Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24055959-20131015233446/@comment-22525977-20131016163633

Does anyone else find the pixie dust/perfect match/predestined one true love thing really skeevy?

Because prior to now, even with the obvious OTL ships (Snowing, Rumbelle), there's been an effort on the part of the writers to create a backstory that explains why these characters love each other so all-consumingly. And then even with Daniel, the emotional connection he and young Regina have is real and tangible and their backstory is, if not shown, at least heavily implied.

But now we have "oh follow the magical trail of pixie dust and it will take you to your perfect match" combined with "because you didn't meet your perfect match, you ruined his life and yours," which, I don't know, it just seems icky to combine love and predestination so explicitly. It sort of removes the element of choice—there's this either/or dichotomy, where Regina goes into the tavern and meets Robin and they live happily ever after OR Regina runs away and is miserable and broken and angry for the rest of her life, plus Robin gets screwed over in this scenario too

and just, the idea that Robin's life was ruined by a person he never met, never had any kind of interaction with, and never even knew existed in anything but abstract "she's the queen" terms...

I mean I assume they're going to meet later in this season and there'll be some demonstration that they have superawesome chemistry and instant passion a la Snowing, except because of what happened in this episode it's always going to feel like "because pixie dust said so" and not "because they're compatible people," especially since Regina will see the tattoo and for the majority of their relationship, she's going to be thinking about how he's her pixie-dust-guaranteed perfect match.