Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25491743-20180209181244/@comment-1826156-20180423013945

Eskaver wrote: I’d only give them a point if Alice was flimsy like a house of cards. Alice is a pretty strong character and excellently portrayed.

I think by entitled, it must be shippers or nostalgic Emma fans that must fail to see the decently written character present. Honestly, Emma went pretty downhill post 3 going from “OMG, Regina, let me help!” To “Oh no, precious Killian” (all exaggerated to emphasize point).

I’ll tread carefully as I can but I sometimes worry that Emma was seen as some blank-slate for them to fill in (like Bella Swan was intentionally made). I agree, and the funny thing is, Emma Swan is by no means a blank slate. She came with some pretty heavy baggage. Those types of fans remind me of the Twilight fans that went around making death threats and beating up girls who were not into their ships (I never knew how many of the insane stories to believe.) I loved Emma through the first three seasons and even through much of 4, but after the CS ship took off for real, her character development got pretty bad. I still loved her and she was possibly my favorite character throughout. But, I haven't missed her or her version of Hook. I was done with their story and though I won't mind seeing them again, I feel that the show had to move away from the her and Hook whether it continued or not. Just as Snow and Charming diminished in importance to the story, they needed to as well.

Alice is refreshing, I like that we can't tell what exactly is going on with her, is she autistic in this world? Or is it a side effect of the curse? So far it's been handled well, in my opinion. Not sure where they'll go with it after the curse is broken...hopefully not in an offensive way.

Even though I enjoy her scenes with Margot/Robin, I don't think they have enough charisma together tro have been the next Snow/Charming had the show continued...and Ella/Henry sure the heck don't. (I say that but I've enjoyed their latest scenes a lot!!!)