Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160418005754/@comment-1916997-20160421050738

WilliamOliver11 wrote: For me, this episode had a lot of writing problems. Stuff comes out of nowhere, people acting stupid, rushed development because EQUALITY!, and characterizations that shouldn't work. 1: Where did Belle get the sleeping curse? Did she ever actually say?

Belle got the sleeping curse from Zelena, who must have taken it from Oz where she had used it on Dorothy.

2: Red is bi now because..... why, exactly? You expect me to believe she went 22+ years and DIDN'T show any signs of deviant sexuality?

'''Have we seen all 22+ years of Red's life on the show? I must have missed that. Also, you do realize coming to terms with your sexuality, espeically for non-heterosexual people, is a process, right?'''

3: Everyone is OK with Red bisexuality? Emma I can believe, since she lived in our world up till 2011, but everyone else lived in Midieval Times, when that was still a very big no-no. The munchkins too.

'''FTL and Oz are fictional worlds, we have no clue what stance they take on things like homosexuality. But by all appearances, no one really seems to care. After all, hatred is a learned behavior.'''

4: After one stroll through the forest, Red and Dorothy know they have "True Love?" And don't give me that "it's just like any other fairy tale" s**t, this isn't supposed to be the fairy tales. This is the real world, damnnit! They act like real world people! You don't have love in general after a single walk together, certainly not "True Love!" I've studied writing, I know how this stuff works.

The relationship was rushed, but that is true of most of the other secondary characters relationships.

5: No one's gonna point out to Belle that falling asleep doesn't ACTUALLY stop your body functions, right? Now, if she stuck with saying the sleeping curse "froze" her, I wouldn't complain. But she clearly states several times "once I'm asleep", implying the curse doesn't.

'''The curse freezes your body in time. As shown by Brennen Jones, who should have been long dead when Regina brought Killian to him.'''

I wish the writers thought out this one better. Chicken scratching David's name on was hilarious, and was a nice gesture. Ginny did great as Judy Hopps, so I can't be mad they wrote her out. But, man, just a picture in a book showing her with Neal. Not even an actuall scene. That's just cold. Your questions answered in bold above.