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ChocolatEyes613 wrote: TVFanatic is usually very pleased with OUaT, which explains why they were so disappointed this season. If you ever  read their Roundtable Roundups (I think, that is what those articles are call), you would get a better picture of what they are talking about.

I have to agree about Jennifer Morrison's acting choices, as the Dark Swan. She was quite good at conveying Emma's descend into Darkness, during the Camelot flashbacks. However, she was terrible as the Dark Swan. Many fans only want to blame the writing, instead of the actors. The writers obviously knew Morrison could not pull off a true villain, and wrote towards she strengths. However, she tried to create something, she clearly is not talented enough to do. I have said this before, the Dark Swan was nothing more than Jennifer Morrison's vanity project to herself. It was pretentious, and unbearable to watch at times. I am always quick to probably disagree with you, but I know very little about JMo. If I blame anything, I blame writing first, acting second. Both play a role in the performance. You can still blame the direction at least since the writers or at least the directors should know if JMo is up for it and can acually pull it off. However, they could have wrote to fit Jen's acting in a bit better.

As I put it, it wasn't bad acting skills, but a type of bad acting I call misplaced acting. Her acting wasn't equating to what she was portraying, but you can't fully blame Jen. It would seem as though she had no clue what the end looked like and never gave herself any room to make a smooth adjustment. We went from Serious Emma to wooby Emma in a snap and she could have left more things ambiguous, but that's on part of the director to direct how things should be.