Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20151007195419/@comment-25926288-20151128011636

P3nathan wrote: Honestly, my hype for the next few episodes has gone through the floor. Especially after seeing the latest preview with Emma tied up on the sofa with her sad face on. So much for the Dark Swan... instead we get Relapse Action Figure Hook. But I see the fangirls are already foaming at the mouth over it and of course that's what's important. Meanwhile we have a whiny Emma who just wanted to do the right thing for her twue wuv. Should've known they wouldn't let her be straight up evil and badass. Seriously, she's lame; I'm actually embarassed for her. "Most powerful Dark One of all" my ass; Belle is more threatening at this point!

"Captain Dark One"... URGH.

I hate that there is more than one dark one and that the power can just be shared now, that makes being The Dark One far less cool in my opinion. Also we've now got Hook, Arthur and Nimue as antagonists and we've seen before what happens when Once tries to balance multiple villains. Anyway, I'll finish the arc, but at the moment I'm feeling the same way I did watching Charmed season 5- watching it out of curiosity more than genuine enjoyment. Yep, at those fangirls foaming at the mouth over Hook and his rise in prominence over the next several episodes. Didn't you know? It was never about Emma. It was always about Hook's man pain and his angst.

The DO stuff I sort of expected (Kidding, I had high hopes) but I was aware I might not like what they would do. Their track record shows that anything cool and sinister gets diluted and trivialized, like the Dark Curse, like realm jumping, and Emma's real world experience (which apparently was so Fairytaled involved).

As I said in my JMO post on this thread, it appears as JMO prepared for something more serious than what it turned out to be.

Multiple antagonists have always occured in Once so it's not really new. (Except season 3) Emma was a main character and I knew wasn't the vilain. It was the DO (or in this case Nimue). Arthur was the minor antagonist that they usually have. Hook is more of a bridge into next arc.