Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-24863788-20150528210611/@comment-25926288-20150528231705

Poor Phillip. Phillip worked harder for Aurora. It is this reason Mulan worked hard to protect Aurora. I mean journeying across lands, fighting countless battles, just to be soul-sucked by a wraith. He is a great 1-d prince for the great 1-d princess of Aurora.

I was anti-OQ once it was established. It wasn't because I shipped anyone, but because they used pixie dust as a plot device to introduce a love interest for Regina. Unlike the others which built off of a precedent or several episodes (even Snow and Charming rebuilt their relationship in season 1), OQ had one instant and then being described as hot and intense, I just did not see. All I saw was Regina missing Henry, saving Roland, yelling at Robin, crying over Snowing. That was all they built in the last year. Then they used Regina and Robin to fall in love because it's destiny! Some won't see it like that, but they confirmed they'll get together at some point without much of the work. Then it was Robin making himself cheat on his "wife" and then just seem to be some lusty and needy guy and always just left his child elsewhere while he went to go loot some women of their services. Really, hit me when they made out over Marian's corpse, just disrespectful! Then, the drunken crypt sex scene when Regina obviously said "Go home, Robin." and no. But then again, they don't understand bad sexual advances on this show, lol.

I never liked Henry (or Emma) much more than what was necessary, but a kid's side plot during 4b, just doing some pranks or something and then Henry getting caught by Cruella in 4x18 would at least have some leading up to it.

Storybrooke leads to less CGI, but the finale shows how good the EF could be. I think it's because they have so much potential in Stroybrooke, but waste it and feels trapped by unseen boundaries. The other realms are expansive and have different cultures, royalty, and legends all thrown about! What they do is perfectly fine, but one of the parts of fantasy is escaping everyday life. Emma was the real Life component into a quasi-fantasy/real? setting. No she's becoming more fantasy and less real and the real is becoming too real. No EF polotics or midwives or events besides those of the plot and those are rather tame.