Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26033121-20160211071708/@comment-25926288-20160216193213

Farerb wrote: Eskaver wrote: (MOI'm not even going to do that.

Guys, Plot and character sre both important to a story as those are two of the four most important elements of the story, other than Conflict, and Setting.

Anyhow, Farerb, there was a post by another user saying that Regina looked as if she was about to protest, but didn't. That still counts for something. Regina didn't say anything, but the acting portrayed said she was about to. Should there be a little more fight in her? Yeah, but there's only so much time and the writers deemed it not important.

And no, this isn't a rant thread. This is a discussion about what was good, bad, and could Once have ended this early. I didn't go off topic, from the original post: Now it feels as though they are a cruel parody of themselves that insults fans.

Character assassination is another thing that was brought by the O.P about why the show should have ended.

I get what you're trying to say about Regina. It still isn't enough for me. That's not the Regina who cared about her son. That's still just one instance about the character assassination (Snow-Charming in 4B should I remind anyone?!).

Look, people are allowed to say what they feel. People liked 3B, people liked 321/322. That's great. I didn't. People should just deal with it, I dob't have to like what you like and people don't have to like what I like. That's what makes a disccusion interesting and alive. People should not throw at me that I dob't get what fantasy is really about or that I that my criticism is because "my ship didn't make it". Nope, you were in the realm of reasonable, but you can't go around without expecting to stand stiff and the others flexible. It's like negotiations of sorts.

Character assassination is totally fine to discuss, but there's no issue with that being brought up.

The thing is, the show can't ever go fully the way we want and we have to accept some minor things. Regina about to remark is better than Regina ignoring the debacle. You can argue they should have had an additional scene about it, but you cannot simply treat it as thoguh they never addressed it. It wasn't character assassination at all. Now, if Regina heard that Henry was hurt and continiued making crypt-ic sex, then we'd have character assassination.

We are all entitled to our opinions and that's what makes the debate fun. Now, ships.....ugh, I haven't the slightest clue why they would think you ship one thing over the other when it;s clear that you don't, but it was as I said before....on another thread, I think.

Just have a debate, but don't start tossing hammers at each other (especially across threads). If one wants to discuss the intricacy of storytelling, I'd do a separate thread as the threads tend to bleed together unintentionally.