Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20130614170253/@comment-6195464-20131014172233

This is my take. You can disagree with me if you want - I'm not gonna get into a debate. This has nothing to do with the gay/straight issue, this has nothing to do with shipping wars. I am extraordinarily frustrated by this "twist" because it was absolutely, one hundred percent -fan dictated-.

You can try to tell me this was the "plan" from the beginning, but if that's the case, why have Phillip at all? Why indicate in season 2 that Mulan was in love with him? And once he was out of the picture, why go rescue him? Why? Because up until a slew of irrate "fans" attacked the writers on Twitter, accusing them of being homophobic, they were -clearly- going for a Mulan/Aurora - PHILLIP arc.

Mulan being a lesbian would have been totally acceptable, if that's what the original intentions for her had been, but they were incredibly clear in the subtext when she first appeared that her heart belonged to Phillip. Now suddenly we're supposed to believe her true love is Aurora?

Are we now going to be subject to Mulan, pining over Aurora all season long? Are they gonna introduce another lesbian character to take Mulan's mind off Aurora? If that's the case, why? So they can say they have a LGBT character on the show, now? Because that's sure what it felt like to me. And as someone else just pointed out - are we supposed to be rooting for Mulan, now? She was about to essentially try and snake Aurora away from Phillip... and the only reason she didn't was because Aurora was pregnant. Her -best friend- Phillip... and she was just gonna walk up and declare her love for his wife ? Yeah... that's super honorable.

This "twist" was a way to appease a loud, volatile fanbase and it was, quite frankly, insulting. It was exactly what I didn't want to see, and that was the suddden transition of a character into homosexuality, for the sake of fulfilling a quota. It's poor writing, has nothing to do with advancing the storyline and cheapened Mulan to the point of making her unlikeable, dishonorable and quite frankly, fickle. Who's she gonna "fall for" next week? Robin Hood? Little John? Emma?

Am I gonna walk away from Once because of this? No. The rest of the show was great last night... but I am extremely sad and disappointed that the writers allowed flack from a fan base to dictate where their storyline went, instead of having confidence in their own ability and directing it where they intended for it to go in the beginning. They said in an article months ago that they wouldn't introduce any form of a love story into the series without having a good reason for it... well, so much for that.

If this keeps up and they continue to allow the fans to determine where the story should go, I don't see much of a future for the series, at all.