Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26116863-20150512000952/@comment-26033121-20150824225338

Gheather14 wrote: Marissaloohoo wrote: WhatTheEvenBelle wrote: I really love Belle and I really love Rumple. I also love Rumbelle. I usually don't care much about ships, but I really shipped them in the early episodes. "Skin Deep" remains my favorite of the series, their reunion in the first season finale is a favorite scene, and they had cute and tragic moments all throughout the second and third season. Since the dagger swapping incident, that ship has been extremely butchered though. Very much so. They have really been ruined as a couple. I still love them though; I love their shared scenes, whether they're good or not. I don't like how they've been handled, but I do like them, and I also want them to be together. I acknowledge how poorly handled it all is, and I don't even like wanting them together. It's complicated, really. I don't want them together, but I do. I agree. I don't dislike Rumbelle, I dislike Adam & Eddy for lazy and WILDLY inconsistent writing. The storyline they gave Rumbelle in S4 is uncharacteristic of both parties to the extent that I can't even consider it canon. Yeah, that's exactly how I feel about Rumbelle as my favorite ship on the show. The way A&E have written them this past season was so annoying. It's like they regret the fact that Rumbelle ever got so popular, and are trying to milk us with shiny new Rumbelle OUAT baubles to apilogize for their poor writing of our favorite couple. Then, they cater to the CS shippers, and but give us too much angst. I mostly love them as a couple, not because of the way they're written, but because Emilie De Ravin as Belle and Robert Carlyle as Rumple give so much depth to their poorly written characters and their crumbling relationship, even if A&E refuse to write them better. Thank God fanfiction exists. The only reason I've still stuck with OUAT after 3B is because of its amazing main cast, but the writing has gone downhill to me since S4.