Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-34657163-20180329215610/@comment-25926288-20180420135546

You know what hurts HH (if we are talking about S1): You don’t feel like the characters actually live there.

SB feels like a rather small town and so the vacuum of actually interesting people isn’t incredulous. You felt that at some point that Regina might not actually be the Evil Queen in a pantsuit, but a real problematic politician. Mr. Gold was a shady loan shark who ran a simple pawnshop and antique store. Mary Margaret actually was a teacher and avid volunteer and you never lost sight of that too long.

HH is another matter. Does Henry actually have a job? He is a Swift driver but we saw him do that once. Otherwise, he’s been doing random stuff. Does Jace have a job? I mean still as the fastfood worker? Sabine got a whole lot of luck and seem to have a functioning food truck business in a matter of weeks. I guess we see her at work more than any other character.

Like it’s getting weird to imagine more and more people having a dual memory. Forest dwelling Tremaine is somehow capable of being knowledgeable of modern fashion and running a company...well, we don’t get much to think she’s an actual good one. Samdi pops out of nowhere and is an “investor”. Does it add to his character? Nope. We never see him doing his job, characters don’t recognize his power or sway in that Naveen is awake so his farce as Drew means even less but not as little as Samdi being a business investor.

It’s the small things which make the biggest impact.