47, 33, 29, 2, I also want to read your salt!
2.Which storyline do you pretend never happened?
Ha. Lots. Certainly the Wish Emma bullshit. I do have a vague idea of a version of Wish Emma in my mind, but it’s certainly far from the crap the show tried to pull. It’s obvious that at that point the writers themselves didn’t give a crap about characterization, since they kept jumping from “it’s real” to “it’s not real and it’s not how Emma would’ve grown up if she had loving parents” after fans naturally complained about it, so why should I? And I admit the only reason I haven’t fully deleted it from my mind and instead built a more rational, far less problematic depiction of her is because I fell in love with Wish Hook and wanted to make the Wish Realm make a bit more sense in my mind.
But also the Split Queen arc. I couldn’t be bothered enough with it to watch it fully, let alone start fixing it in my mind. Also Liam being a mass murderer, the whole Rumpelstiltskin/Hook friendship thing, Emma becoming... that in season 6, Henry’s mission to destroy magic in the s5 finale, most possibly Robin I’s death... off the top of my mind. Heh. It’s funny that all of them are from s5 on.
29. Which character did the show eventually make you hate?
Rumpelstiltskin. He was an amazing, complex villain, with lots of interesting dynamics with pretty much everyone - Emma, Regina, Cora, Killian, Baelfire, Henry, heck, even David... and while I think he could have joined the “heroes” side as the kinda reluctant anti-hero... which is probably why I enjoyed the Lacey storyline so much. If his love interest wasn’t the true Belle but someone like Lacey... you could have had this not-exactly-evil but also not-exactly-super-heroic couple, who would help the “heroes” every now and then without ping-pong-ing between Big Bad and Hero of the Day. But they had to remove all the grey-ness of his character and so many things that made him him, and have Belle nearly threaten him into turning into the good guy he can’t be... and eventually had not one (Belle), not two (Baelfire), not three (Alice) but four (Wish Killian) characters turn into his morality pets, with very little concern about the final development and resolution of those characters’ storylines.
And because he killed Milah twice and the show not only completely forgot about her, but also made Killian be thankful to him. Like, how’s that fair?
33. Worst CGI?
LOL it’s easier to answer which is the best CGI, since it’s that rare in the show, haha (and yes I have an answer to that and it’s Alice’s Troll). The garden gnome in 7x07 is despicable and only listening to Killian singing saves the scene for me, the scene in 2x06 where Anton is holding Emma in his hand is also so cringe-worthy...
47. Bonus: Rant about something
August didn’t deserve any of his later fame, and I fucking hate that Henry was supposed to have “borrowed” his motorcycle. That asshole owed Emma 20 thousand bucks. He wasn’t a friend of Emma’s. He used her, abandoned her, convinced her first love to send her to jail... and at the end he went like “Please believe in magic or I’ll turn into wood!” ... yeah, suits you right, fucker. Giving him a personal time bomb that pushed him to have Emma believe, when he barely gave a fuck about her before that was probably the worst writing decision they could have done to his character... add to that the fact that he sent her to jail and stole her money, the fact that he was later called “Emma’s only friend”, or whatever the fuck was that that he was supposed to have done in the flashbacks of 6x11... fuck you. Fuck him. A bit pointless trying to ret-con the character who ruined your protagonist’s life instead of facing the problems of his character directly, but hey, it’s A&E we’re talking about.
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