have consistency? Who am I to demand such small things?

 

Rocks out in Le Tent of Doom. Pretty swanky, love your interior decorating. Anyone need a bartender for the conspiracy train? Happy to oblige

 

 

[lunatiger]

I LOVE IT Heather!!!! I give my stamp of approval. 🙂

[lunatiger]

So as I sit in my corner in Le Tent of Doom, hugging my tub of ice cream and gin. Someone point out yet another glaring plot hole.

How the heck did Neal not know what Rumple knew when they shared a body since in “A Curious Thing” Neal hears what Zelena is planning in EF and jumps out of his father’s body without any help to send a message to Hook.

While in SB Neal had to have Emma rip him out so that Rumple can divulge a name. A name that he also should have know if he and Rumple were sharing the same body since he was inside Rumple when Zelena held him in her celler. Rumple was cognitive enough remember but not Neal?

This contradicts what happens in “A Curious Thing” If body switched then shouldn’t Neal be insane like Rumple? If they want to go in the route of the body can handle two minds?

I…just… ARGH!!!!!!!

 

The only thing I hate in storytelling is plot holes on top of plot holes…

 

Goes back to her corner….

[lunatiger]

Luna-You are one of my favorite people in the world and I know this show has really hit rock bottom when it takes you down this hard. I’ll sit in that tent with you this weekend eating ice cream, Heads & Tails Oreos, Spam, and downing some amaretto sours and wine coolers (the only alcohol I can really handle, LOL). We’ve got each other! *HUGS* 🙂

Aww, thanks Heather! Hugs! I’m feeling much better after you’ve so kindly shared all your goodies with me. My yoga session has also helped my peace of mine. But that doesn’t mean I’m all aboard the tent of optimism yet. Nor do I think the show has much redeemable qualities anymore.

The thing is. I was getting over Neal’s death episode. I was getting over how they did such a hack job of it. I try not to dwell on the subject that much but A&E have manage yet again to surprise me with their nonsensical storytelling this season. Sometimes I wonder if aliens invaded the writing team’s bodies. Because it’s hard to believe the scripts coming out now are from the same people that wrote season 1 or season 2 for that matter.

What really made me flip the table was Charming’s revival from the dead. He actually died! Snow crushed his heart. Let’s throw away all established rules and just write in a clause out of thin air of being able to split a heart into two. Seriously? It just totally screams “We can’t ax Josh Dallas off this show.” It not only cheapening your Dead is Dead concept even further, but also made a mockery of Neal’s death because well… conveniently they choose not to make the Emma or Rumple think of a way to stop his death right then a there. Conveniently there is no loophole for Neal this time around. Conveniently they had to twist all the character and story in an unnatural way to make this one plot work.

Please excuse me as I hurl into a bucket at this lazy writing *eye rolls*

OT: Another series I’ve been watching that is almost ending ironically has my favorite hero whom I ship with the main heroine, unceremoniously die after all his trials and suffering. And of course this sinks my OTP permanently.

*Flips the table*

I’m pretty much numb at this point. I must be cursed I tell you. Remind me never to be the hero on television. Writers these days are so morbid… 🙁

[lunatiger]

Oh gosh, the show actually took down Luna. Someone help her!!!! *HUGS*

*throws cookies, hot cocoa, vodka, margarita mix, ice cream, and cookie dough at luna in the other tent*

 

Thank you Heather. Don’t mind me I’ll just be in the corner of the tent drowning my sorrows with my bucket full of ice cream and vodka… carry on…

[lunatiger]

Remember all that hurt and pain I tried to quash after “Quiet Minds”? Well it just came flooding back. And I’m still raging from last night episode. Seeing a pic of Neal’s tombstone saying “Beloved Son” was an absolute outrage in my eyes. He was so much more than that.

Wow just wow. They really want to manipulate the audience by trying to distance themselves from anything related to Emma and Henry to make way for CS. Let’s vilify him before killing him off to make him look like a selfish B***d, when all his life he’s been cautious with magic. Let’s have him say “Go find Tallahassee, even if it’s not with me.” When 3 episodes back he was fighting like hell to get back to them. Let’s have Emma not even mourn anymore 24 hours after he’s dead and buried, when in all of 3A she wasn’t doing anything BUT that. Let’s have the tombstone just say “Beloved Son” because hey it doesn’t really matter that Neal was Henry’s father and Emma and him shared a history together, right? Right?

*Weeps uncontrollably*

Oh and let’s not stop there, let bastardize Snowing “goodness” and find a loophole in the whole “dead is dead” thing for Charming. Yes, of course we need to have a convenient loophole for Charming and spit it back into the face of Neal fans. Since Neal doesn’t get a loophole.

*Takes a swig from her glass*

I’ll also add to the list of worst case scenarios. Let’s time travel back and wipe Henry completely from existence so it severs all ties to Neal permanently. Emma and Hook can start fresh on their princess, prince fairy-tale together with Henry out of the way. Why would you bring Henry back if Neal is not coming back? I can totally see this happening.

I never thought I see the day where a freakin family show about fairy-tales turned me into a raging alcoholic

Sorry if I’m bringing everyone down I just need to vent and it’s a Monday…
Anymore room in Le Tent of Doom?

[lunatiger]

I don’t know about you guys but of all plot devices for death revival, the heart ripping in half takes the cake for me…

*sigh*

Enough raging for one night, it’s not good for my blood pressure.

[Author]

Posts