Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20160229060949/@comment-25926288-20160229121207

On the topic of OOC, I deem that characters are what you set them up to be and what they do in a realm of likelihood. Characters aren't people. Simple as that. They don't think and get to have random spasms of character choices. If Snow randomly started to kill the children of people that wronged her, that would be OOC, even if the writers wanted to use that for a plot. Characters change and transition, but they aren't prone to spastic actions. Snow in Swan song giving up so easily is either one of two things: Out of character since she tend sto fight to the end or a slight regression as Snow was sort of pessimistic in Lost Girl in flashback, but that was to help save lives (which in Swan Song, she wasnt at all doing).

Characters have sets of traits and development, but unlike us, they don't go out of their path to do something for no reason.

Hook's change wasn't as sudden as people make it appear, but it does coincide with his character. Hook was about two things: Love and revenge...obesession, sort of. Now, if you get into the nitty gritty, Hook's transition wasnt that smooth, but within the realm od possibility. Hook was a noble jerk, then a infatuated jerk, and even a confused jerk, and then was Emma's lovesick puppy dog. It can happen, but Hook was a jerk for all of season 2 and 3a and then.....

On the topc of "being sheep", I generally accept what the writers say, but at times it shows that what they mean doesn't clealrly show onscreen (otherwise, we'd probably not ahve so many explanations). For example, season 4a, with Rumple's fall into cartooy villainy. They said he's an evil man and then followed up with PTSD and stuff, but it didn't come across like that onscreen. It's like he randomly become evil after finding a hat. I used the term "being sheep" is because you're not suppose to aggree with everything ever, which I'm sure we all have our differences and that's fine. I say Rumple's transition to evil was a mess in 4a and you may say it was good, but the writers (rarely) would ever say it wasn't good, because it's their show.