Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25896389-20160501123222/@comment-27885419-20160509185212

Up until season 3, I didn't much hate any ship, except SwanFire and even that wasn't downright 'hate'. Found Outlaw Queen too rushed.

Then season 4 happened and brought me loads of disappointments and hates. I ended up hating RumBelle, Zelena-as-Marian messed up Outlaw Queen, and Captain Swan got too mushy. My liking for Captain Swan survived, the others didn't.

My least favourite ship right now is RumBelle. Ironically, 'Skin Deep' was one of my favourite episodes(but yeah, season 1 had loads of good ones). Reason being that since season 4, the crack in their relationship became clear, because Rumple was keeping secrets from Belle. Why did he need to? Because if Belle knew what he was up to, she'll be dead against it. Here surfaces a simple compatibility issue that is enough to make me conclude it'll never work out. Belle, the sweet, kind, goody-two-shoes Belle, fell in love with the 'man behinfpd the beast' and would accept him if and only if he gave up being the beast. It's tale as old as time, true love's kiss turns the beast back into a prince, but this beast doesn't want to be changed. And hence the issue, Rumple can't give up the beast, Belle can't accept the beast. Hence, this ship will either undergo an endless vicious cycle, or break apart completely, unless one of them decides to change their basic principle.

My second least favorite would be SwanFire. Reason being that Neal is... well, Neal. He just has this extremely careless air about him that I cannot stomach in a major character, especially someone opposite Emma. Emma sought love and to not face abandonment, and that is something I doubt if Neal could promise. Their relationship was more of a teenage fantasy, living in a stolen car, living on whatever they could get by petty thievery. That life had thrill, freedom, and love too, and I understand why it appealed to Emma. Which is why it I didn't like it. And of course, when August shows up, he's suddenly deciding Emma's life along with the perfect stranger, choosing to forever scar her with his betrayal than stay with her. I also didn't like the fact that he claimed that if he knew who she was he'd never have gotten close to her, because he seeks simplicity and normalcy in life, something that's seemingly a no-no in Emma's fate. And it makes me wonder if it was a catalyst in his decision. Then after a decade gap when they meet again, Neal is engaged to Tamara, Emma doubts her, Neal says she's jealous. That's way to go in being self-centric, they dated a decade ago for god's sake! Then Tamara turns out to be a conniving bitch, Neal pseudo-dies, and once he's saved he suddenly feels like he's in the line for Emma again. Talk about rushing things. More or less, SwanFire as a teenage fling in Emma's history is fine, but as an actual adult relationship, I doubt if it would have worked out.