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CROSSBONES TONIGHT. You guys will have to catch me up though because I haven’t been able to get caught up on all the ones I’ve missed the last few weeks
The Caveman is a hippie scientist
he is also related to henry, not totally sure, but there is 99.99999999% posibility of them being related. *Ups, dont know if i should put this as spoiler or not, i will think and then in case if is needed, @RG will tell me*
Nah. Not about ONCE. Totes okay.
Thanks, i was a bit afraid, bc since i was saying the caveman is probably related to henry, i didnt knew if the spoiler tag was needed, but now im good knowing i didnt spoiled anything, well , i actually spoiled to @Heather, but you are all witnesses that she asked for an update.
[adrotate group="5"]"I offended you with my opinion? Ha, you should hear the ones I keep to myself".
CROSSBONES TONIGHT. You guys will have to catch me up though because I haven’t been able to get caught up on all the ones I’ve missed the last few weeks
The Caveman is a hippie scientist
he is also related to henry, not totally sure, but there is 99.99999999% posibility of them being related. *Ups, dont know if i should put this as spoiler or not, i will think and then in case if is needed, @RG will tell me*
"I offended you with my opinion? Ha, you should hear the ones I keep to myself".
Happy Friday.
@textbookone i have to say i received mine today and must say i love it ( wow, never thought portuguese mail would be that fast) you very sweet to have send this to us.Also you can tell Puck his new friends will arrive on monday, actually they arrived today( is a good sign when the squish friends and your package arrive at the same day, even if i only get one of them), but i wasnt at home, so i will need to pick them on monday at the post office, but is official next week the ranch will have new menbers, so besides the Baby Bison, Puck, Nealwhale, Hettie, Nelson, on monday we will have 2 other menbers, that i may ask for your help to choose names, but we talk about that next week.
"I offended you with my opinion? Ha, you should hear the ones I keep to myself".
Operation Villain Justification: Nealfire Fail (yes, in this too)
On OUAT, the villains we are supposed to be convinced are capable of change (and also that are meant to inspire sympathy within us) have at at least two things in common.
They are originally introduced at the height of their villainy (Regina as the full-on Evil Queen, Rumple as the dangerous, insane Imp in a prison cell).
Following this, full episodes are devoted to showing their original motivations. The “Why” of the “Who” they’ve become.
This method of storytelling is meant to flesh-out the character, but more importantly, it is used as a call to viewers to sympathize with their decisions, with the traumas that influenced them on their trip down villain street.
It matters that Regina was abused and brought-up in a twisted manner by Cora, that she had to watch her True love murdered. It matters that Rumple lived a life of the outcast consequent of his father’s (and then his own) cowardice. (PSA: These facts do not excuse their later actions.)
So let’s take a minute and hold up Baelfire/Neal Cassidy/Henry’s father to this standard. After all, plenty of the fandom views him as a villain (toward Emma, if in no other way).
Baelfire’s first introduction has him as a child. Not a villain.
Neal Cassidy’s first introduction (as a character with a face) has him as a charming love interest. His act of perceived villainy doesn’t occur until that episode’s final moments.
“Henry’s Father”, whenever mentioned in S1, is represented as nothing but a villain (our first introduction to this character, which ended up being Baelfire/Neal Cassidy) but as faceless one. And all information dropped about him keeps him well off-screen.
This prevents an actor from portraying him, from bringing to bear any charisma or personal magnetism (which Regina and Rumple were able to show in spades as embodied by their actors, drawing viewers to them, even if their deeds were unacceptable) in the performance. “Henry’s Father” exists w/ a name or a face. He’s a nameless, faceless jerk, and the audience may place any personal associations of ways in which they’ve been badly treated by similar upon him. In their mind’s eye he can wear the face of any person who ever hurt or disappointed them. He’s not REAL. He becomes an easy self-insert (not of self, but of ‘villain’).
“Henry’s Father” exists solely in some lies Emma tells Henry and a few lines dropped to Snow. In things the notoriously tight-lipped non-sharing Emma is willing to give out, all colored by both her own emotional walls, and also her anger toward his abandonment—the only emotion about him she seems willing to put out there. (And nothing at the time is inserted that would cause anyone to doubt Emma’s reliability as narrator of this.)
