Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20151029202955/@comment-1916997-20151031181203

Simmino44 wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Simmino44 wrote: Arctucrus wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: CadoDoan wrote: I don't think 4B was a mess. I do know that this underworld thing is going to be a crap. I mean this once upon a time. Fairytales and legends. Not greek gods and their complex relationships. Now I am even considering to quit the show. The show is getting more and more ridicilous. God knows what nonsense will present in Season 6 If you want to quit watching, go right ahead.... no one is stopping you.

Except, that Greek mythology was woven into the fabric of OUaT since day 1. Prince Charming battled a siren in S1, while Snow White killed Medusa in S3. We were even intoduced to Poseidon the Lord of the Seas, last season. OUaT is about modernizing fairytales and legends, by giving these classic charaters depth and complex realationships. It does not get more classic and complex, than Greek mythology.

Stop assuming that we are only going to see the Underworld. That is probably just the bridge between the two arcs. The overall theme of S5 seems to be, the unpayed price of magic. Similar, to how S4  had Operation Mongoose.

The only dead character that was confirmed, for an episode was Cora. She has made an appearance in every season, thus far. So it should not come as a surprised, that she would reappear in the 100th episode. Thank you for this. I don't understand why a lot of people are freaking out over this, when it is one of the earliest confirmed stories on the show. It appeared even earlier than Charming and the Siren, with King Midas in 106. If people didn't see Greek Myths coming from a mile away, I don't know what to tell them. People "freaking out over it" and it being "one of the earliest confirmed stories on the show" are not mutually exclusive.

Of course we saw it coming from a mile away, we're not stupid. We just feel that it's very shoehorned into the show, that it doesn't fit, that these things don't mix, that the stories ONCE adverts itself to have are entirely different from a freaking Mythology, etc. And a lot of us have felt this way from the beginning.

For me, King Midas and his storyline was the only storyline/character that didn't feel absolutely shoehorned in. It fits in with traditional "classic stories," like the rest of what's on the show. But everything else has felt terribly shoehorned in to me -- like it doesn't fit. A show about fairy tales and other classic stories, if you ask me, definitely does not need Gods and Demi-Gods and the like on it, and considering that that's like 90% of Greek Mythology, it simply doesn't fit. That's just my opinion.

Now, as far as having seen them "coming a mile away," as you said, again, me personally, of course I always had the thought in the back of my mind that this story was, indeed, yes, very possibly something that could come down the line. That doesn't stop me, however, from hoping that they don't do it, simply because it doesn't feel right to me.

I've kept up with the show thus far because I've largely/overall enjoyed it, and because the Greek Myths haven't been literally everywhere and all up in my face like they would be with a Greek Myths arc. Now that that's coming (or seems to be), however, for the first time, I'm seriously beginning to consider stopping keeping up with the show.

Gods and Demigods would just add way, way too much power to the show in a very condensed set of characters. In other words, there's individuals coming on with too much individual power. This seriously unbalances everything, and kind of cheapens every arc that's come so far that has had to do with magic, because now there's going to be characters that could just undo everything or whatever with the lift of a finger.

That's just one of many reasons I don't like the idea.

But anyways, I think I'm rambling. I hope I've gotten my point across.

OH. One other thing -- And I've said all this without adding on what everyone else has said; Like how every time we get new characters, we've been desensitized to not invest in them, because once their story is over, they most likely won't show up again; Or how 4B was an absolute disaster and this seems to be following that path; Or how 4A will turn out to be arguably the only thing that felt more shoehorned into the show than this, and how badly that turned out; Or any comment about Disney and how the show is venturing too far into Disneyland (no pun intended) by adapting too many of the classic Disney stories as they are into the show, when originally the entire point of the show was to retell these classic stories in a different, fun, creative, and all-inclusive manner.

So. Tl;dr It's not that we didn't see it coming, but yes we are freaking out anyways. The two aren't mutually exclusive. This arc has "TERRIBLE IDEA" written all over it in our opinion, and those're the reasons why.

Feel like I'm forgetting something now but oh well, if it comes back to me I'll add it. Finale someone understand something. Once Upon a Time is about FAIRYTALES, like SNOW WHITE, HANSEL AND GRETEL, JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, SLEEPING BEAUTY or LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. NOT ABOUT MYTHS, like HERCULES, THE MINOTAUR or THE GOLDEN FLEECE. If you want Hades, you have to watching Once Upon a Myth. Everything wich isn't a fairytale or a classic story, MUST NOT APPEAIR. THEY ALREADY SHOW US MANY AWFUL THINGS (like the Frozen arc, the worst idea of the century) BUT NOTHING IS MORE HORRIBLE THAN MYTHS. Do you imagine? Snow White who has a tea in company of Helen of Troy or Aphrodite?!?! Maybe with Percy Jackson!! Are you kidding me?! And, in the past there were only little references of mythology: King Midas is transported in a medieval world, and Pandora's Box isn't the same box of the mythology. Poseidon is based more on Triton, his name is only a silly little reference. The Siren is the Lady of the Lake, fools! You can downplay the numerous references to Greek Myths all you want, but they are still there. Furthermore, there are many stories on this show that are not fairy tales (Frankenstein anyone?), and besides is there really any difference between the Greek Myths and a fairy tale? Like if someone told you they were going to read you a fairy tale, and read you Jason and the Golden Fleece (and you didn't know about Greek Mythology), would you really know it was a Greek myth, and not a fairy tale? I'd venture to say that you wouldn't. You know why, because Greek Myths are basically antient fairy tales. As a child I was obsessed by myths, my dear, so I know a lots of things about Greek Mythology. And you can't tell me that fairytales is another word for saying myths. A myth and a fairytale are very different things, with a different function and a different structure. I know alot about Greek Mythology as well. And yes, I understand it was originally a religion, whereas fairy tales never were. I still see similarities between the two though. But I'm interested, what do you see as the different function and different structure?