Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20171216015812/@comment-33696434-20171216202213

(I posted this on an article on a site where people kept tryna ship Drizella and Henry, which was annoying. But I also included my opinions on the episode, and wanted to share them. And yeah, that timeline is a doozy. 23 years old Robin, but Henry isn't even 30 until the curse happens. Like huh? We need to know. Like is their farm on a 3rd world? A place out of time like how Belle and Rumple had theirs?)

I really liked seeing a new villain theme, not just one or two evil people to contend with, at a time; but a whole coven of them. As to people shipping Henry and Drizella, it's just another Catherine Nolan type thing, that she orchestrated herself. How can you think they have chemistry, when she's the one who poisoned him, to kill him? We don't see Henry and Jacinda's love building much, because it's only the first season of this reboot. It was the same for Snow White and Charming in the beginning. The first time we see them together, he's kissing her awake, and then there's suddenly a baby in a tree. It look seasons to fully flesh out their past, and help them fall for each other again in Storybrooke. Heck, David made her the "other woman" and an adulterer before the curse was broken. They were drawn to each other without realizing why, or any real relationship building. So it makes sense that this would happen again, with Henry and Jacinda. They have a daughter together, and don't know it. And again, the only person who thinks they need to be together, no matter what, is a precocious kid with a story book.

As for the whole Gothel x Anastasia thing, I feel like Ana is a little too naïve, probably because of how young she was when she half-died. Gothel has no magic here, she was told that she was the only one here with any. And she heard Gothel say that she now has Drizzie's magic. What can Gothel do to her to keep her in that room? Not a darn thing. It's obvious, that before she fell in that ice, Gothel did something to her. Or even as she cast her spell to preserve her. Maybe in her dreams. It's likely that Gothel broke the ice on purpose too.

I'm just sad that we have to wait until March for it to come back. I really like this season. I think too many people were expecting to have all the established story building that we had in the last version, But that took years. And we're not going with the same people. The only thing that seems to be the same, in these different worlds, is Neverland. These are new stories, new people, for the most part, and it's gonna take time. And I'm quite sure, that it'll end up just as good as the previous. A show we can be proud of.