Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20160117120623/@comment-26159109-20160117123313

Here are my thoughts:

1. Snow White and Price Charming's story was so great in season 1, I liked how they met (103, not 321/322), and what they had to go through in order to be together - an arranged and loveless engagement, a ruthless king, an evil queen, a love forgetting potion, a sleeping curse, the dark curse. The universe wanted them apart and they still managed to be together.

2. Alice and Cyrus's story was great as well. Like Snow and Charming, it seems like there were forces that wanted to keep them apart, but they kept fighting in order to be together. The scene where they're at the boiling sea is one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the entire show (both of them). I think they have the most successful love story mainly because they are the only couple that the writers didn't have a chance to ruin.

3. Will and Anastasia's story is beautiful as well. It was refreshing to see a tale where love wasn't enough, which brought them depth and new kind of heartbreak and realism. What's interesting about them that the others don't really have is that what kept them apart is themselves, they wanted things that the other couldn't give them that, the realization that they made mistakes and what they really wanted is to be together is really great and it was really sad to see them happy for a moment just for that moment to be taken away.

4. Emma and Neal's is another sad story, one that will always be that way. They had a lot of potential that ultimately didn't amount to anything, unfortunately.

5. Rumplestiltskin and Belle - I actually liked them in seasons 2-3 when he actually cared about her and her willingness to fight for him and support him didn't make her seem week, because back then Rumple's heart was true and everything he did was for the people he loved.