Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20170924033403/@comment-1916997-20171223232857

Utter solitude wrote: I think the issue is that some people just can't be swayed from their line of thinking, no matter how much evidence is given to the contrary.

There are SQ fans who have believed it was canon/going to be canon from the first episode. So at every turn, instead of accepting that "oh, the ship I wanted isn't going to happen" they believe they're being denied because it's a gay ship/can't have main characters that are gay/etc.

The same sort of people who ask, at a con, "When is SQ gonna happen? It's in the writing, in the acting.." and then, when they're shut down by a show creator, they run to the Internet to complain about how they were ostracized. Well, that's the problem then, seeing something that isn't actually there. I (and I'm sure many other people as well) watched the show, and never saw any indication that Emma and Regina were going to be linked romantically, and I am very good at picking up when characters are being shipped and such on tv shows for both heterosexual and homosexual pairings.