The Savior is the main character... shocking...
Emma/Jmo stealing the show... sure... like Katniss/Jlaw stealing The hunger games, right? Or Tris stealing Divergent. Or Harry stealing Harry Potter. Or Frodo stealing The lord of the rings...
I just don't get how anyone can say something like that, complains about Emma's focus ON HER OWN SHOW.
One of the things I always liked about OUAT is that all the main characters have big roles in the story, all of them get at one point the spotlight and the time for the viewer to see why they do what they do, even (especially) they villains. The villains/antiheroes on this show are generally my faves and I love they have a big focus, but no matter how much I love Rumple or Regina, this is Emma's story- she is the savior- she is the main character- she is and will always be the ultimate hero (a gray hero but a hero anyway).
If the writers want to make a season about her relationship with her son, go for it. If the writers want to make a season about her relationship with her parents and her concept of home, go for it. If the writers want to make a season about her friendships, go for it. If the writers want to make a season about her love life and make it epic, GO FOR IT.
Sirius Black is my favorite character on the HP saga. In hp movies Gary Oldman is one of the best things ever (like Alan Rickman or Maggie Smith or Ralph Fiennes or Helena Bonham Carter or Michael Gambon or Jason Isaacs or many of the actors in this cast that are prestigious, talented and multiawarded actors). Do you see or expect one of them being mad about Daniel Radcliffe getting "all the focus"? No. Because is delusional. He is the main character, the hero, they all knew it.
OUAT is not called "Emma Swan" but it's her story. Like THG is not called "Katniss Everdeen" but is her story. The same to Frodo in LotR (do you have complains about Bilbo -or Gandalf- being get behind?). Why in Once is different?
Again, I love Ouat gives all characters an important focus and I want that to continue that way. But if the writers have to sideline a character for the sake of Emma’s stories, they will do it. The fact that people hesitate to take Emma as the main heroine should be sufficient proof for everyone to be satisfied with the focus and screen time the other actors and characters are given.
Stop trying to put the actors against each other, stop trying to make assumptions about their relationship with their bosses and workmates, stop with the idea they secretly hate their jobs. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. Any way- talk about them as if you knew them and as if it were a fact that they hate Ouat and what their bosses are doing with it, it's rude. And what's the difference? A&E are not going to change the route of what they have on mind for their show. Like it or not, they rule. They don't write the story around an actor. They're influenced, yes, they take advance of their actors' skills and popularity, too- but they write what they think is a better story and what they think it fits with the main themes of the show.
You have critics? Valid, just can we everyone try to make it about the story and characters, not about the cast relationships? I have critics too. Nothing is perfect, nobody is. But we don’t know NOTHING about their lives, and even if we knew it, it’s just inappropriate use that to throw shit on Ouat.
You hate all this? You hate the show? Okay. There is still people who enjoys it. Why do you waste so much time of you life in something you hate so much? I really don't get it. It's even unhealthy for you. Go and find something you love, you're gonna be so much happier.