Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151231135805

In this article, you get a decent evaluation of Once and several fan comments which tend to give you a wide array of perspectives.

Now, I'll say I at first disagreed with Article's opinion of Once, but I realized that they are right in a way. Their main claims were that:

1) Jennifer Morrison's acting was bad. At first glance, you would say either yes or no without really thinking about it. However, I see that their are degrees of bad acting. There is "out-of-touch" acting which Evil Queen is prone to do in flashbacks in The New Neverland and Swan Song where its a bit removed from the typical EQ acting we saw before. There is disinterested acting aka "phoned in" acting which is what many saw Rumple as in season 4, in which is seemd as if Bobby didn't show as much interest in Rumple in certain scenes. Then there is misplaced acting, which is what JMo was guilty of. She prepared for a role that wasn't in the cards...ahem, the writing. But acting skills are not alone in performance because writing plays the other half of the spectrum.

2) Camelot storyline was boring. Merida was a disappointment. I take this to mean the flashbacks and scenes concerning all main characters not named Emma. This I can agree with and many of us can possibly agree. Most of the cast weren't really doing anything. The Camelot crew was sort of forgotten and when there was excited hype there was lackluster payoff on one of the prime elements of Once: The Dark Ones. Merida was decent in flashback but flopped like a fish out of water in SB.

Never before have I heard and read so much disdain for a plot arc or season half as this current one. More was built each season, but this seemed to be the tipping point of many being almost "unwatchable" as TVFanatic puts it.

Agree, disagree, your opinion on the article? 