Without an actor to portray him at the time, it leaves viewers with a one-sided opinion of him. Which leaves the show in future having to dig themselves out of the hole they allowed to be dug, and try now not to just WIN viewers over to Neal, but now to WIN THEM BACK after having estranged them from him in the first place.
No small task.As for a full episode devoted to showing the character’s original motivations? We got a few nice flashbacks with Baelfire (long before he met Emma, of course), but never a full episode devoted to showing Neal Cassidy’s original motivations for leaving Emma (his act of villainy), or even detailing more specifically how the act of abandoning her was talked-through and worked-out with August.
We got no flashbacks of Baefire after Neverland and before Emma. We never saw him change his name, never learned of any other forces at work on him that caused him to choose the way he chose.
We got no script-based justification (much less an entire ep’s worth) for the decision he made to leave Emma on a show THAT’S ALL ABOUT JUSTIFICATION, all about actions and the motivations for those actions causing us to view them differently.
And this from two writers/producers/showrunners who as much as said that of all choices/actions in the universe they created, Neal’s was the most essential, THE MOST JUSTIFIED.
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"I offended you with my opinion? Ha, you should hear the ones I keep to myself".
Our show has always been about family. Love is our franchise but most of our love has been about families coming together.
https://oncepodcast.com/forums/topic/ew-elsa-and-annas-small-screen-adventure-july-17-2014/#post-277648 I need depressed whatever shark. Are. You. Kidding. Me.
Lets not forget about how Frozen arc will be about people dont give up on the ones they love. Really? Are you joking? bet this will be all about believe that Regina and Rumple deserve another chance of being happy bc in the end they are very good people, but they simply dont try to fight to bring the one person that needed a happy ending with his family, bc they simply gave up on him.
Also, i must say that Eddie should not be allow to talk, bc he gives away everything( he hinted hook was here to stay, that Neal would be like graham, CS), at least he confirmed what OUAT is now: “THIS IS REALLY EXPENSIVE FAN FICTION AT THE END OF THE DAY”.
"I offended you with my opinion? Ha, you should hear the ones I keep to myself".
The only think that makes sense, is the baby bison, puck, neal whale, hettie and nelson. They are our pride and make us so happy.
"I offended you with my opinion? Ha, you should hear the ones I keep to myself".
Oh. And…if they do a Frozen spin-off. Mockery. I will NEVER cease mocking anything these two do, but a Frozen spin off. COME ON.
I dont even know what to say anymore, the more i know about what will happen next and let me tell you is not bc i look for spoilers like before,( i would say that the persons i follow on twiter speak, on the fb group as well and on tumblr those persons that dont tag things dont help), but like i was saying the more i know about S4 and whatever surrounds the show , the more i get angry, although i must confess, that i sort of accept that nothing will change and mostly that im like whatever* needed @ranisha shark whatever gif, but cant find it, on this mumerous pages*, nothing surprise me anymore about this, well wrong, the amount of stupidity does surprise me, bc it grows each day and i thought it couldnt get biger than already was.
"I offended you with my opinion? Ha, you should hear the ones I keep to myself".
Do we have baby pics yet? I need baby pics. Like NOW.
No rush, though 
Check Twitter because CWL posted a pic earlier today. Adorable baby bison is ADORABLE!!!!!
*hides in the Sad Tent after reading the Schmacky head canon because it’s SO true* 
yes baby bison is so cute.
*i hide in the tent after reading about the trolls/network /disney latest idea, just one thing to say:” is all about the money”*
"I offended you with my opinion? Ha, you should hear the ones I keep to myself".
Just saw pics of our new family menber she is so cute. Now i want her and puck together pics, that will be the best reunion ever, i mean, will be on 1st place of puck reunions, being the second one Puck and RG, that will also be a great reunion.
"I offended you with my opinion? Ha, you should hear the ones I keep to myself".
Congrats, Lauren!!! Hope your little one arrived without too much trouble.
Phee, that sucks. @Rainbow, are you SURE she’s not related to Henry? I think not, but we need to ask Lauren. Ok, there is a chance that she is related to henry;)
"I offended you with my opinion? Ha, you should hear the ones I keep to myself".
