3, 4, 8, 11, 16
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3. Which twist melted your brain?
No question about this one. The fact that Hook was a Dark One in season 5 was definitely the twist that shocked me the most. I totally didn’t see that one coming!
4. How would you fix your least favorite character arc or storyline?
Okay, so I would say my one of my least favorite storylines was the CS drama in season 6. (Specifically the whole sequence from finding out Killian killed David’s father, all the way to Emma being convinced he’d left her.)
Why I didn’t like it:
(under the cut because this could get long, lol.)
1. It was pointless drama for drama’s sake. It did nothing to move their storyline, and it did nothing to move their characters. It was pure and simple the writers tossing one last roadblock at them before their wedding because…*shrug*
2. David’s Dad Killian murdering David’s father in the first place made no sense. He was unquestionably a villain at the time, and he did terrible, indefensible things. I fully acknowledge that, but aside from that incident, he always had a reason for it–maybe a bad reason, but a reason. He always had that sense of honor and good form. In this instance….he killed Robert because he witnessed Killian killing the kings guards and “dead men tell no tales.” Um…since when would Killian care if people knew he killed kings guards? Wouldn’t the news getting out even be a good thing for a pirate? Having the reputation of ruthlessness would make pirating that much easier.
3. Emma I get Emma being upset that Killian kept the murder from her out of fear. They do need to communicate with each other and let the other help them carry their burdens. BUT giving his ring back was a step too far…it was also a little bit hypocritical given the fact that she spent the whole first half of the season keeping the prophecy of her death from him.
4. Killian No way Killian decides to just leave, even to better himself, without even telling Emma. Absolutely not going to happen. Writers, what even was that?!!
5. Emma again Okay, so they live in Storybrooke where there’s a new villain every other day. This happened at the time when there was a very specific villain out there targeting Emma and her happiness. That being said, when Killian disappears, you’re telling me the possibility of foul play never even entered Emma’s head? She immediately jumped to “welp, guess he left me….and all his stuff…without a word. Guess I better put his stuff in the shed because he’s clearly never coming back.”? Come on writers! I know Emma has abandonment issues, but she’s smarter than that.
6. Everyone else. Okay, Emma was emotional. Maybe she couldn’t think rationally in the heat of the moment and she jumped to the worst possible conclusion. But what’s everyone else’s excuse? Are you really telling me that after everything they’d all been through together, after Killian literally died for her, after he came back from the dead for her, that they just take him leaving at face value and don’t even consider the possibility something else is at play? If that’s really true, Killian deserves way better from all of them.
What I would have done differently
1. If Killian had to be responsible for David’s dad’s death, it would be for a more believable reason. Maybe King George hired him to be an assassin in exchange for a weapon of some sort to kill the Dark One.
2. When Emma finds Killian burning his memories, she insists they have a real conversation. She listens to him, really listens when he explains why he was trying to burn his memories. It wasn’t just because he was afraid of what she and her parents would think. It was also because he couldn’t stand the man he was back then. They could have then had a very important conversation about their need to stop hiding things from each other, and they could have worked through his self loathing (or made an appointment with Archie to work through it.)
3. That’s…it. No Killian leaving. No Emma thinking he left her for good. No family and friends jumping to the worst conclusions. Just Emma and Killian working through their problems like mature adults in a healthy, loving relationship, and then making up and being sickeningly lovey-dovey about it.
8. What are your feelings about the show’s concept of “true love” and/or TLK?
I think it was inconsistent. In the first season, TL was shown as something rare and special, a once in a lifetime kind of love, and something that only a few couples ever got. By season 6, it was like Oprah. “And you get a TLK! And you get a TLK! And you get a TLK!” No longer was it rare. Sometimes it wasn’t even treated as exclusive. And when we get a rainbow shockwave TLK from Zelena and Hades–when he was basically just using her….I mean, come on! (And don’t even get me started on Brennan Jones sharing TLK with his nurse…when they “met” while he was in a sleeping curse!)
11.Which character do you wish they had stopped “developing”?
Rumple. He was a fantastic villain. He could be truly terrifying and evil beyond words. If he’d come back in season 4 as a full fledged villain, and stayed that way until the end, if he’d been the final villain to defeat to end the series, that could have been amazing. As it was, seasons 4 and 5 contained waaaaayyyyy too much Rumple whining and ostensibly “trying” to be a better person, while still continuing to do terrible things, and then justifying it with terrible excuses. He did decide to embrace the villain thing in season 6, but then he suddenly….was redeemed? That happened way too fast, and was utterly unsatisfying to me.
16. Worst casting decision?
Hm…there are two I can think of that just make me scratch my head.
1. Michael Raymond James as adult Bae/Neal. There’s just….nothing about him that seems like child Bae–in either looks or temperament. or
2. The kid who played young Pinocchio. Seriously, that kid didn’t even remotely look like adult August. Not in the slightest.
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