[ SECRET POST #2893 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2893 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno about Supernatural, because I don't watch, but just from fandom osmosis I've picked up that all the mains in Supernatural are pretty much on par with most of the characters in OUAT-- they've all been subjected to so much awful shit that it's kinda surprising they function at all. Archie Hopper should be the richest guy in Storybrooke by an order of magnitude because everyone should be twitchy balls of PTSD, including everyone from random Storybrooke citizen #496 to the dwarves to Henry.

Belle should've had some serious knock-on effects from being imprisoned for 4+ years pre-curse and the 28+ years the curse was in effect, unless she got a Teflon-coated psyche as a fairy christening gift.

Rumple hasn't been sane since he took on the dagger's curse and arguably not before; he burned down a castle as a garden variety human to save his kid from the draft. Then he spent 200+ years hunting for said kid, found his kid, thought his kid had died, had about an hour where everything was peachy, and then committed simultaneous suicide and patricide to save his kid and girlfriend. Then he spent 6 months dead, only to be resurrected at the cost of his kid's life, absorb his kid in a bid to save him, go crazy(er) as a result, and then spend the next few months as a slave without even the autonomy to refuse to eat, during which his kid died again and he was kept in a cage except when he was being used as a weapon or made to "date" his captor.

Honestly, he's not being shown as traumatized enough. Bae was his life; if the writers intend Rumpelstiltskin's actions this season to be the result of everything that happened last season, they're doing a shitty job; it's more likely they needed to demonize him fast to make him this season's big bad.

I don't like Regina much but her sob story is almost as awful, given she was tag teamed by Rumple and Cora, so it's not just the guys that get gratuitous angst. Hook, I dunno. His was more like brother's death= instant asshole. I think where OUAT's writers go wrong is in framing all that angst as justification rather than simply explanation. Sure, the villains' lives sucked. But so did lots of the heroes', and they didn't become bullies or rapists or murderers. And having the villains suddenly become "good" because some good people are willing to bang them is just weird and gross. I wanna see genuine apologies, offers to help their victims, real remorse and repentance and no more doing shady shit for expedience's sake, which all of the big three are still doing.