[ SECRET POST #3231 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3231 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What in canon do you ignore?

[(Anonymous)]

Emma Swan is single and good friends with Neal Cassidy, who was successfully separated from Rumple without either dying (in Rumple's case, again.) Regina, Hook, and Rumple are all in therapy with Archie, who is almost as rich as Gold and Midas put together because he's the town's only therapist if you don't count Hannibal Lecter. Regina and Hook are kind of seeing each other and working on consent issues and taking responsibility. Rumple is in couple's therapy with Belle and on meds for anxiety. Belle is working on the claustrophobia caused by 30+ years in a cell. Zelena was so desperate for a different life she imagined she was Regina's half-sister and Rumple's prodigy/lover, but she was killed without ever making it to Storybrooke.

Henry spends three nights a week with Emma, three with Regina, and one with Neal, who is staying with Rumple and Belle. Neal has so far taught Mulan all the words to "Be a Man" and "A Girl Worth Fighting For," and Mulan is working up the courage to teach Aurora and Philip one word, namely "polyamory." Marian, Roland, and season 2 Robin Hood are very happy together.

...Yeah, I've hated canon OUAT since Hook went from villain to love interest in the five minutes between seasons 2 and 3, but it's a fun world to play in.

Re: What in canon do you ignore?

[(Anonymous)]

OMG, I love you, Nonny. Do you have any fanfic of this AU?

I've finally learned what "hatewatching" is from OUAT. Your reality sounds infinitely more appealing.

Re: What in canon do you ignore?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT--Some day I will have time and motivation at the same time. I haven't watched OUAT since Neal died, but there's so much scope for exploration that the show won't bother with because plot=mcguffin hunts and contrived relationship drama. I'm mostly a Rumbeller, but I'm here for single Emma, SwanFire, Mulan/Philip/Aurora, Frozen Swan, whatever Emma/Lily is called, and sort-of SwanQueen and SwanFireQueen but only after Regina raping Graham is dealt with, which leaves fanfic because it never will be on the show. I would've been all over Regina and Hook as recovering evil friends-with-benefits. Watching Hook's onscreen redemption made me understand my poor math teachers; I wanted to grab the writers by the collar and yell "ffs show your work!" at them. And I miss when OUAT was about family and Storybrooke felt like an actual town, not just Regina, Rumple, Hook, Emma, and Snowing with a straggling handful of extras that sometimes includes Belle and Henry.

Re: What in canon do you ignore?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT (is that the appropriate tag?)

As much as I loved the concept of the show's first season and saw so much potential for innovative storytelling in store for the later seasons, I have grown to hate the half season story arcs and the blatant pandering toward Disney's market. I think that the writers backed away from doing anything to challenge the actors (unless it's to see if the actors can deliver some of their lines with a straight face). As an example, I think that Regina and Charming should have flirted with an affair during S2, scandalizing all of Storybrooke as they protected Henry from Charming's "dad" while Emma and Snow were in the Enchanted Forest. The storytelling has gone downhill from there and is geared toward titillating Disney fans instead of crafting engaging tales and challenging interactions.

I think that the franchise of OUAT would have been stronger if there had been an avoidance of the Frozen storyline to emphasize the Ice Queen tale. Brave should have been left out completely. Some attention should have been paid to the actual timeline of the show as opposed to the seasonal time. With all the time losses and skipped/hiatus gaps, Emma is perhaps THE most fickle character in the universe.

Honestly I watch it because of Robert Carlyle. I'd rather watch him doing bad television than not have the opportunity to see him at all. I might wish that OUAT would reset to the end of Season 1 and have a mulligan but I think that it won't happen. Do you expect a season 6, based on what the show is doing now?