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Is is just me, or does the editing of that clip look really choppy? I assume it’s probably twice the length we see here.

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So many post to wake up to! For a moment I was worried something happened this morning, then I realized that this is Nealfire we’re talking about. There’s never anything new. 🙁

Usually when we’re in the home stretch of a season, I have mixed emotions of “I can’t wait to see the next ep” and “but I don’t want to run out of eps because then we have to wait months for more.” But right now I’m just ready for the season to be over so I can properly evaluate whether or not this story is a lost cause.

I agree. A&E keep going about the larger storyline/context, so I’m willing to pretend that I give them the benefit of the doubt until the end of the season, but in reality I’m waiting for the whole thing to unravel in their faces. Or maybe an implosion. Something terrible and dramatic would give me an awful lot of contented closure, (ie. they make one really stupid decision in the finale that unites ALL the fans in anger). I’d be down for that. And no, once I’ve been betrayed I don’t have any shame in wanting the whole thing to burn.

#TEAMPBB

Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison

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Sneaks in for reasons::::::

Sneaks back out in a flash::::::

I second this a bazillion times!

Also,

http://raye-minamino.tumblr.com/post/83056349109

Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison

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I am increasingly feeling like the closer we are to the subject here, the harder it is to have the simple hope that would be so easy if we were more detached. Maybe I should have kept resisting the fanning…

You must continue to fanbase with us. We insist. If you stop there may be … consequences… 😉

Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison

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*shuffles up to bar*

I’ll take whatever is strongest. With a twist.

Also cookies.

If I drank (which I don’t) I would totally get drunk with you at the bar, stuff my face with cookies and start ranting uncontrollably under the bar. It would be an awesome time.

Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison

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I’m the person who punches the tickets. “Welcome aboard. Here’s your seat”

::hug:: Well, if you need anything to get you through the trip, come find me at the bar. I’ve got you covered.

Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison

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Didn’t mean to bring anyone down with that tweet. I guess I just never had any hopes or expectations about his return in the first place. Granted some theories sounded plausibel, even to me, but I don’t know, after those initial tweets by MRJ it felt over and done with.

I only had the minute amount of hope myself (which hasn’t changed actually), but the more I see stuff like this the more convinced I am that there is a bigger picture from BTS that we don’t know, and I find it maddening. While I’m not the Conductor of the Conspiracy Train, I’m like the bartender in first class or something (I don’t know any other train jobs…).

Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison

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If these few tweets are the only actual acknowledgement that he’s gone for good (I’m still angry and confused that we never got an exit interview, or tweets from the other cast), then I’m all aboard the Conspiracy Train (not that I wasn’t already. I mean seriously, what is this $#!?).

Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison

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@dontstopbelievin Yes please! I’d like to see how they try to defend themselves, since season 3 has been full of incidents and plot points that really don’t feel earned to me (and season 2 was just devoid of anything worth earning, save Manhattan). Any real info would be great (since I kind of feel like I’m talking out my butt most of the time anyway).

Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison

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Congrats Heather! That’s awesome news!

It’s an interesting question but it’s also wholly subjective, isn’t it, because everyone–including all the various writers–have their own interpretation of the characters themselves.

I agree. I also think that it’s a difficult question to answer without having the entire OUAT picture already presented for analysis. Right now we’re making judgments and evaluations based on what we know of the story thus far, which gives value to whenever A&E insist we need to see the whole story first before telling them if we like something or not. I can understand what they’re getting at, but at the same time one of the few things they have consistently shown us is that they DON’T remember their own story anymore, or have written the narrative in such a way that only the most dedicated viewer will remember specific events and plot points from episodes or even seasons ago. Things get brought up and forgotten, and when things are left hanging like that it instills little confidence that whatever is coming up will ever properly address big incidents, big deaths, in a way that makes us understand them and better than we do now. And if the answer to a question is “BECAUSE PLOT”, then I would argue they haven’t told the story very well in the first place.

PLOT has taken over honest character development which is why the characters are not only coming across as OOC but also as bipolar as they keep changing their minds each and every scene.

I feel like we’re missing all these little character development moments, things that would justify when characters start to do things we would otherwise consider to be OOC. What else happened that led up to Neal wanting to use Dark Magic? Was there a conversation he had with someone, or a previous course of action he had already been down that left THIS as his only course of action? We don’t get enough time with certain characters, and most of them don’t give us enough exposition for us to really know what they’re thinking vs. what we’re being shown visually to make up for it. Obviously A&E and the writing team think there are enough perfectly reasonable explanations for what the characters are doing, but they keep neglecting to SHOW US. We keep having to make it up for ourselves and it ruins out suspension of disbelief.

I have more to say on this, but it’s probably part of the meta I started hashing out last night.

Co-Mayor of Sad Town | Twin of Co-Mayor of Sad Town | #HopeforRogueBison

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