Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27138802-20151030150239/@comment-27138802-20151030155231

Emma's emotional response to saving Regina would be quite different from let's say...if Grumpy was in that position. There wouldn't be some grand speech about it. I'm just shocked that JMO was on a campaign an emotional payout moment between those two characters when Emma at the beginning of Season 4 declared that she will help Regina with her happy ending when she just gave a conference about how "women should support each other." But it is not surprising since in a conference of feminism, she said "men have it hard too" (wtf?!)

But anyway, Jane Epsenson actually admitted that they did intentionally queerbait in season 1 but I definitely agree that Swan Queen was not something that Adam/Eddy planned "intentionally".

I completely agree that OUAT does not do subtle well at all. I agree with your last statement, but its interesting that people only have the argument when it comes to same sex relationships. Since Snowing and Rumbelle were already a thing, so why do we need OQ or CS. It'll be something unique to have a strong friendship between men and women rather than one of the fifty romantic relationships on the show. Platonic "love" should be a thing too. See what I did there?

Plus, I think people are forgetting that there is such a thing as "bisexual". All I knows is that even most of SWEN know that SQ will not be romantic canonically, A&E still to this day is trying to queerbait to string as much viewers as possible for their dying show. It shouldn't even be needed since they felt they did their quota now that they announced that there will be a LGBT character, like some character that will have 10 scenes for 2 minutes that won't be related to the main arc of Dark Swan is revolutionary lol.

But yeah, Regina/Emma have the most organic relationship on the show. They went from outright enemies, to reluctant allies, to becoming friends, to feeling betrayed with bringing Marian back to the dead, to Emma sacrificing her soul for Regina (speech didn't include SwanTown) to Regina seeing the good in Emma despite being a D (Hook didn't) and now they are now having problems again.

Not some irate that left everyone for dead and had a change of heart and decided that he loved Emma 3 episodes later. Or giving an relationship a go after seeing a tattoo.

The writing overall on the show is problematic, but the best thing going is those two leading ladies since it is unintentional. I wouldn't even want SQ to be canon. Have you seen how the writers write their romances? lol. No thank you.