Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-32713584-20180606060016/@comment-25926288-20180606113943

Lady Junky wrote: OUAT fandom has always been one of the most toxic. That's something well-known now. Pretty much this.

It’s not a season 5 thing, not a season 7 thing. The show has pretty always had this fandom even if certain segments get surges.

There’s conflicts with Disney nostalgia (mostly minor as I find those mostly fickle as only Disney insertion has some major effect on writing). The biggest came with the “ships”. Those essentially wrecked the fandom. Once’s writing might have declined or fluctuated with a trend downward, but thats where I see most people stop watching the show but whatever they envisioned.

I mean, I didn’t like Hook’s major role in season 5 (as even in best case, it was hastily done), but the show wasn’t Once Upon a Hook, just at best, Emma was. I really don’t think anyone that saw these characters as individuals had too much an issue with anything besides the quality of the storylines.

Ex. I found that if you “shipped” Rumbelle, you were more likely to see Rumple and Belle as equal opposites in season 5B and 6, when really Belle was completely in the right as anyone outside could see that they were Jekyll-Hyde righting Rumple to be pathetic but reasonable then next a threatening control freak.

So, I place that mostly on the fandom for such toxicity with ships and their envisioned show and the rest on the writers for cycling through with little nuance and depth and “shiny new toy” syndrome.