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P3nathan wrote: i'm not knocking the acting ability of the guy they chose for Zeus. In the brief moment we saw him, I thought he was fine. But seriously, he looked like he didn't have time to shower because he was already late for chess club and promised his mother he'd be home by 8. I'm not generally that bothered about the characters being really close to the source material in terms of appearance, but I can't help but think they could have tried a little harder on this one. Even if he's only in one scene, this guy is supposed to be king of the gods, he should make some sort of impression.

As for Rumple, I get that he's meant to be behind everything, but to be honest that's just another reason I'm starting to wish he'd been left in 3A. Maybe they could've done a big dramatic ressurection of him for the final season. Because let's face it, if we do get to the final season and Rumple has a big evil scheme to end the show, it's probably just going to feel like any other arc at this point.

It's like at the start of 5A with the memory erasing; you had lots of people rolling their eyes, because yeah that was a staple of the show, but you can only see the same thing so many times before it gets annoying. Especially when we're in a situation where a god is the big bad of the arc, but they get reduced to dust without a fight so that we can go back to Rumple, again.

But then, I guess that's a bigger issue... this show is probably too attached to the status quo. At the end of 5A, we were back to the status quo and here we are again in 5B. That's why you can kill Robin off, because he doesn't really effect that. Problem is, do I need to watch the same thing  repeated in 6A and 6B, which seems highly likely? I'm not so sure. That's my frustration beyond any shipping drama or character regression... any time it seems like they're trying something new, they go "psych!" and it's deja vu all over again. It will happen until the final arc.